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’...

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...