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Books as "rough indicators"

These days, thanks to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, listing your favorite books and authors is a crucial, if risky, part of self-branding. When it comes to online dating, even casual references can turn into deal breakers. Sussing out a date’s taste in books is “actually a pretty good way — as a sort of first pass — of getting a sense of someone,” said Anna Fels, a Manhattan psychiatrist and the author of “Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives.” “It’s a bit of a Rorschach test.” To Fels (who happens to be married to the literary publisher and writer James Atlas), reading habits can be a rough indicator of other qualities. “It tells something about ... their level of intellectual curiosity, what their style is,” Fels said. “It speaks to class, educational level.”

What Engineers WANT To Hear When You Call

You get called, emailed, contacted by a Recruiter. This person has 20 seconds to make an impression. What do you want to hear, not hear? Answers here.
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Solution Sourcing

Today, respected noted recruiting industry expert, national speaker, and columnist Lou Adler wrote, over on ERE, about sourcing. He said, “…we (recruiters, recruiting managers, and HR leaders) spend far too much effort, training, money, and resources than necessary on sourcing.”

In the preceding paragraph, this author misidentified the syndrome, saying, “If you've ever lost a good candidate because someone conducted an inaccurate interview, someone on the hiring team didn't like the person's personality, or a top candidate decided not to pursue your opportunity, you've experienced over-sourcing syndrome.”

No, what you’ve experienced is bad-hiring-practices syndrome. The fact of this complicated matter is, like Shally Steckerl has stated, most companies still don't understand what good sourcing is about. Most hiring managers and many in HR STILL haven’t heard about it and are pleasantly surprised when the solution is presented. In another past article on the esteemed network, Dr. John Sullivan, stated, “75% of the corporate recruiters and 98% of the managers I have worked with have never heard of [names sourcing]”.

SourceCon's Challenge

SourceCon without Shally? What's the sourcing world coming to? Here's one place. And here's another.
And another.
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Sourcing Secrets and Shadows

“What’s your secret sauce?” they ask. “Where DID you get this stuff?” they demand. “How DO you do this so fast?” they want to know. The queries take different forms but they all boil down to the same-ol’-same-ol’: How do I do what I do?

I spend the early parts of my mornings doing phone banks, posting in my groups, answering customer inquiries and things like that. What I do most of the hours in the day, is either think about, dream about or actually telephone names source. Yep, it’s the air I breathe, oh lucky me.

Sourcing Contest 2008

Do you have a sourcing trick or techniques that you are proud of and would like to share?

Sourcing Contest 2008
Enter our sourcing contest - Prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Winners will be promoted on our website and receive one of the following prizes; $$Gift card, New BlackBerry, T-shirts

Results and winners will displayed on the Illinois Recruiters website on 04/17/08

How to enter: E-mail us any idea that you feel might win you a prize.

Submit your idea: sourcingcontest@illinoisrecruiters.org

Note from TFXL about the contest: If you are reading this thinking; wow what a great idea! I'd love to submit something, but I doubt if my idea is good enough. I would encourage you to enter the contest as an idea that is simple to you may be a homerun with the judging committee. Give it a try you'll be happy you did.

What/Who Makes a Good Name Sourcer?

Indications You Could Have a Good Name Sourcer On Your Hands:
*When she says things like, “I dream of ways to get into companies.” She actually does dream of solutions!
*She’s the type of person who knows everything about you, including your net worth, within 15 minutes of meeting you, and afterwards you wondered WHY you shared so much information with her.
*You immediately liked him, felt like you knew him a long time after only a few short minutes.
*He remarks, “It’s like a puzzle (or a baseball game, or a treasure hunt).”
*He IS a treasure hunter.
*She’s self knowledgeable. Usually very different from self-assured; which can be a fooler. She may seem like an “old soul”.
*He smiles at you first and reaches for your hand and says, “Hi, I’m Bob…”
*She’s quiet. She listens.
*She always seems to be available for you.

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Join the MagicMethod telephone names sourcing group over on RecruitingBlogs here.

Web-based screening may lead to bias suits

"Looking someone up on a Web site is not illegal because the Internet is public property," said Sue Murphy, manager of the Nashua, N.H.-based National Human Resources Assn. "But where the liability starts to come into play is when people are making hiring decisions based on that information without coming back and talking to the applicant," she said. ""I think it is going to be tested in the courts." Whole piece here.
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Do something today you don’t think you can do. Lose phone fear here.
NameSourcer blog.
NEW Join the SourcersGuild Ning network here.
Join the MagicMethod telephone names sourcing group over on RecruitingBlogs here.