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The One About #SourceCon
Posted on January 16, 2014 3 Comments
The first recruiting industry event I attended was the Social Recruiting Summit in New York City in 2009, then only months removed from actually recruiting for the most magical place on earth. And I remember how excited I was by having finally met a group of people who were just as geeked out about this […]
Tool Time: Three Sourcing & Recruiting Technologies Worth Watching
Posted on October 25, 2013 Leave a Comment
The HR Technology Conference serves, for our industry at least, as the debutante ball for talent technology, the annual ‘coming out’ event for dozens of new systems, solutions and services jockeying for their fair share of recruiting organizations’ annual spend. This year, over 170 vendors issued event related press releases, and I’ve sat through literally 51 briefings […]
Sourcing for Dummies
Posted on October 1, 2013 Leave a Comment
If you really want to tell how good at sourcing someone really is, the first task to assign them should be to find a recent, relevant and comprehensive guide to sourcing-related terms and terminology. That’s because, well, even in a discipline driven by esoteric buzzwords and omnipresent acronyms, there’s little understanding, or even consensus, as […]
Searching Without Seizures
Posted on July 25, 2013 Leave a Comment
If you’re like most sourcers or recruiters, you’ve probably got about another twenty tabs already open on your browser in addition to this one. Fifteen of those, at least, will be hooked up to candidate databases like job boards, an ATS, or LinkedIn. Keeping all these windows open only makes sense (even if it makes […]
Social Media Secrets for Small Business Success
Posted on January 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
Contrary to popular belief, not every big company is putting big bucks into spreading their brand and employer message via social media at work. Most corporate social media functions have limited headcount, time and resources dedicated to social networks, demanding low-cost, innovative approaches for attracting and driving social media engagement, both current and potential. That means […]
Snark Attack 