Sourcing and Recruiting
Recruiting is a Matter of Perspective
It is all too easy for sourcers, recruiters, HR professionals, and hiring teams to develop a skewed, distorted, and decidedly one-way view of the world. Perhaps spending 99% of the time on only one side of the recruiting process is to blame.
Regardless of the cause, it is absolutely critical to regularly take the time and [...]
Free Sourcing and Recruiting Resources
I just updated my free sourcing and recruiting resources page!
You can always navigate to the free resources page at any time by using the top nav bar which will escort you to a library of nearly 50 knowledge-laden links!
All in one page you can find a collection of articles related to sourcing and recruiting, [...]
What if You Only Had One Source to Find Candidates?
Imagine that you were just assigned a position to recruit for and that you needed to present 2 fully screened, highly qualified and well matched candidates within 5 business days.
Your manager/client is requesting candidates with:
3-5 years of related work experience (your choice – something not too vanilla/easy/common, but not ”purple squirrel” either)
Experience in a specific industry, and experience working in a similar [...]
Passive Recruiting Doesn’t Exist!
When most people talk about “passive recruiting,” they’re referring to the practice of targeting and recruiting so-called “passive candidates” – people who are not actively looking to make a move from their current employer.
If you accept that notion – what would be the opposite?
Active recruiting?
Think about it for a moment. Neither phrase even makes sense grammatically. [...]
The 5 Levels of Talent Mining and Candidate Sourcing
There are individuals in the HR/recruiting industry who believe that searching databases, the Internet, and social networking sites to source talent is relatively easy and that it can be automated through the use of technology.
I am happy to say that unfortunately for them, it’s not that simple.
While anyone can run a basic search and find some people, there are actually many different levels of [...]
Sourcing: Separate Role or Integrated Function?
Whatever your thoughts may be regarding the sourcing role, companies and their HR/staffing organizations have at least 2 ways of handling the talent discovery/identification function: 1) Simply allow full life cycle recruiters to handle the sourcing role as an integrated function, or 2) Separate out the sourcing function and assign the work to people who [...]
Recruiting Pulse – Your Single Source for All Things Recruiting
Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of sourcing, recruiting, social recruiting and HR blogs?
I know I am - a new recruiting blog seems to pop up almost daily!
So how can anyone possibly stay on top of all of them? Subscribing via email? Using an RSS reader?
My initial approach to not missing a post from my favorite recruiting bloggers was to [...]
LinkedIn Current Title Search: Internal vs. X-Ray Part II
In the original LinkedIn Current Title Search: Internal vs. X-Ray post, I found that there was a large disparity in results between identical internal and external (Google X-Ray) current title searches on LinkedIn.
At the end of the post I asked if anyone had any ideas as to where the missing 288 profiles were, why they weren’t returned using [...]
Data and Drive are Paramount in Sourcing and Recruiting
The other day I came across an insightful post on Fistful of Talent by Josh Letourneau in which he addresses the arms race that rages on in the talent acquisition universe – the never-ending attempt of people and companies to achieve some sort of technological advantage over the competition.
Josh would rather have a recruiter “with the “will [...]
Boolean Search Conquers Impossible Google Position
When I run recruiter training classes, I often ask for the trainees to bring me example positions they are having trouble working on to use for live sourcing training.
During one such class (a little over 2 years ago), I had a recruiter bring me an opening for a challenging position at Google that had been open for [...]
