SlideShare is a great online repository not only full of slides and previous presentations, but it’s also full of resumes. For the past decade, SlideShare has been a great resource for many recruiters and sourcers. Since its acquisition from LinkedIn…
Ninh Tran
The Top 16 Articles of 2016: #6 – Make The Internet Sourcer And Recruiter Friendly
Editors Note: For the last 16 days of December, SourceCon will be resharing our most popular articles from the year. Last month, I had a coffee chat with a technical sourcing lead at Google to shoot the breeze about talent…
LinkedIn Or LinkedOut? Revisiting the 2016 SourceCon State of Sourcing Survey
I was invited to join a Facebook group “No LinkedIn Fridays” by Jeff Newman. It’s a group of active, innovative recruiters and sourcers who’re exploring new resources, channels, and tools to find a LinkedIn alternative. As advised by the group…
Look Back To The Year of 2004 To Understand The Future Of LinkedIn
LinkedIn has been the “talk of the town” this past week after the Microsoft-LinkedIn acquisition deal closed. Our sourcing community buzzed with tons of predictions and hints about the future of LinkedIn. We care about it because we rely on…
Secrets You May Not Know About GitHub Sourcing
If you Google “recruit on GitHub,” you will find more than ten blogs/articles/videos for this topic. I almost gave up writing something for this topic, but Dean Da Costa changed my mind. He’s a crazy geek in our community who…
Make Hiring Managers Recruiting Friendly
It’s fairly common to hear complaints about the hiring managers in recruiting. Some may complain that hiring managers didn’t clarify job requirements. Some may suffer from the lack of feedback. It is known to us (recruiters and sourcers) that collaboration…
Make the Internet Sourcer and Recruiter Friendly
Last month, I had a coffee chat with a technical sourcing lead at Google to shoot the breeze about talent sourcing, brainstorming ideas about our industry. But I was thrown away when he asked me, “Steven, do you know how…
A Millennial’s Hard Learned Lessons About Managing His Generation
Our 2015 summer internship program was a disaster. My company, HireTeamMate/Hiretual, hired one software engineering intern after another — failure after failure — but on paper they seemed perfect for us. We needed more engineering power to speed up development…
Data Scientists: Before You Go All Crazy About Data, Here’s What to Know About Recruiters
Nowadays, too many platforms and tools are claiming big data or AI-driven recruiting. There is a common pitfall here: a data scientist is not thinking in a recruiter’s way. How could we expect them to solve recruiting problems then? Before…
A Hidden Reason Why 90 Percent of Startups Die
When talking about why 90 percent of early-stage startups easily die, people always talk about these reasons like no funding, poor product, bad marketing performance, weak leadership, etc. “Why do some many startups fail” from Quora features different voices and…
How to: Outbound vs. Inbound Sourcing Part 2
Every position needs to have a strategy on how the position will be sourced and filled. There are multiple factors to consider such as your budget and timeline. The question remains for your position, which methodology will be cost effective…
The Future of CareerBuilder
All these acquisitions make my head spin. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn, which acquired Connectifier and Rapportive. Randstad acquired Monster, which acquired TalentBin. Recruit acquired Indeed and SimplyHired, which they turned it into an Indeed-sponsored job board. What’s going to happen with…
How to Recruit on Facebook, Part 2
In “How to Recruit on Facebook, Part 1,” I have discussed the importance of company branding, reputation, and the power of talent communities for building a strong talent pipeline. However, recruiting on Facebook doesn’t end there. Beyond active talent communities,…
How to: Outbound vs. Inbound Sourcing Part 1
In the race for talent, recruiters and sourcers have to create a working sourcing strategy that not only targets the right candidates but also produces a list of prospective candidates fast. At the beginning of every successful sourcing strategy lies…
How to Recruit on Facebook
Have you ever struggled with recruiting on Facebook? Have you ever wondered how to plug into the world’s biggest social network to power a strong talent pipeline? Are you one of the many who don’t recruit on Facebook? If you…
How to Recruit on LinkedIn, Fast, Without Breaking the Bank
Recently I discussed the slowdown in tech hiring, which is already reflected in today’s longer and more difficult hiring cycles as hiring managers are more selective with the quality of candidates. Recruiting and job seeking has become significantly more challenging as…