#the sourcing function

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How to Set Goals for Sourcers – Part 1 by @TravisWindling

For a leader setting goals for members of a sourcing team, the largest challenge is often the lack of having a historical benchmark. Sourcing metrics are often quite different from recruitment metrics but recruitment metrics can offer a good place to begin. If you have several recruiters who recruit for a specialized skill set, it […] http://dlvr.it/B9Mj5n

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Sourcing, Analytics, Branding: 3 Roads in Diverged In a Career

When you get to your desk in the morning you read your Google alerts, at lunch you browse LinkedIn, and by dinner you realize you are going to have to call your Zoominfo rep again to order more contacts. At this point in your career, you’ve developed a six cup of coffee a day habit […] http://dlvr.it/8vgpNy

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Want to Advance Sourcing? Look No Further Than Patrick Swayze and Oprah by @MatthewJLeBlanc

Now, I know what you’re thinking before you even start reading this. Oprah plus Patrick Swayze does not equal Sourcing. It’s not normally something I would look for either but bear with me for a few short minutes and I am hoping you will be jumping on the couch like Tom Cruise by the end. […] http://dlvr.it/850Wyf

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A Few Thoughts About Starting a Talent Sourcing Function by @TravisWindling

Your leadership team has decided that your company is spending too much money on agency fees, that there are too many open requisitions in a particular area of the business, or any other combination of challenges. A potential solution to this problem is sourcing. How do you get started? http://dlvr.it/7kGpyg

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#DriveThruHR: What Annoys a Sourcer?

Last week, I had the opportunity to join William Tincup on #DriveThruHR. We talked about Sourcing, Recruiting, and the SourceCon conference. Early in the call, William tries to identify what annoys a sourcer. Listen to the show below. http://dlvr.it/6nkhsJ

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Direct Source or Die? #Rechangout

I started this morning early as a participant on #Rechangout,  a Google+ Hangout ON AIR with some friends in the UK. Topics covered include: - What is a sourcer? - The difference in pipelining, talent communities, and “just in time” recruiting. - Sourcing team structures in the UK and the US. Watch the entire video […] http://dlvr.it/6ksGYh

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Properly Equipping a Future Generation of Excellent Sourcers

I don’t know a single person whose goal upon graduating either from high school or college was to become a recruiter or a sourcer. To the best of my knowledge, there isn’t a single college that has a degree program dedicated to the art and/or science of recruiting (and no, Human Resources does NOT count, […] http://dlvr.it/6fL1hT

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The Myth of the Bottomless Candidate Pool

There are many things broken in the cycle of recruitment, but in my opinion, a shift in mentality can save a lot of pain. I am going to rip the bandaid off for you. Brace yourself. There is NOT a never ending pool of candidates. The amount of data we have access to today, and […] http://dlvr.it/6X0Gq3