Shane Barnfield highlights the importance of managing a pipeline of talent reminding us that its as critical as finding them. First and foremost, talent pipelining is not a database. The KENTZ approach What they do? Maintain relations with their hard-to-find and high-volume talent. Not dissimilar to what agency recruiters do but it goes beyond the phone catch-up every quarter or so… How they do it? Shane sees that there are 4...

  Mahsuri Bianchi talks about how best to build a sourcing capability from an internal perspective at Monadelphous, an Engineering firm. She covered what it takes to be a successful sourcer in the world of engineering, resources, energy and infrastructure. When she was brought on-board to build a sourcing team she found that there was more administration activity than “pure recruiting”, a frustration many internal...

  Bill Bartee, venture capitalist speaking at Recruiters’ Hub last week offered his thoughts on what works and what does not for startups. Much of what he said can be applied to establishing sourcing functions: 1. No problem = No business This simple equation is important when you’re busy writing up business cases for budget approvals and drafting business plans. Even after you have transitioned from conception to...

Come ye, come all to the inaugural ’Sourcer Networking Drinks’ on Thursday 29th September from 5.30pm hosted at the recently renovated Emperor Lounge, The City Hotel (Corner of King St & Kent St). Join in with hearty debate and friendly banter over the status of the sourcing profession and how to improve it.  Sharing their thoughts and no doubt to add fuel to the fire the panelists include Mark Reilly (HRX), Vanina...

  It’s been just over a week since ATC SourcEvent 2011 in Melbourne, Australia.  I originally intended to post up something a lot sooner, but there was just so much information to digest (not to mention the amount of work I had on my desk that I needed to catch up on) that I decided to take some time out for it to all settle in. The story continues… Australia’s second sourcing event was hosted by the Australasian Talent...

Without giving too much away from Jim Stroud and Michael Specht’s workshop, we spent a good portion our time looking at a lot of really neat tools and exploring little tricks to find our hidden talent. All resources are available to attendees through Diigo’s ‘Sourcing Downunder Group!’ However, we soon realised that there’s more to sourcing than just new tools… The idea behind targeting the ‘hidden talent’...