The thing about Jim Stroud is that he’s da bomb. Like as in mind explosion. He has done it multiple times with his presentations. The way he searches, the way he YouTubes, and the way it socks it to you…
Greg Hawkes
Greg Hawkes
Web Scraping Videos to Watch Before #SourceCon Atlanta
Bret Feig and I have been talking since around May 2018. Since that time, we’ve both had new babies, posted multiple videos on YouTube about tools and scraping, and been nerding out about JSON and which element or selector to…
6 Impossible Sourcing Tasks Before Breakfast
In 2015, I was brought into a room with about ten of my peers, and we were all told we couldn’t do something. Our jobs were being eliminated, and we couldn’t recruit for that company anymore. And guess what, I’m…
DIY Sourcing, Like Those Cheesy, Make Your Own Slime Videos, but Way Nerdier
My second grader went through a phase where she was all about watching “Do it Yourself” videos on how to make markers, crayons, and most recently various types of slime. Yes, slime, and it’s very popular with kids nowadays: However,…
Last Minute Sourcing Thoughts Before Operation: Baby Drop!
It’s close to 1:00 am, my kid and pregnant wife are asleep, and I’m thinking about sourcing. Something I’ve learned about myself is that I’ve got to keep the gears turning and write stuff down, so here it goes. What…
DIY FREE Sourcing Automation Tools
WebClipDrop is a pretty cool tool by my free trial expired. SeekOut is an excellent tool, but my free trial expired. SocialList has brilliant search agents (and data parsing), but my trial expired too. Do free sourcing tools still exist?…
Building the Sourcing Bridge With a Weird yet Glorious Multifaceted Animal
A sourcing stack can be a duck-billed platypus, a liger, a hippocampus (part horse part fish), or have you saying “What the duck was that?” When I started out hunting passive candidates, it was a job board focused market. I…
The #SourceCon Hackathon Final Four: Sourcing Tool Decks Included!
Like the four houses of Hogwarts, we sat ready to battle for the title of Top Seeker. This wasn’t a basketball tourney; this was an intricate battle of the nerdiest minds in sourcing and recruitment. It was another SourceCon Hackathon,…
Beth’s Story – A #SourceCon Tribe Update
One conversation, one conference, one chance. I last wrote those words when I blogged about my friend Beth’s ups and downs after falling victim to a Sourcing layoff. When something like that happens to your teammate, it affects you. I was…
SourceCon Insider: Dean Da Costa Inspiring List of Tools (with a Side of Steve Levy One-Liners)
My first SourceCon, the two people on my list to meet in real life were Aaron Lintz (who helped with a noob question about Kimono), and the Tool Master, Dean Da Costa. This was way before I was writing articles,…