As a Talent Sourcer, I’m constantly creating different Boolean strings for my searches. My day can easily get chaotic if I’m unorganized. I have hundreds of different search tabs open throughout the day. So, staying organized and having a place to store all my Boolean strings is important for my success. Thankfully, there is a…
Month: November 2018
Searching for talent is a tedious process so it’s nice to have tools to help find leads quicker. Findera is a new free search engine to help find professionals online. It has over 140 million profiles of professionals and over 125 million email addresses in their database. It was launched in September and was recently…
GitHub is the worlds largest open-sourced repository coding sites online today. Currently, it has over 28 million users and over 57 million in repositories. With so many monthly active users sharing and learning about coding it’s a fantastic place for Talent Sourcers to find qualified talent. With the recent encouragement by Susanna Frazier, I wanted…
As the holiday season approaches, recruiters and sourcers may experience a slowdown in activity. This is a common occurrence during the holidays as applicants tend to focus on preparing for the break and may not have extra time for calls. Additionally, with the end of the year approaching, many applicants may be waiting for bonuses….
A big part of sourcing in the current market is reaching out to passive candidates. There doesn’t seem to be any sign that this will change soon. Job markets that favor candidates are not the best when you are hoping for qualified applicants to apply to your job postings. To capture the attention of…
Bret Feig recently did a review of a new Facebook scraping extension called: DiG. This tool was recently launched in the chrome store and has around 150 active users. It’s exciting to learn about an extension that’s so cutting edge. Unfortunately, LinkedIn continues to decline due to misuse and spam. Many highly qualified applicants don’t…
Talent Sourcing is all about finding the right candidate in a sea of online data. It takes a ton of time to search through places like LinkedIn and there are only so many hours in the day. Luckily for us, there are many ways to find candidates and one of my most essential assets are…
Hi Jonathan, I have been working at my company for 4 years and a year ago was moved into a Talent Sourcing role. The role was new for me as well as my company. I recently attended SourceCon and came across your blog and have been really trying to focus on creating a proactive sourcing…