An Uncomfortable Truth about Sourcers
Something is rotten in the state of modern sourcing. The sourcing community at large is brilliant. When I was in Budapest last year at SourceCon, the world’s largest sourcing get together, I’d never experienced the types of familial bonds they shared when I’d been to broader, general recruiting conferences. They were supportive, actively encouraging and…
Your Talent Tech Stack for 2018
We’ve come a long way. There are increasingly few of us that remember the wilderness years before LinkedIn arrived. There are still fewer who remember writing things down with a pen and paper. Whilst there are still those who cling to older technology or who will forever sing the praises of “banging the phones” there’s…
The Talent Hacker’s Manifesto
Nick Marsh of Lostmy.name recently introduced the term Talent Hacking. His contention was that hiring was broken and there existed a movement towards a new way of thinking. How did it come to this? Why is it that the world of recruitment can be called out as broken with no argument to the contrary?Long ago in…
Innovation in Sourcing – The Poaching Phone
I recently posted on the wealth of innovative techniques available to a forward thinking sourcing departments who are targeting known individuals in competitor organisations. A Dubai based advertising agency, FP7, gives an object lesson in how to do this well and the direct return on investment they made from using this approach. “We set out…
Advertising a Vacancy in the Key of C#
There is a problem with advertising a vacancy on a job board. Not just the general problem of the decline in qualified candidates having to use job boards to find a new role but also the problem of standing out in a sea of other text all advertising the same type of vacancies. How can…
Innovation in Sourcing – Standing out from the crowd
The word “Sourcing” has come to be used in a particular way recently. In an age of “social recruiting” the meaning of sourcing has become narrowed to the point that it really only relates to new ways of searching the internet or the latest in a long line of software tools to interrogate ever growing…
The Perils of “Social Recruitment” or Putting the “Anti” in Social Recruitment
Many years ago, too many to remember clearly, I worked as a third party recruiter. All the clichés were present and correct. We’d “hammer” the phones, stand up to “pitch” and the paper resume was a valuable commodity. Job seekers were putting resumes on-line and those passive candidates were found by guessing at telephone numbers…