Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, George Boole Sessions. There were 3 George Boole sessions on Day 2.  

First up Allison Kruse and using Social Engineering to influence others. In this session, the main take away is the Establishing Rapport in 10 steps section. Here are the steps; 1-Establish artificial time constraints, meaning respect others time,…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, Anonymous  Sessions. The 2 sessions I will talk about are; Candidate Personas by Susanna Frazier and May Day, May Day!! Linkedin DOWN!! By Mike Chuidian.

First up Susanna Frazier and Candidate Personas, This subject starts with research, and then finding, and then contacting, and since we are about the tools, here…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 2, General Sessions. There were 5 general session on Day 2.  

First up; Jessica Clark on Social Engineering. A lot of this is serious social engineering and influencing.  She speaks about Maslaw’s Hierarchy of needs which include starting at the top of the pyramid; Self Actualization(inner Fulfillment), Esteem(Self Worth),…

Sourcecon Spring 2018 day 1 consisted of 2 presentations; Trust but Verify by Jim Schnyder and Brian Mork, and Tools for the Social Detective by me.

 In the first presentation Jim and Brian purpose the question who does it better a Sourcer or a Hacker. Now being both I found this interesting. Some of the sites, tools and methods talked about were;…

This will be the start of the Spring Sourcecon share back. Lots of great stuff. The share back will come in the form of 1 post per track and there are 6 tracks. I will be focusing on tips, tools and such. Now the theme was Social Engineering which means a lot of Social, OSINT, and hacking stuff. We even had Real hackers, as well as the fact several us our…

As a norm People Aggregators simply aggregate information found on the web into one profile or place. However some do way more than just that, and in this post , we will tell you about a few.

Hiretual for example when you are on Github uses advanced AI to grade a persons code. On Linkedin it lets you know if they might be looking, their salary and…

Guest Writer Jeremy Da Costa

There are 2 categories of tools out there. Email finding and People Aggregating. The difference is Email finding only finds emails and usually work. People aggregators find jail, as well as profile data and social sites.

Email finding tools are fairly…

As most of you know Sourcecon Spring 2018 is coming in Las Vegas on Feb 26^th to Feb 28th. The theme “The Name is SourceCon. SourceCon Royale”. I am involved in numerous events and such and hope to see everyone there. This years Sourcecon is going to be different then others in the past.…

Bloomberg is a site that delivers business and market news, data and such. 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 x-raying. 

So to source within Bloomberg you simply need…

Over the last several weeks we have covered all the parts of the “Sourcing Methodology”. We went over a boat load of tools, all of which can help you do your jobs. Tools such as; Owler, SEC, Bloomberg, Talismatic, Insightly, rethinlabs, paysa, LInkedin, Crowded for research. Hiretual, Bool, CSEs, Social Talent, Seekout, HiringSolved, ZenSourcer, ICwatch for sourcing.…

Sourcing Methodology Part 5 – Outreach!!

This is part 5 of the Methodology, Outreach. In part 4 we talked about Enhancement, now that we have that done, and of course uploaded our list to our ATS or CRM, it’s time to reach out.

So this has 2 parts; 1- creating a good message/email, 2-methodology of reaching…

This is part 4 of the Methodology, Enhancement. In part 3 we talked about Scraping, now that we have that done it’s time to Enhance the results.

For the purposes of this methodology Enhancement means finding more info, such as; emails, phone, social sites, etc.

Obviously, there are many methods to enhancement. For example a boolean string “persons name”…

This is part 3 of the Methodology, Sourcing. In part 2 we talked about Sourcing, now that we have that done it’s time to Scrape the results.

Scraping is the act of getting the info from one source to a reusable, and mobile source such as a CSV, Txt, Excel etc. Doing this makes it easy to upload to your ATS or CRM as well as use tools to enhance the…

This is part 2 of the Methodology, Sourcing. In part 1 we talked about Research, now that we have that done it’s time to Source. So regardless of where you source, you need to understand one of the recruiter languages, Boolean, Symantec, and or Natural Language. Each has their place in the sourcing world.

Boolean is where it starts; it allows you to find thing…

Prior to the Holidays I gave the intro to this series were we will cover a sourcing methodology. Now keep in mind this is a “Readers Digest” version, which means it is going to be short and sweet. So we will began were all good sourcing strategies and methodologies must start – Research. The idea is to gather as much data as we can to create a Persona of the ideal…

So we are going to take a break on our series on lesser sites, to start a miniseries on a Sourcing Methodology, I use that has been very successful. This will be the last post of 2017 so the series will begin in 2018, however, I will lay the groundwork here.

The Methodology is pretty simple, Research-Source-Scrape(or download), Enhance and…

Skill should trump years of experience

Years of Experience. Why are we so caught up on years of experience? It does not mean more skillful, it does not mean better, all it means is they may have been doing it longer. Yet time and time again managers and recruiters…

In part 7 of my Sourcecon posts we will discuss the things that came from the Shelly Sandberg track. 

First up Ben Gotkin and Sourcing Metrics Working Session. At the beginning was nan introduction to ATAP which is the Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals. A great organization trying to standardize things within the staffing world. This…

Post Sourcecon Fall 2017 PT6

In part 5 of my Sourcecon posts we will discuss the things that came from the Purple Squirrel Track.

First up is Finding the Human inside your Client by Jeff Newman. The basics of this presentation is to get to know your hiring managers, both on a personal level and professional as it will make…

In part 5 of my Sourcecon posts we will discuss the things that came from the Programing track and general sessions.

So Steven Jiang of Hiretual spoke about creating a chrome extension, He gave an easy overview of a chrome ext. Then He spoke about HTML, CSS, and JS. He gave a link to source code you can download at…