Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about sourcing, candidate experience and improving hires.

Also, here is John Sumser’s list of 5 Links since he usually gets it out before me.

Here are the articles that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

An Evolution of Sourcing?  Why Sourcing is Only Going to Grow by Lance Haun (@thelance)

The End of Sourcing 1.0 is Near, Sourcing 2.0 Just Beginning by Glen Cathey (@GlenCathey)

In response to Dr. John Sullivan’s post “The End of Sourcing is Near…the Remaining Recruiting Challenge is S...“, here are two posts that talk about the evolution of the sourcing discipline.  Definitely some good points on both sides of this discussion.

Improving Hires in Two Easy Steps by Mary Illa Ward

Great guest post on Upstart HR on how to improve your hiring with some helpful examples.

The Candidate Experience?  Survey Says, That Frankly, It Stinks by John Hollon (@JohnHollon)

Interesting figures on the candidate experience with some key areas that candidates want to see improved.  Here’s also a companion piece for companies that compete in the CandE awards.

Hope you enjoy the list.  If you have any articles I should add to the list feel free to add them to the comments or follow us on Twitter @smashfly.