Maureen Sharib's Blog (166)

Jungle Jargon

By: Inc. Staff January, 2006

All business subcultures have their own way of talking, and recruiters are no different. Here's some slang from the frontlines of the talent wars.

Lift-out n. When an entire team of employees is recruited from a competitor at once: "Good news: We engineered a complete lift-out of ACME Corp.'s programmers."

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Added by Maureen Sharib on April 25, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

MagicMethod Canadian Sponsor Needed!

I'm looking for someone in Toronto to host a full day seminar of the telephone names sourcing course "The Magic in the Method" this summer. What we'll need: a room that will seat 50 w/ a projector/sound system

I'll give away 3 free seats for the provision and oh, by the way, if anyone wants to sponsor lunch for us, I'll give them 2 seats too.

This arrangement has… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 22, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Join these LinkedIn sourcing groups!

SourcersGuild 1835 members – grows by 20 or so a day - be one of them!

MagicMethod 390 members – grows by a couple a day - be one of these too!

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Added by Maureen Sharib on April 17, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

How To Find Construction People

There was a post over on the Yahoo group Sourcers Unleashed that asked:

"Can anyone share some proven methods of getting the names of individuals in construction companies? They are usually not typically found in googling etc, and they are usually not found at the office locations of the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 11, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

Why My Signature Is So Long

Many people ask me about business development techniques for sourcing. I tell them most BD techniques are pretty much the same - effective IF YOU USE THEM! This is one of the best ones you can employ - starting and cultivating discussions around subjects you know. This is one way to become recognized in our business and it's a good way to grow your business.

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Added by Maureen Sharib on April 11, 2008 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

The Recruiting Animal Show Today at Noon EST

TODAY at noon est

Animal Says:

The Recruiting Animal Show is the most efficient effective, results-oriented recruiting call-in radio show in the world today. It's supposed to be informative and fun and... Oh yeah? You tell me where it's boring. I want to know! Listen to the latest show here.

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Added by Maureen Sharib on April 9, 2008 at 9:39am — No Comments

AmyBeth Hale needs your help!

Take a survey to help AmyBeth compile results related to research/sourcing for her presentation on how to use research effectively (we’re ALL interested in that, right?) in June at the Fordyce Forum in Las Vegas.

Results of this survey will be revealed at The Fordyce Forum in Las Vegas, June 4-6.

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Added by Maureen Sharib on April 7, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Sourcing/Recruiting Domain Names for Sale

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music. ~Art Blakey
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See all the domain names for sale here.

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 7, 2008 at 9:00am — 9 Comments

Don't Miss Maureen Sharib in Cincinnati on June 24!

Maureen will be presenting a full day of her MagicMethod telephone names sourcing training at the Greater Cincinnati Human Resource Association (GCHRA) on Tuesday, June 24 at the Baldwin Center near downtown Cincinnati.

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Price: $225 GCHRA members Non-members $275.00

Location: Baldwin Center/655 Eden… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 7, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

The Sourcers Source

Does anyone have hardware/legally transferable software they'd like to contribute to other sourcers just starting out? If you do, volunteer it here! Recipients are responsible for cost of shipping. If anyone needs anything - post it over there (at link above). You never know - someone just might help!

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ~… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 5, 2008 at 11:00am — No Comments

How Many Names? Updated 2008

I get asked quite often, “How many names do I need to order to make this telephone names sourcing thing work?” The answer is deceptively simple: “Usually 30-50 names will effect ONE IMMEDIATE HIRE. Usually,” I warn.

It’s a big “usually”. It depends on the veracity of the names sourced, of course; but it also depends on the skill level of the recruiter. I can only bring you the names – what you do with them is entirely up to you. In most fields, though, 30-50 names of the truly… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 4, 2008 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Go and Get 'Em!

Google Cutting 300 Jobs at DoubleClick

In the first sizable layoffs in its history, Google is cutting about 300 jobs from the American operations of DoubleClick, the advertising technology company that it acquired recently, according to a person with direct knowledge of Google’s plans.

The cuts represent about a quarter of DoubleClick’s… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on April 3, 2008 at 6:32am — No Comments

Sourcing Contest 2008

Do you have a sourcing trick or techniques that you are proud of and would like to share? Enter our sourcing contest - Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Winners will be promoted on our website and receive one of the following prizes; $$Gift card, New BlackBerry, T-shirts

Results and winners will displayed on the Illinois Recruiters website on… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on March 20, 2008 at 4:00pm — No Comments

When is a list too old?

Interesting blog post by the founder of Broadlook, Donato Diorio, about “lists”and how to measure their effectiveness – your input requested.

How do you measure a list? How important is it… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on March 18, 2008 at 7:44am — No Comments

A Woman's World?

Boldface in Cyberspace: It’s a Woman’s Domain

A DIFFERENT FACEBOOK Liz Smith, Lesley Stahl, Mary Wells and Joni Evans are four founders of wowowow.com, a new Web venture, which is scheduled to open for business on Saturday.

Going up against thriving well-established destinations like iVillage or More will be no small task. Wowowow’s chief appeal may… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on March 6, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Bill Gates asks, over on LinkedIn, this a.m....

Bill Gates of Microsoft fame asks, over on LinkedIn, this morning:

How can we do more to encourage young people to pursue careers in science and… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 28, 2008 at 8:20am — 2 Comments

Forgotten Fun

ERE Article Published 2/27/2008 by Maureen Sharib

I'd forgotten the fun of Internet search.

I had a job come in during January. The position was for a senior-level manager in the R&D software group of a major storage business. The customer told me in the specifications that the person we were looking for was "an uber-geek who has the capacity and the desire… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 27, 2008 at 6:28am — No Comments

FREE To Be Me

Penelope Trunk (she’s going to be speaking at ERE’s Spring Expo in San Diego – DO NOT miss her!) wrote an astonishing piece Sunday on her blog – it was called “How to be more interesting to other people”

I know many people are interested in this concept.

In it, she says, “The interesting part of writing is not the part of the…

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Added by Maureen Sharib on February 11, 2008 at 11:25am — No Comments

Telephone Sourcing in the UK - questions

I posted this in the MagicMethod Telephone Name Sourcing group too and if you’d like to join that group go here: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/group/magicmethod

I…

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Added by Maureen Sharib on February 10, 2008 at 7:08am — No Comments

Do You Want to Change The Recruiting Industry For the Better? How?

Jason Davis put this new question into your profile and I encourage all of you to answer it! This is a GREAT QUESTION, Jason!

Sourcers! Don't be left out. Get listed in 2008 Book of Sourcers!

http://tinyurl.com/3yuoju

Do something today you don't think you can do.

Maureen Sharib

Telephone Name Sourcer/MagicMethod Trainer

513 899 9628

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maureen at namesourcer.com

http://www.techtrak.com

NameSourcer blog:… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 8, 2008 at 11:33am — 4 Comments