Maureen Sharib's Blog (166)

Todd Burkhardt, Friendly Sourcer

Todd Burkhardt believes sourcing brings everything to the recruiting industry and if you're only recruiting active candidates you're not really recruiting.

On Thursday, November 13, he's gonna show us what he means! Be there, in the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat at noon EST for the scoop!

"I feel like the AA's get crapped… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 12, 2008 at 10:42am — No Comments

Phone Lessons (X Rated)

"I learned to listen to men in a deeper way. Tuning into men's voices, instead of getting caught up on their looks, was the same as a person suddenly going blind, only to find their other senses enhanced." ~ Photo Essay: Phone Sex Operators: Lessons for Virgins.… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 10, 2008 at 2:31pm — 2 Comments

Get a White House Job - Here's How

President-elect Barack Obama has launched a Web site to chronicle his transition. Within 24 hours of last week's historic vote, his transition team rolled out change.gov, a Web site that promises to be "your source for the latest news, events and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 10, 2008 at 1:59pm — 1 Comment

Value in Twitter?

Also, find people through Twitter Search for example that talk about topics you are interested in, and start conversations with them. Last week I highlighted a business from a friend that offers mediation services. My friend got people contacting him through my one Twitter post. Just 140 characters can result in closed business for you or someone else. More… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 10, 2008 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Social Networking Sites Dos and Don'ts

Certain predicted technological revolutions are more myth than reality.

After all, TV phones and laserdiscs were hailed as the wave of the future and yet, despite influencing today's technology, they've gone by the wayside.

Social networking sites might have seemed as if they'd follow the same route, but all signs suggest they're here for the long haul.

Employers are checking job applicants' profiles on sites like Facebook,… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 10, 2008 at 1:20pm — No Comments

LinkedIn Users - Who They Really Are

Millions of people have been queried, invited and even cajoled into joining the business social network LinkedIn. And more than 30 million of them have accepted. But while we knew LinkedIn members used the site for business reasons -- vs. the more purely social networks such as Facebook or MySpace -- we didn't know exactly who they were. Some are looking for jobs, others… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 10, 2008 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Could you pass the U.S. citizenship test?

Interesting ERE string from May, 2006 here.

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Looking for information on phone sourcing? Read through the T and TH Phone Sourcing Classroom Chats over on the MagicMethod network. They’re listed in the Blog Posts section and are identifiable by the yellow talk bubble that says… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 10, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Six Flexible Careers That Pay $70k

Here are six careers that offer flexibility and self-employment options or pay near the $70k range or better--along with the training you'll need.

Post Secondary Teachers

Travel Nurses

Software Designers

Management Analysts

Interior Designers

Real Estate Sales Agents

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Added by Maureen Sharib on November 6, 2008 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Failure

This week we’ve seen great success and great failure in our national elections. On Thursday in the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Class Chat we’ll be continuing this week’s discussion on failure.

"The failure is mine, not yours." ~ John McCain, November 4, 2008

What do you think failure is?

One of Tuesday’s participants commented, “We… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 5, 2008 at 9:00am — 10 Comments

DON'T CALL (Me Names)

Slightly more than a scant two years ago one of those lively "discussions" (75 replies) broke out over on ERE about the effectiveness of cold calling into companies. The original proposition asked for advice/thoughts from the group about the legality of calling into… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on November 3, 2008 at 4:30am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classes Week of October 27, 2008

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, October 30, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"Sites and search engines don't like spiders." ~Jason Gorham

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8:56am Maureen Sharib Good morning sourcers - Jason Gorham is going to lead the noon (EST) chat today. He'll be answering question about his new Sharkstrike tool on how to find MORE passive candidates. He'll be presenting on the utilization of keywords +… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 31, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments

Today's MagicMethod Sourcing Classroom Chat...NEW TOOL

On Thursday, October 30 Sharkstrike's CEO Jason Gorham will be presenting on the utilization of keywords + search strings to source more candidates. In this session he will take open job orders and utilize his new tool to source on potential candidates. In this classroom chat you can learn:

How Sharkstrike Keyword Tool can find more candidates

Creation of keyword campaigns

Selection of… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 30, 2008 at 9:36am — No Comments

Wondering when it was going to end?

Winding Back the Clocks

The first week in November marks the end of a long, twisting road. Oh, right, and the elections are next week, too.

The longest Daylight Saving period in American history ends Sunday, Nov. 1, when all states except for Hawaii, most of Arizona, and parts of Indiana will dial back the clock one hour. In optimistic… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 30, 2008 at 3:00am — 1 Comment

WANTED: Volunteers to run sourcing classes

If you have an area of sourcing that you're particularly proficient in and would like some exposure for your process(es) please consider being one of the sourcing leaders leading discussion on the Tuesday and Thursday MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat series.

Send me a brief synopsis of what you'd like to cover and I'll set it into a Sourcing Class Schedule… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 28, 2008 at 6:34am — 2 Comments

LOOK UP, LEFT Love Love LOVE the Hard Day's Night video!

It's just fab-yu-lous!

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

How is a truly great job description crafted?

Bryan Chaney from Reaching Talent asks a good question over on LinkedIn about using marketing principles to craft more compelling job description:

How is a truly great job description crafted?

Take a look and submit your entries (there or here). This is for educational purposes, but feel free to have fun with this question. Where have you… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 8:56am — No Comments

What's In a Title?

What looks to be an interesting topic of discussion is posed by Peter Coussement CAPM, Project Manager at Volvo IT over on LinkedIn - he asks:

Which corporations have the most strict hierarchy in the US and Europe? Some examples? Funny stories of what you have experienced with hierarchy in the US and Europe?

The answers are starting to come in… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 8:06am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thurs, 10/23/08 SOURCING TOOLS

Best Remark of the Day

"Actually I have made a lot more as a full time name sourcer than I ever did as a recruiter and the $$ are much more consistent." ~ Tom Cook

11:57am Maureen Sharib Have you all read the LinkedIn sourcing tools… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 7:25am — No Comments

Phone Sourcing Class Today - TOOLS Discussion

There's an open question over on LinkedIn that asks: What are some innovative sourcing tools that are effective? What are some new and innovative tools that you may found online or offline that seem to be most effective when sourcing quality candidates - passive or active? Also, how do you effectivley approach your sourcing in terms of using more than one tool at the same time? For example, integrating tools and sourcing methods together (not… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 23, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Sourcing Chat TODAY

SunMicro is firing and then hiring - an ERE post yesterday reported that SunMicro let all their recruiters and sourcers go and then told them to re-apply (if they still wanted to work there) and that they would be "reconsidered" according to skills. I wonder what the re-hire "terms"will be?

"Sun has announced the need to reduce overall spending in its fiscal year 2009, including a reduction in headcount."

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Added by Maureen Sharib on October 21, 2008 at 7:48am — No Comments