I read this neat article on MSN titled “15 ways stores trick you into spending”. I just wanted to share a few of the highlights of the tricks they listed. Some of them are obvious but their all interesting. One of these tricks was that the desirable departments are placed far away from the entrance. […]

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Carolyn Brocherie, Sr. Researcher for Forza International was telling me of the skills crisis in Australia. “Australia has a critical shortage of engineers (all disciplines), doctors and nurses, lawyers, quality IT personnel who have people skills as well as technical; marketing executives; tradespeople, oil and gas, and lots more.” She said.
“The skills crisis in Australia […]

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I was thinking about the way we market our jobs and how to better them and then it occured to me!! What if I posted a personals ad as we do a job. I’d bet I’d have women lining up for the job as we do for the jobs we post for our highly sought […]

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In his comments to my blog entry on internet search fundamentals Shally referenced a great article titled Keyword Mutation Detection and the Art of Seeking. In it, he mentions MS’s AdCenter Labs and the use of the tilde (~) which are some great suggestions to help you expand your search
What helped me to understand their […]

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Imagination….I was just imagining a beach with perfect waves breaking to the beat of “California girls” as sung by the Beach Boys. Just relaxing right outside my bungalow in a hammock… sumptuous breakfast… while making a call and making the highest commissioned placement, all before noon still in time to enjoy the sun and bathing […]

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I’ve been reading The recruiting Animal’s blog entries on Gen Y. The slamming that he is giving Y’ers is whipping around in my head and I just have to say something. The lashings throughout the posting stem from accusations that Gen Y is comparable to the Hippie Generation. It is, I think, very hard to […]

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The last entry was a side track. I was side tracked by Shally’s comment. What I had on my mind to say was related to internet search fundamentals. I spend a lot of time training and developing training materials on sourcing. It is my belief that keyword development is the area that most sourcers/recruiters have […]

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Shally left a brief comment to the last blog entry that said…
“My experience has taught me that if they
aren’t responding I just need to change my message.”
That is the point I was leading to, thanks Shally for helping me clarify. I believe it was Albert Einstein that said that the definition of crazy […]

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My current dilemma is that we are getting bombarded with difficult positions to source. The team is finding quite a few qualified folks but it seems like there is something further changing in the market. Candidates are more and more reluctant to answer voicemail messages or even emails. (Is anyone else experiencing that?)
So how do […]

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Amybeth asked what to me was a very interesting question. She asked: “Do you have some recommendations for formulating a strategic sourcing process that will teach the basics to recruiters and researchers alike? It is very true that we have become somewhat over-reliant on technology tools and have forgotten the basics. Kind of like using […]

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Amybeth hale posted and excellent outline on the establishing of a research team. She eloquenty outlined what I call developing “core competencies” in different broad technical disciplines so that each sourcer can focus on developing pipelines in niche segments.
The one thing I would add is that she stated: “Having researchers who specialize, in my opinion, […]

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Today I was thinking of the challenges that we are encountering as sourcers.  It seems like our job is getting more and more challenging. There is a growing need for specialized skills and a shortage of candidates. But I’m not saying anything new. The problem is that we have more innovative tools now than we […]

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There are many sourcing methods, techniques, and approaches. Most recruiters and sourcers are competent in the use of many of these sourcing tools, including keyword utilization, and query searching, yet in order to improve our sourcing performance we have to look beyond the techniques.
It isn’t just a matter of forecasting the technology needs or analyzing […]

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