Note: The 2017 list was issued last month. Find it here. To make it onto Bo Burlingham’s The Best Small Companies In America, 2016 list on Forbes, a company had to meet six specific criteria. Although each criterion is critical,…
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The Revolution Will Begin Eventually (Maybe): AI and Recruiting
Here’s the latest prediction concerning the future of AI, based on a survey of the leading researchers, conducted by Oxford University: the experts predict there’s a 50 percent chance that AI will be better than humans at more or less everything…
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How to find Candidate Contact Information – Back to Basics
In the digital age, we recruiting professionals have become a little spoiled by all of the tools available to us. We now have fancy extensions and apps that, when applied correctly, greatly aid our ability to find people, contact information…
When is the Perfect Time to Post a Job?
Job adverts cost mоnеу, and no recruiter wаntѕ to bе at аn есоnоmiс disadvantage bу роѕting jоb openings during timеѕ few people would see it. Any online mаrkеting рrоfеѕѕiоnаl would tell уоu thаt thе effectiveness оf аdvеrtѕ dереndѕ оn the…
15 Signs You Might Be a Sourcer
1. You hack the Eventbrite site for the local soccer league and cross reference it with your child’s elementary school roster (downloaded from the school’s FTP site) to decide who to invite to your kid’s birthday party. 2….
The Email Recruiting Campaign: The Inbox is the Battlefield in the Digital War for Talent
Three seconds. Count them out. One thousand one! One thousand two! One thousand three! I have Three seconds to entice you to read my email. Have I three seconds to grab your attention? Reacting a hyper speed is a core aspect of the…
Should We Rely on Sourcing Tools?
The game of cat and mouse continues with LinkedIn. If you haven’t noticed, some of our most beloved sourcing tools have temporarily stopped working on LinkedIn. This isn’t surprising news as SourceCon first reported in April that LinkedIn updated its…
6 Things Every Sourcer Wants a Candidate to Know
A professional sourcer will look through hundreds of different candidate resumes and LinkedIn profiles a day, and therefore are highly attuned to noticing candidate’s mistakes. Some errors are minute and forgivable, some are too funny to ignore, and others can…
Should We Rely on Sourcing Tools?
The game of cat and mouse continues with LinkedIn. If you haven’t noticed, some of our most beloved sourcing tools have temporarily stopped working on LinkedIn. This isn’t surprising news as SourceCon first reported in April that LinkedIn updated its…
The Email Recruiting Campaign: The Inbox is the Battlefield in the Digital War for Talent
Three seconds. Count them out. One thousand one! One thousand two! One thousand three! I have Three seconds to entice you to read my email. Have I three seconds to grab your attention? Reacting a hyper speed is a core aspect of the…
Making the Leap from Sourcer to Recruiter
A potential career move for a sourcer is to become a full lifecycle recruiter. After all, sourcing can be considered a fundamental stepping stone to becoming a full desk recruiter. Sourcing can also be considered a ridiculously challenging profession that…
A Bar, Being Human, and Being Social; Sourcing in the New World
I will begin with the fact that I love tech. I really do. I was a fan, and user like a junkie pulled to heroin at an early age. I had a Commodore 64, PlayStation, Univision, the whole “kit and…
Sourcing on Google Suites – Docs, Drive, Sheets and More
Google Docs, Sheets and other tools that Google offers their users are very popular, free and millions use them every day. They are much more than a web-based variant on traditional desktop-based office suites, like Microsoft Office. Google Apps users…
