In part 4 of my Sourcecon posts, we will discuss the things that came from the George Bool track and general sessions. We will deal with day 2 in this post.

Leading off day 2 of the George Bool and the general session was Stacy Zapar. Stacy spoke a lot about 2007 and how things were then, a lot of job boards etc. Then she talks about the intake meeting…

In part 3 of my Sourcecon posts we will discuss the things that came from the George Bool track and general sessions. We will deal with day 1 in this post.

The opening of Sourcecon saw Jim Stroud do his thing. He spoke about Facebook and the stats that go with it, how Facebook has a massive global reach over 7 billion worldwide as of June 2016. Despite…

In part 2 of my Sourcecon posts we will discuss the things that came from the Anonymous Track.

From Jim Schnyder’s Leveraging Linked Recruiter we gain the following tips, tricks or tools: Knowledge of the LIR premium insights, Search insights, Visual Capture ability, Competitive intel, and more. We learned about the LIR CRM capabilities, notes,…

Post Sourcecon Fall 2017 PT1

So Fall Sourcecon 2017 has come and gone and as you might expect it was awesome. Lots of great presentations which I will go over sin the coming weeks. The Location was great, we pretty much had the hotel to our selves. There were 5 tracks and the General sessions this year as they added a track for…

As most of you know Sourcecon Fall 2017 is coming in Austin, Tx on September March 25-27. The theme “Real People. Real Sorucing. Back to Reality.” I am involved in numerous events and such and hope to see everyone there. This years Sourcecon is going to be different…

Amazon Web Services (AWS)is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies and governments, on a paid subscription basis with a free-tier option available for 12 months. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without…

I am taking a break from my series on lesser sites, to write this post because of a few interactions I have had over the last week or so with “sourcers”. These interactions led me to wonder what is wrong with sourcers these days.

I have been contacted several times, by sourcers asking me were they could look for certain niche skills. I…

Code Guru  is where developers can come to share ideas, articles, questions, answers, tips, tricks, comments, downloads, and so much more related to development and programming..  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…

Stack Exchange is  a network of question-and-answer websites on topics in varied fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a …

Gitlab  is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and …

Academia.edu is a social networking site for academics. The platform is used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow research. 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…

Well Talent42 2017 has come and gone, and it was spectacular. 2 days of speakers covering the entire spectrum of the Staffing Lifecycle.

This is part 3 of my give back on Talent 42 2017.

So I decided here to end this give back series with a listing of the tools talked about during the conference. So here we go:

Email Qualifier,…

Well Talent42 2017 has come and gone, and it was spectacular. 2 days of speakers covering the entire spectrum of the Staffing Lifecycle.

This is part 1 of my give back on Talent 42 2017. First up “Tech Skills for 2021 by Scott Ruthfield”.

The long story short here is a few things

1.The Cloud

2.Machine…

Well, Talent42 2017 has come and gone, and it was spectacular. 2 days of speakers covering the entire spectrum of the Staffing Lifecycle. This is just a general overview with a full breakdown to follow. So subjects ranged from interviewing, contacting candidates, the future, Best Practices, Tools galore, Using Data, Leadership track, Talent Advisor track, AI…

The 4^th of July is the biggest date in the history of our country. It is the day we became a FREE, new nation. It is a date that we as Americans should hold sacred because it is the date when we actually became Americans. While we celebrate this significant event and date lets also remember those that fought so hard and not only opened the…

So a lot has been posted and shared about the updated user agreement for Linkedin (LI). Mainly about the use of tools, extensions etc. Reactions have varied from oh well who cares I am going to do what I do. To Oh, know I am not using any tools, or extension (ext) on any place anymore. This post is not about this but I will address it a little. Long story…

Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos. It was the first video sharing site to support high-definition video. Vimeo was founded in November 2004 by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry…

Y Combinator is an American Seed Accelerator started in 2005.  Now of course that does not explain why you might want to source there, Well the site offers a lot of news and articles, as well as resources and a robust community. Now as we have learned if someone is talking about or writing about a topic they are usually well versed in it. So if they write an article…

Back in February of 2015 I did a blog that was on recruiting tools about 4 free Boolean Builders. They included “Linkedin Custom Search Engine”, Jobvention Boolean builder (no longer around as Jobvention, Colleague Boolean Builder also nor around as it was,…

BrandYourself is the only free do-it-yourself product that empowers you to control what people find when they Google you. . BrandYourself  is not well known in the staffing world. And 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…