Anyone who knows me knows I rarely take time off. However this year I vowed to take some time, recharge and be ready for the new year. Hence why this post is late and will be my last till the new year. I which everyone a happy holiday and will leave with you one small gift. A tool that can help you find phone numbers called…

So day 2 Breakout session 3, included “How to Source Slack” by Angela Bortolussi, and Abracadabra! The Magic of Excel” By Aaron Daniels and Cyndy Davis  .

First up “How to Source Slack” by Angela Bortolussi. It starts out with explaining more about slack and what it is used for. Things like Slack Etiquette, do’s and don’ts come next. The on to…

So day 2 Breakout session 2, included “Apocalypse Now:Linkedin Down” by Chris Horon and Holly Mallowes,  “Fight Spam” by Allison Kruse and Glen Cathey, and “Sourcing Data is Impact Data” by Scott Sherman.

First up “Apocalypse Now:Linkedin Down” by Chris Horon and Holly Mallowes. It starts out going through were you are finding candidates,…

So day 2 Breakout session, included “Gaining a Competitive Advantage from Competitive Intelligence” by Gelnn Gutmacher and Monali Palmer, “Candidate Career Problems” By Shannon Anderson, and “Sourcing and Personal Branding” by Craig Fisher.

First up “Gaining a Competitive Advantage from Competitive Intelligence” by Gelnn Gutmacher and Monali Palmer.…

Veterans Day 2016 a special and weird day!!

Veterans day 2016 a day that is very special as is all Veterans days. Veterans day is a day where we do honor to those who have fought for the freedoms we all enjoy.

This Veterans day carries a very weird addition to it, as it follows…

So day 2 Roundtables, was an opportunity for people to sit down with other Sourcers and either discuss specific topics, or learn from the host of the table.  Some of the topics of the tables were; Facebook Sourcing, Linkedin Sourcing, Diversity Sourcing, Sourcing Tools, Basic Boolean, and more.

Since I was running one of the tables I could not…

So day 2 main sessions, included “Learn From your Mistakes” by Jenny DeVaughn and “From E! To Google: Missteps, Metrics and Methods” by Maisha Cannon.

First up “Learn From your Mistakes” by Jenny DeVaughn.  This was about Branding, and focused on learning from past mistakes, and about being the type of person you want to be. IT also focuses on…

So day 1 Breakout Session Part 3 is here. This is also the 5 post in the series. The Breakouts fall into one of three categories; Candidate Identification (CI), Candidate Engagement (CE), and Marketing and Branding(MB).

First up was Guprit Bhambra “Secrets to Market Mapping your way to Success”. She starts out going through a list of sources of data,…

So day 1 Breakout Session Part 2 is here. The Breakouts fall into one of three categories; Candidate Identification (CI), Candidate Engagement (CE), and Marketing and Branding(MB).

First up Megan Calimbas “Avoiding Search Failure”, basically she makes it clear that research comes first. You need to know the who, what, when, where, why, and how…

Fall Sourcecon 2016 Day 1-Breakout Sessions 1

So day 1 Breakout Session Part 1 is here. The Breakouts fall into one of three categories; Candidate Identification (CI), Candidate Engagement (CE), and Marketing and Branding(MB).

First up Kerri Mills with 6 Secrets to Sourcing like a Grandmaster under the…

The first Keynote was Bryan Chaney-Weird Science: Turning Talent attraction into Sourcing Success. Now for me when I saw Weird Science the move from the 70s came to mind. Obviously that is not the same thing but it did bring a smile to my face.

So Bryan started of with the career Decision Making Process.

Step 1-considering a change

Step…

As you can imagine the start of Sourcecon is always huge. This year the start of Fall Sourcecon was the Happy Hour. This is a great opportunity to meet and great everyone. To discuss sourcing, what sessions you want or should attend and just kick things off. Over the next weeks I will be going over all the sessions, Keynotes and more. Providing a…

Sourcecon Fall 2016!!

As most of you know Sourcecon Fall 2016 is coming in Anaheim on Sept 21-23. I am involved in numerous events and such and hope to see everyone…

So there seems to be a lot of interesting thoughts on years of experience for skills. I see things like Senior with 6+ years of experience. Okay great but just because someone has 6 years of experience versus say someone with 3 does not mean the 6 years is better. It really comes down to skills and knowledge. For example I know a person who has about…

Stackoverflow is a coding repository, were people keep their code, projects and more. Now  Stackoverflow is well known in the staffing world. And a lot of recruiters try to source there, but many struggle. 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…

Coderbits is a place where developers and designers can keep their portfolios. Now the interesting par tis very few recruiters go here to search. 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…

Scribd is a digital library of books, comics, magazines and more. This includes resumes. Now the interesting par tis very few recruiters go here to search. The reason is simple they do nto 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…

Coderwall is a space for tech's most talented makers to connect, share, build, and be inspired Coderwall is not well known in the staffing community and few have tried to source in it. 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…

Combining the tools that works to work better!!!

There are a lot of tools out there that can help you source. Recruiters as a whole are good at using them individually, however they rarely look at combining these tools. Today I am going to explain how combining these tools can do even more. We are…

This is my account of Day 2 “The Afternoon” of Talent 42 2016.

To start off we had Justin Thenutai of Microsoft speaking on “How Microsoft Elevates Recruiting Performance with Market Intelligence”. Long story short it is on how to understand Market Trends to predict supply and demand to help in staffing planning. They use a lot of…