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…
Greg Hawkes
Greg Hawkes
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,…
Acronyms and Data Extraction: Adding Tool Functionality With a Kneeling Jab – A #SourceCon Royale Preview
Learn, innovate, create. These three concepts that help me build pipelines, processes, tools, and websites. Often you can take a tool or resource and find hidden or unrealized functionality. This goes back to video games and the days of Street…
The Sourcing Guild
Stranger Things is a Netflix Phenomenon, a dark, otherworldly adventure centered around a group of middle school kids who play Dungeons and Dragons. This scenario is based in the 1980s, way before the time of Baldur’s Gate and the abundant…
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Sourcing
In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, a supercomputer by the name of Deep Thought takes millions of years to answer the question of all questions, “What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?” The answer is 42,…
Beth’s Story: One Conversation, One Conference, One Chance
When our healthcare roles changed suddenly in the midst of a layoff, well we were worried. I always had the impression the two sourcers on a full cycle team would get the axe first. Well, I was half right, my cohort Beth…
#SourceCon is Here! Becoming a Human Personification of Sourcing
For those of you that don’t know, Daniel Bryan was a “professional” wrestler on WWE. He’s small in stature, got a sweet beard, and the odds were always stacked against him when he wrestled the giant stars like John Cena. Years ago…
A Sourcer’s Goodbye to Healthcare via Sourcing Toolbox
As many of you may have heard, I’m leaving the healthcare industry to join the Sourcing team at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. I know, shocker right? As I exit an industry that has been so great to me, I realized I had…