Best Practices

LinkedIn Sourcing Tip: Searching by Company? Beware!

Recently, I wrote about the intrinsic issues associated with searching LinkedIn for potential candidates with specific industry experience, and how using the “Industry” field can actually prevent you from finding the people you’re looking for. 
A number of readers responded by suggesting a logical solution to the issue – searching by specific company name(s) instead of using LinkedIn’s ”Industry” [...]

Best Practices, LinkedIn, Search Process, Sourcing Mistakes, Sourcing and Recruiting

Sourcing Training Best Practices

One of the most common forms of group training in the sourcing community is the webinar.
Some are free, others cost money. Some are internal corporate trainings, and others are delivered by 3rd party trainers.
Although web based training is relatively easy to deliver and it offers the ability to train large numbers of people across multiple [...]

Best Practices, Training Sourcers and Recruiters

Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices

I firmly believe that candidate identification is the most critical step in the talent acquisition/recruiting life cycle – you can’t build a relationship with, receive a referral from, network with, or hire someone you haven’t found in the first place.
From the very beginning of my recruiting career, I’ve leveraged technology for talent identification, and I’ve learned that searching databases, [...]

Best Practices, Mistakes, Search Process, Sourcing and Recruiting