Sourcing Automation
100+ Free Sourcing & Recruiting Tools, Guides, and Resources
Tweet It’s been a LONG time coming, but I finally got around to updating my free sourcing & recruiting tools, guides and resources page where I now keep a current list of the best of my work all in one place for easy bookmarking and reference. You can find it here on my main [...]
The End of Sourcing 1.0 is Near, Sourcing 2.0 Just Beginning
Tweet In case you haven’t read Dr. John Sullivan’s recent article entitled, “The end of sourcing is near…the remaining recruiting challenge is selling“, I highly recommend that you do so. While I agree with some of the points that Dr. Sullivan raises, I disagree with others as I believe he has an oversimplified view [...]
Talent Sourcing: Man vs. AI/Black Box Semantic Search
Tweet Back in March 2010, I had the distinct honor of delivering the keynote presentation at SourceCon on the topic of resume search and match solutions claiming to use artificial intelligence in comparison with people using their natural intelligence for talent discovery and identification. Now that nearly 2 years has passed, and given that in [...]
Boolean Search Strings, Referrals and Source of Hire
Tweet I read an article on ERE about the other day titled “Love Writing Boolean Instead of Recruiting? Then Don’t Read This Post.” While I happen to be pretty good at and thoroughly enjoy writing Boolean queries for talent mining, I actually love the entire recruiting life cycle. Sourcing is a means to an end, [...]
LinkedIn’s Talent Connect, Talent Pipeline, and Certification
Tweet Talent Connect 2011 in Las Vegas was just as good as, if not better than, Talent Connect 2010 in San Francisco. Nearly 2,000 people showed up, which is around 3 times as many attendees as last year’s conference, and they represented over 700 companies from 17 countries. One thing’s for sure – LinkedIn knows how to [...]
Talent Sourcing: Beyond Tips, Tricks, Hacks and the Internet
Tweet It’s bothered me for quite some time now that many people essentially equate sourcing with Internet search – using search engines such as Google and Bing to find resumes, lists, press releases, etc. It bothers me because sourcing is so much more than that. It also bothers me because I am aware that many [...]
The Future of Sourcing and Talent Identification
Tweet If you listen to certain people in the recruiting industry, you’d think that being able to leverage information systems for talent discovery and identification will be an obsolete skill for recruiters and that sourcers will have to find another profession in the near future. According to these folks, people with sourcing skills won’t be [...]
Curious About My SourceCon Keynote?
Tweet Are you attending or thinking about attending SourceCon 2010 in San Diego in March? I am going to be the keynote speaker for the event, and I will be presenting on Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Cognition when it comes to sourcing and matching resumes. If you’re curious to know what kinds of things I’ll [...]
