So this is the 13th presentation of the conference and the 3rd Labs of day 2. It’s also the last for this series. There were 2 titled “Practical Tips to Identify and Engage Talent” By Shannon Pritchett and “New tools Every Sourcer needs by me.

In the first lab Shannon talks a lot about finding and engaging.

TIPS

1. The hiring manager DOES NOT care where you find a candidate

–     Use common sense when sourcing

1. Get a candidate to laugh

–     Q: how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

–     A: none, that's a hardware problem

1. Be respectful of the candidates time

–     Find creative ways to ask questions

1. Work with hiring managers on educating them with data

–     Show you’re the expert

MORE TIPS

site:about.me "graphic design"

site:*.brandyourself.com "graphic design"

site:flavors.me "graphic design"

site:hi.im "cloud computing"

site:pixelhub.me "graphic design"

site:zerply.com "graphic design"

site:visualize.me "graphic design"

site:me "graphic design"

 Shannon then talks about Custom Search engines http://cse.google.com

“The most powerful sourcing tool – our brain”

“Variations in Sourcing”

TOOL ALERT: www.intel-sw.com/blog/facebook-search/

Sourcing Recap

• Don’t overcomplicate sourcing
• Track your searches, create a CSE
• It’s not all about the resume

–     "i * to (program OR develop OR code) in (c# OR java)"

• Don’t rule out active candidates
• Gather information about your candidates

–     Use the SourceCon Tracker

–     www.eremedia.com/sourcecon/sourcecon-search-tracker

• Learn, learn, learn

ENGAGEMENT

Long story short WIIFT (whats in it for them, meaning the candidate)

RECAP

• Do your research first – observe & learn
• Be unique, create a unique experience

–     Use Pandora (thanks Craig Fisher)

• Tell a joke – get a laugh
• Ask questions
• Have a genuine desire to understand
• Gather data

–     “Use data to source for culture, it doesn’t lie” – Fisher

–     TOOL ALERT: Crystal Knows, The Charlie App, Riffle, Spokeo, Facebook

Lab 2 “New tools Every Sourcer needs by me.

Well TOOL ALERT: Context Scout, 360 Social, Clearbit Connect, Block Spring, etc.

Context Scout and 360 Social are people aggregators like Connectifier but free. Clearbit connect is a great tool that can do what rapportive use to do, and much much more. IT will allow you to search a companies domain to find people and email addresses.

Block spring is a great tool that allows you to easily use APIs without programming. API= an abbreviation for Application Program Interface, is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.  Usually to use them you need to program but Blockspring makes the programming no longer needed. Some of the APIs available are:

Some of the things you can do are: 

• Glassdoor-job count and more
• EmailHunter-find, validate emails
• Twitter-find people on twitter-twitter name, what they tweet about, info in their profile etc
• Meetup-Members of a group, user info, etc
• Email Hippo-validate an email
• Fedger-company and competitive intel
• Fullcontact- Deduce name from email or username, Find person by email more info, etc 

Tools galore, enjoy and this is the end of the Sourecon 2016 spring recap series.