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

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,…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on November 11, 2013 at 7:44pm — No Comments

iMetaSearch a metasearch that does more!!

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on November 11, 2013 at 7:09pm — No Comments

Be a free thinker!!

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on November 5, 2013 at 6:39pm — 1 Comment

Search IM, yes big brother is reading!!!

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 28, 2013 at 4:26pm — No Comments

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

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 22, 2013 at 1:37pm — No Comments

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

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 17, 2013 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Sourcecon 2013: Competitive Intelligence

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 16, 2013 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Sourcecon 2013: CV Sourcing Tool from Scott Simmons of Groupon

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 14, 2013 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

Sourcecon 2013: 4 Resources for Searching Twitter

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 11, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 10, 2013 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Sourcecon 2013: Creating a Self-Sustaining Sourcing Team

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 9, 2013 at 9:04pm — No Comments

Sourcecon 2013: The State of Sourcing – 2013

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 8, 2013 at 2:54pm — 2 Comments

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

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 7, 2013 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments

SourceCon Seattle 2013: An interview with Glenn Gutmacher

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 6, 2013 at 7:32pm — No Comments

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

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 4, 2013 at 3:00pm — No Comments

SourceCon 2013 - Seattle Day 1: An Overview

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,…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on October 3, 2013 at 2:30am — 1 Comment

Boolean Operators and More Updated!!

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.…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on September 30, 2013 at 3:08pm — No Comments

Wasted Email…Not really!!

Wasted Email…Not really!!
How many times have you sent an email to connect with a candidate, only to get a no thanks. Answer is a lot, the bigger question is what was the messaging you emailed that made you get nothing but…
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Added by Dean Da Costa on September 23, 2013 at 9:05pm — No Comments

Want to find a great candidate, think like a candidate!!

Want to find a great candidate, think like a candidate!!
 
Awhile back I wrote a blog about “research comes first”. It was all about how you need to do your research about your openings so you know what you are looking for,…
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Added by Dean Da Costa on September 17, 2013 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Not asking for enough, you must not be good enough!!

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…

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Added by Dean Da Costa on September 10, 2013 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

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