Snipplr lets your store and share all of your commonly used pieces of code and HTML with other programmers and designers. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true…

Codecall  is a community for Developers were you can learn new things, and post question to get answers. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, a simple search with some…

Bytes.com is a community for Developers and IT Professionals. Join 423044 members and discuss topics such as software development, networking, security, and more. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out…

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community is an online IT message board. The website initially gained attention amongst the vBulletin community for its unique method of building an entire site, including proprietary …

Code Project is a community for computer programmers with articles on different topics and programming languages such as web development, software development, C++, Java, and other topics. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag…

The term Listserv (written by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of such software, which allows a sender to send…

Docdroid is a site that delivers access to a lot of documents and is a site for uploading and converting documents to and from PDF.  Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool,…

Google Docs is a site that delivers access to Googles version of Office.  Word processor, spreadsheet and more. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called…

This is the third post in my series on the 2018 Talent 42. I will focus on the session by Dror Kaga of Ebay on “leveraging Recruiting to Drive Change “

Not any tools on this one so much as explain that if you use the info you gather while researching the positions you are looking for, you can affect change. Think about it, that change can be nothing…

This is the second post in my series on the 2018 Talent 42. I will focus on the session by Adam Ward on Talent advising.  This starts with a lot of talk about incumbents and a thought about busting the Funnel and how to build your credibility as a Talent Advisor. Traits you need are; being Curious, Time Management, Research about your competition, Being…

This is the first post in my series on the 2018 Talent 42. I will focus on the tables and the tools. Some of the speakers were; Mark Tortorici, Dean Da Costa, Aaron Daniels, Paired Sourcing, Shami Marangwanda, Recruiting Toolbox, Amybeth Quinn. Susanna Frazier and more. 

Tools mentioned:

Github, Amazing Hiring, Awesome Autocomplete for Github,…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 3, Sheryl Sandberg Sessions.

First up a panel discussion on diversity with Glenn Gutmacher. Lost of talk on veteran and veteran spouse hiring. 72% of student veterans succeed compared to 62% of nonserving students. The overall message here is getting buy-in, work hard, and think outside the box to find and hire diverse…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 3, Purple Squirrel Programmers Sessions.

First up Mike Rasmussen; Building  Your Talent Bench, before you need it: Sourcing for Pipelines. The big message here is, stop being a reactive recruiter, and be a proactive recruiter. Process is simple: 1-get a sense of your hiring forecast, 2-Analyze your organizations top 5…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 3, Programmers Sessions.

First up Morgan Allen and how to get started with automating your job!! So first you need to figure out what you are trying to solve for. One of the example she uses is some LI functions. Now first please keep in mind that when dealing with LI you need to be careful as you could violate their…

I wrote this blog about a year ago, but given LI is at it again it seemed appropriate to report it. 

Okay Okay, I get it. LinkedIn (LI) Changed its agreement, and everyone is in full on panic mode. Heck, some are even saying no more using tools or extensions at all. Well first off slow down, take a breath and relax. What did they really do? They said there are…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 3, General Sessions.

First up Aaron Lintz Conference List Gold. Aaron talks about getting conference list utilizing tools such as Google Search Console, Eventbrite, and Lanyrd, Postman, Fiddler, Burpsuite, Wireshark, ZAP, PacketCapture for Android. This technique is very technical and way to hard to explain in one post.…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 3, Anonymous  Sessions.

First up Greg Hawkes and Breaking the Vault: Sourcing Tools and Techniques to Unlock Candidate Information. THE BEST TOOL IS YOUR BRAIN!! TOOLS: Search is Back, Board and registration sites, Google Scholar, Bizstanding, Trustoria, Instagram, CSEs, Meetup, Angel List, F6S, UpWork, Listserv, Sched.com,…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Sheryl Sandburg Sessions.

First up Cathy Neal and High-Impact Strategies for Sourcing leaders. So challenges over 75 Billion Baby Boomers are reaching retirement age. Huge Talent Shortage. Talk about metrics, rule of them; Measure what is measurable and makes sense.

Next up Heather Flynn and How to attract…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Purple Squireel Sessions.

First up Angie Verros- Band Mates Wanted. In this session, Angie talks about attracting top talent and the war for talent. She talks about first impressions, messaging, keeping it real, being unique, and more. TOOLS; Canned responses, and Clinch.

Next up is Tangie Pettis – were in…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Programmers Sessions.

First up Chris Comrie Hot to Build Community to get Candidates. Lots of talk about Social Sites such as; Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. TOOLS; AWS, Linkedin Helper, Dux Soup, Follow Liker, Facebook Auto Finder. Six steps to build communities. 1-Build Customer Avatars, 2-Establish…