In case you missed it, the SourceCon Fall agenda was posted yesterday. We’ve invited some of the top sourcing minds in the country to pack the agenda with valuable content. Below is a list of speakers attendees will see in Denver…
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How to Scrape Public LinkedIn Groups Into an RSS Feed (For Free)
LinkedIn is inching toward 2 million user groups. Passionate people create these communities to engage people with common interests. Nearly half are “open groups” instead of “members only” groups which allows discussions to be indexed by search engines. We all…
Video Demo: Web Scraping for Sourcers and Recruiters With Import.io
Recently, we shared a video demo of Outwit Hub. It’s a great tool for scraping data from the internet. The problem with Outwit is that it requires some coding knowledge, a skill which many recruiters and sourcers do not possess….
Free Bookmarklet: A LinkedIn Hack Simplified by @JanBernhart
Sourcers and recruiters are notorious for finding hacks to make life easier. One of the most popular hacks circulating right now allows a LinkedIn user to view the full profile of other users they are not connected to. This is…
8 Tools Sourcers and Recruiters Should Add to Their Tool Belts
Today, on the #SourceCon Live Google+ Hangout ON AIR, Dean Dacosta shared several tools for recruiters and sourcers. Tools discussed include Tweet Adder, Search-IM, sourcing.recruiting.com, Copernic, Connectifier (private beta), Elite People Search, MillionShort, and CVfox. Connectifier stands out to me…
Fall #SourceCon Speakers You Should Follow On Twitter #FF
It’s Friday morning, so I thought I would send out a SourceCon Fall #FollowFriday list for sourcers and recruiters. In early October, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from some of the brightest sourcers in the industry. Follow them now…
Arbita Lays Off Sourcing Group; Job Posting Business In Flux
Following the departure of master sourcer Shally Steckerl, the recruitment services company Arbita has closed its sourcing unit, laying off its employees, and may dispose of its job-posting business as well. Don Ramer, CEO and founder of Arbita, said three…
Arbita Lays Off Sourcing Group; Job Posting Business In Flux
Following the departure of master sourcer Shally Steckerl, the recruitment services company Arbita has closed its sourcing unit, laying off its employees, and may dispose of its job-posting business as well. Don Ramer, CEO and founder of Arbita, said three…
SourceCon Musings from @infosourcer
As per the request put forth by Amybeth last Friday, I definitely wanted to share my personal experience with SourceCon because it was a special part of my previous career as a recruiting researcher! My involvement with SourceCon officially began…
MBA Grad Seeks Job With Microsoft; Posts Ad On Facebook
Like tens of thousands of seniors across the U.S., Eric Barker graduated this month with no job. But unlike every one of those tens of thousands, the newly minted MBA from Boston College took the unconventional step of running a…
The ROI of Cheap Training
Co-written by Shally, Maureen Sharib, and Glenn Gutmacher. Have you noticed a slew of emails lately for free or cheap training? Is it tempting, when budgets are being cut back, to say that having everyone pick some of those and/or…
Sneak Peek at the Week Ahead
Here is what is going on this week around ERE: On Tuesday at 2 p.m. ET on our sister site FordyceLetter.com, tune in for the fourth episode of Jeff Kaye’s Fordyce TV show, Next Level Live. On this week’s episode,…
Three Minutes of Advice On Social Networks For Recruiters
You’ve read about them. You’ve heard about them at conferences. Glenn Gutmacher did a webinar (still available, scroll down) on them. In fact there’s even an entire conference dedicated to corporate social networks. With the growing number of providers, starting…
ERE Expo Opens With Busy Workshop Schedule
ERE Expo Fall opened this morning in Hollywood Beach, Florida, starting with a series of practice workshops covering everything from how to source passive candidates to how to interview for results, improve Latino recruitment and plan strategically. Dozens of recruiters…
Weekly Update: Quality of Hire, Cuil, Assessments
Quality of Hire Measurement Reporting and metrics is always a hot topic for recruiting, but so few companies do it right. In my research over the years, most companies measure time-to-hire and cost-per-hire but ignore quality-of-hire. Lisa Shapiro Mendell is…
Weekly Update: Onboarding, Work/Life Balance, and the Economy
Last week I posted a summary of the most relevant, thought-provoking discussions of the week, and after hearing from several of you, I thought I would make this a weekly tradition. I picked out six of the top discussions and…
Webinar: The Sourcer’s Daily Dozen
A recent ERE survey conducted with Knowledge Infusion indicated that the greatest individual challenge companies are facing in recruiting is identifying enough quality candidates (71% of respondents). Yet, 95% of companies believe that their sourcing efforts are average or above…
Ecosystem
A Recruiting Ecosystem is a combination of multiple elements connected together in order to achieve ongoing results for common goals. For those that are interested in the origin of the term “Business Ecosystem”, below is a link to the Wikipedia…
Recruiting Sustainability
The product is names sourcing, a subject that some people equate with pulling resumes off the job boards and searching the Internet with brilliant Boolean to discover those tantalizing names contained within a search engine. Some call it Internet research…
Diversity In Recruiting – AIT: Advanced Individual Training
Basic Training conjures up many images for people who served in the military. Unbelievable, comical, weird, and life changing experiences are all interwoven in the fabric of your military memories. One recruit, as the story goes, enmeshed in basic training…