Maureen Sharib's Blog – October 2008 Archive (22)

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classes Week of October 27, 2008

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, October 30, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"Sites and search engines don't like spiders." ~Jason Gorham

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8:56am Maureen Sharib Good morning sourcers - Jason Gorham is going to lead the noon (EST) chat today. He'll be answering question about his new Sharkstrike tool on how to find MORE passive candidates. He'll be presenting on the utilization of keywords +… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 31, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Today's MagicMethod Sourcing Classroom Chat...NEW TOOL

On Thursday, October 30 Sharkstrike's CEO Jason Gorham will be presenting on the utilization of keywords + search strings to source more candidates. In this session he will take open job orders and utilize his new tool to source on potential candidates. In this classroom chat you can learn:

How Sharkstrike Keyword Tool can find more candidates

Creation of keyword campaigns

Selection of… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 30, 2008 at 9:36am — No Comments

Wondering when it was going to end?

Winding Back the Clocks

The first week in November marks the end of a long, twisting road. Oh, right, and the elections are next week, too.

The longest Daylight Saving period in American history ends Sunday, Nov. 1, when all states except for Hawaii, most of Arizona, and parts of Indiana will dial back the clock one hour. In optimistic… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 30, 2008 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

WANTED: Volunteers to run sourcing classes

If you have an area of sourcing that you're particularly proficient in and would like some exposure for your process(es) please consider being one of the sourcing leaders leading discussion on the Tuesday and Thursday MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat series.

Send me a brief synopsis of what you'd like to cover and I'll set it into a Sourcing Class Schedule… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 28, 2008 at 6:34am — 2 Comments

LOOK UP, LEFT Love Love LOVE the Hard Day's Night video!

It's just fab-yu-lous!

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

How is a truly great job description crafted?

Bryan Chaney from Reaching Talent asks a good question over on LinkedIn about using marketing principles to craft more compelling job description:

How is a truly great job description crafted?

Take a look and submit your entries (there or here). This is for educational purposes, but feel free to have fun with this question. Where have you… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 8:56am — No Comments

What's In a Title?

What looks to be an interesting topic of discussion is posed by Peter Coussement CAPM, Project Manager at Volvo IT over on LinkedIn - he asks:

Which corporations have the most strict hierarchy in the US and Europe? Some examples? Funny stories of what you have experienced with hierarchy in the US and Europe?

The answers are starting to come in… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 8:06am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thurs, 10/23/08 SOURCING TOOLS

Best Remark of the Day

"Actually I have made a lot more as a full time name sourcer than I ever did as a recruiter and the $$ are much more consistent." ~ Tom Cook

11:57am Maureen Sharib Have you all read the LinkedIn sourcing tools… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 7:25am — No Comments

Phone Sourcing Class Today - TOOLS Discussion

There's an open question over on LinkedIn that asks: What are some innovative sourcing tools that are effective? What are some new and innovative tools that you may found online or offline that seem to be most effective when sourcing quality candidates - passive or active? Also, how do you effectivley approach your sourcing in terms of using more than one tool at the same time? For example, integrating tools and sourcing methods together (not… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 23, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Sourcing Chat TODAY

SunMicro is firing and then hiring - an ERE post yesterday reported that SunMicro let all their recruiters and sourcers go and then told them to re-apply (if they still wanted to work there) and that they would be "reconsidered" according to skills. I wonder what the re-hire "terms"will be?

"Sun has announced the need to reduce overall spending in its fiscal year 2009, including a reduction in headcount."

Read more… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 21, 2008 at 7:48am — No Comments

Hoovers (TechTrak Group) Pro-Plus Yearly Subscription

There are four seats left on our Hoovers* Group subscription for any of you TechTrak affiliates for the year just starting...

Bob sent out renewal notices (a couple of them) earlier this year and most of you re-subscribed but a few did not so we have FOUR open seats if anyone is interested!

This is ONE GREAT DEAL for the ProPlus subscription!

If you need additional information email Bob at bob at techtrak.com or call him at 513 899 9628.

*Hoover's is… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 20, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Be the Deliberate Creator of Your Life

1. Commit to building a "prosperity" mindset

2. Adopt the beliefs of success

3. Be clear on what you want

4. Clear away any opposing beliefs

5. Take inspired action not frantic action

When you are proactive, you don't focus on what the economy or the market is doing, you are coming from an internal state of prosperity consciousness. You don't look to outer conditions to determine your state of mind, you determine your own… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 19, 2008 at 9:10am — No Comments

Recruiting (Sourcing?) Ads That Get Attention

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." Not much of a sell job is it? Nevertheless, when this ad was run by the polar explorer, Ernest Shackelton, men started walking across England to get to him. More than 5,000 applied.

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Need telephone names sourcing to fill your hard-to-fill positions? Call the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 19, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

FREE Sourcing Cheat Sheet and FREE Food - Beat that!

Dan Harris of NetApps is presenting at the Silicon Valley Roadshow and he'll be giving away his sourcing cheat sheet. Don't miss Dan - this is a guy you can't help but like!

It's FREE and they're giving away FREE food as well!

All you have to do is show up. You can do that, can't you?

Here are the information… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 17, 2008 at 10:10am — No Comments

Questions You Should Ask a Sourcer

On Tuesday's MagicMethod Class chat we got to talking about what questions one should ask a sourcer that one was contemplating hiring. Following are the suggestions:

Paul Davenport Cyber Sourcing is getting less and less expensive to companies because many are off shoring or… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 16, 2008 at 9:09am — 1 Comment

New Products Sourcers Might Consider Offering

12:15pm Maureen Sharib I asked this morning about new products we sourcers might offer in this downturn...

12:16pm Todd Burkhardt sales leads

12:16pm Maureen Sharib as you can all see - I used Dan's idea from last week and created a new TechTrak product - FindOut! out of it...already I've had ONE inquiry! It’s a product that updates a customer’s database.

12:16pm Todd Burkhardt organizational benchmarking

12:16pm Paul Davenport… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 16, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Are you a namby-pamby sourcer?

When I first started sourcing a dozen or so years ago I remember the namby-pambiness of my sourcing. Afraid to rock the boat, I shied away from asking too many questions of my information sources, afraid I’d hear something that I didn’t want to hear. If I was on a trail I didn’t want that trail to end in a dead-end or even be broken. In the early days, I heard what I wanted to hear!

Soon I came to realize this wasn’t going to cut the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 15, 2008 at 5:00am — No Comments

Today is Phone Sourcing Class

Today is the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat over on the MagicMethod network at noon (EST). This week's topic is related to the last few business development discussions - we'll be searching for new products sourcers can offer to help their customers in these changing and challenging times. Please come here at noon (EST).

Did you know MagicMethod phone sourcing class has been in session since… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 14, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

Persistence

“I took your course but to tell you the truth, I just don’t have the TIME to do what you do,” the caller explained, almost apologetically, before asking if I had time to take on some more work. She then went on to describe her long background in recruiting, admitting in the tale that it has always been the front-end part of the job, the sourcing, that she has never really been comfortable with. Not only did she find it awkward, she explained, she also… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 11, 2008 at 10:30am — 1 Comment

American History Lessons

Interesting American History series here.

The Great Depression

"Now let's be frank. You and I know that immediate relief of the unemployed is the immediate need of the hour." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (referring to… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 11, 2008 at 9:24am — No Comments