Following on from my morning tea update, the fun continued with Glen’s second half of the workshop. I was intrigued to find out that LinkedIn did not have a keyword limit on the ‘people search’ or any of the keywords, title, company or school search fields. This meant that Glen’s bullseye approach of targeting the ‘dream’ candidate FIRST is very much possible. I’d check to see whether your ATS system supports such a large...

The workshop so far… What qualifies as World Class Sourcing – market coverage vs. quality search + speed? Bullseye sourcing – a real eye opener for me considering I was brought up with the school of thought that you should start with a broad search and then searching narrow down the results, oscillating between the two until you have the right number of results (pendulum search); Searching for the imperfect – people aren’t...

  Coming off the back of an exciting week filled with hearing from local thought leaders, hearty debates on the direction of the sourcing industry and the value of metrics, general introductions and networking at the Sourcing Summit, I now sit here on a plane headed to Melbourne for another week for some extra “sauce”. I just can’t get enough… Given that SourcEvent 2011 is being run a week after Sourcing Summit 2011, I’m sure...

Following on from my midday update, if the morning session was anything to go by, the second half of the day absolutely blew me away. There was no short of quality presentations and frankly, there were too many sessions for me to keep up with. I’ve decided to write up a few of the key points from some of the standout talks. Christian Le Loux (@cleloux) and Kara McLeod – Connecting the Dots: Resourcing Matrix of Corporate Sourcing The...

  Kicking off with day two of the Sourcing Summit. The atmosphere is still buzzing and we’ve already covered 3 out of the 12 sessions for the day. Here’s what we’ve learnt so far: Gavin Heaton (@servantofchaos) – New Frontiers for Sourcing Talent #coffeemornings meet up every Friday in Surry Hills from 7am until “whenever people go to work”. A local meet up group for sourcers and social media...

  This was my highlight for the day. With the schedule at hand, I eagerly awaited for Riges’ workshop. The reason for my excitement was that I felt that this topic covered an area that isn’t often talked about (phone work) and I thought it would also offer me some practical knowledge for when I got back into the field. To say the least, I wasn’t disappointed. To cut to the chase, this talk was ”short and sharp” [please...