On Veterans Day it’s time to help those who allow us the freedoms we have!!

So here on Veterans Day, it is a must that we respect,…

iMetaSearch a metasearch that does more!!

We have all heard of Meta search engines and what they do. Here is a Metsearch engine that does…

Be a free thinker!!

Be a free thinker.. stop looking for something wrong and look for something right. For some reason it has become prevalent for staffing professionals (SP), and hiring managers (HM) to look at resumes and candidates trying to find something wrong, Trying to find a reason not to talk. Here is an idea try…

Search IM, yes big brother is reading!!!

Yes big brother is reading. There is a tool called Search IM which allows you to search Instant Messages profiles. You can search IM Profiles from Skype, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, and MSN or all of them. Its simple you…

Tweetadder is more than just adding twitter followers it’s a sourcing tool !!!

So Tweet adder is a tool designed to make it easier for you to increase your followers, send out tweets at specific times, find followers and more. While this is all great, for me as…

Sourcecon 2013: Building a Global Sourcing Team: Making the Business Case for Sourcing

This Session was on making a case for creating a global sourcing team. Melissa Harper of Monsanto ran this session. One of the key slides of this presentation…

This Session was on Competitive Intelligence (CI) and was ran by Michelle Geocaris, one of the very best  and most knowledgeable CI people I know.

First she defines CI as “The action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing Intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in…

Sourcecon 2013: CV Sourcing Tool

This Session was on a CV Sourcing Tool and was ran by Scott Simmons of Groupon.

Having seen this before I still found it interesting, Everyone knows that sourcers have to constantly make search strings, and most for some reason do not keep…

Sourcecon 2013: 4 Resources for Searching Twitter

Amybeth Hale, "The Research Goddess" brought the audience to on a journey as she shared her most favorite twitter sourcing tools.

During the session she talked about a few tools that I feel the need to mention so that recruiters that may…

Sourcecon 2013: Turbocharge Your Front-End Talent Sourcing Efforts for (Nearly) Free

This Session was on resources for searching and sourcing.

Glenn Gutmacher one of the top sourcers in the country ran this session. He spoke at first about which you would rather do; buy expensive software, use inexpensive tools or build it…

Sourcecon 2013: Creating a Self-Sustaining Sourcing Team

The Session was about creating a self-sustaining sourcing team. Mark Tororici ran this session, and started it in a very interesting way. “First the good News” which was the market for sourcers and recruiters is hot. You can imagine the cheers on that one. Of course if there is good…

Sourcecon 2013: The State of Sourcing – 2013

To start off Sourceon, we had a “state of Sourcing” by Sourcecon Editor Jeremy Roberts. In this session he talks about the characteristics of a sourcer in 2003 and compares that to how the role has evolved and is today.  In 2003 sourcers…

Sourcecon 2013: Five Easy Steps to Building Winning Boolean Search Strings

The Session was a Boolean operator/search string 101. John Childs who ran the session went through the most common operators; AND, OR, wild cards, and more.

Johns 5 step…

SourceCon Seattle 2013: An interview with Glenn Gutmacher

While I was at SourceCon in Seattle, I had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the top sourcing professionals in the country, Glenn Gutmacher, to discuss SourceCon, sourcing and more.

Dean: So, Glenn, how do you…

Sourcecon 2013: Driving the ship – Leading and Managing a Military Veteran Sourcing Program

The first session I attended was on managing a veteran sourcing program by Dan Piontkowski. In this session he went over a lot of great information about Vet sourcing programs.

He specifically made it clear you need the right people doing it and it…

For those of you who did not know Sourceon is here in Seattle or rather Bellevue at the Microsoft campus. Day 1 just concluded and it was a busy day filled with Networking and great speakers.

The day started off with Jeremy Roberts giving a state of sourcing address to the attendees. Next came a panel discussion with 4 of the tops in our industry Tito Magobet,…

Boolean Operators and More Updated!!

So this is an update to my all inclusive list of operators. The update is as of 9/30/13, of course I will have other updates as I find new operators. Why you ask, well as I said below there are always new ones being discovered.…

As most of you know, I have written several blogs about the ridiculous things that hiring managers (HM), and recruiters use to discount candidates. Things like hopping, being out of work to long, knowing someone who knows someone etc. Well I recently heard of one that really takes the cake.

Now there is a movement amongst HMs and recruiters, that if…