Anyone that knows me, knows that I love sourcing, linkedIN and my IPhone. I phone this cool article About how linkedIN just went mobile. It just made me drool.
I just thought some of you might appreciate this as much as I.
Tags: recruiting, LinkedIN, IPhone, sourcing technology.

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This article was courtesy of Y.L. Catino; as John Sumser put it a well reasoned blogger to watch.
 
I came across this article called “Microsoft’s Canadian Move a Swipe at Stiff U.S. Visa Policies” last Friday and was just a tad piqued. The last time I checked on H1b visas, their purpose is to seek “temporary […]

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Only some of my closest friends knew up until now but I have been straining to lose weight and have not been succeeding, but than last night I weight myself and came out celebrating and making a fool of myself, I had finally broke the plateau and lost two new lbs.
 When my 15 year old son […]

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In an IT service company the most important business function is that of sales. You can have the best ideas in the world, the best personnel, and the brightest management but if your sales team falls down the entire operation will fall down.
Having an effective sales strategy as well as the right person […]

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Every morning I start my day on my laptop, in front of my TV, watching one of the GMA/Today/Early Morning shows, kinda droning in and out, whilst I click away at the keyboard.
I perked up though when they announced that Tyra Banks was doing a piece on names – the stereotypes and judgments that people […]

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Recruitment is changing, especially as it relates to sourcing. It is still amazing to me that there are still many out there who think that a sourcer is a junior recruiter or that sourcing is an entry point into recruitment. But the truth of the matter is that sourcing is a highly specialized field. I […]

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Over the weekend I was reading an article from Y.L. Catino. It was a well thought out piece on the “alleged labor shortage“. There was a sentence in the article that caught my attention.  It is as follows: “Until employers take hold of their talent management programs, which of course includes recruiting, they will never be able […]

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I was just boiling some water for my tea, and a thought occured to me. This was one of those random thoughts that hits you and leaves you wide mouthed. Anyway, I thought about Internet research and compared it to boiling water for tea. Like I said, it was a random thought. 
Well, the idea that struck me […]

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To all who have been patiently awaiting its arrival, the new SourceCon website has made its debut! Make sure you check it out - the dates and location of SourceCon 2008 are up, so make sure to mark your calendars for this event!Congrats also go out to Scott Hajer and Dan Harris for naming our new […]

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Before I go into a long winded disertation about what you need to create a solid and successful sourcing strategy. Humor me, by letting me state two definitions.
First”sourcing” for me is the process of identifying candidates for the organization.
Second, (wait patiently this is the long winded part, take a deep breath!!) I define “strategic sourcing” as a […]

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Here are what I consider to be the most critical parts of internet research. I thought I would call them the ten commandments because if you do not apply one of them appropriately your sourcing effectiveness will drop.
1. Plan your search - Begin a planning process, assessing requirements.

2. Define what you are […]

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Here is a great example of excellent sourcing results.

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This post, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap a content exchange service sponsored by CollegeRecruiter.com , a leading site for college students looking for internships and recent graduates searching entry-level jobs and other career opportunities.  It is written by Rithesh Nair, Rithesh is an Executive Researcher CSS (Client Service Support for KPMG. He has a strong recruiting […]

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I’ve been reading a bit about how the effectiveness of a search is measured and have thinking how we can apply it to our sourcing/internet research efforts.  I kept coming across several terms which you all may have heard of, terms like precision, recall, and fall-out, which are the most common measurements of search effectiveness.  […]

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Since we are off to a new year I have been revisiting some of the search engines that had been introduced in the last year. As I did so and I became re-acquainted with SearchMash some of you may remember it, it was launched late 2006.
I ran some searches and It appears to have changed quite a bit from last year. […]

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