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February 2009 Blog Posts (46)

John Sumser Says Sourcing Is Almost Dead!

Contemporary sourcing is a dead-end occupation with little in the way of transferrable skills. Next generation recruiting is about relating intimately, not about mutual discovery. It's about fidelity and long term value exchange, not one night stands. It's about data that updates itself because the relationship is constantly working. Finding each other? Easy. Building an enduring relationship? Hard.

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Added by Maureen Sharib on February 27, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

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Learn if your state has a recovery website here. If it does, you can make application for a piece of the recovery dollars online!

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 27, 2009 at 9:46am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, February 26, 2009

Best Remark of the Day

"As a standard, I believe bringing the candidate to the table for a client warrants 75%." ~ Sandy White

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9:43am Maureen Sharib Read "Today's Class - Sourcing Risks and Rates"- today's subject matter - here.

11:47am bill josephson Hi Maureen....your topic today directly pertains to me/my business....glad I… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 26, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Firestorm!

Brandon, Your arguments regarding American workers needing protection seem illogical and demeaning. If American workers are the best and brightest, why would they need protection from foreign workers for opportunities in their own country?

Read the excited string… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 26, 2009 at 10:50am — No Comments

My First Sourcing Job

This is a a fabulous string started by Jason Davis over on RBC - people telling about their early experiences in recruiting. Tell us about your early experiences in sourcing!

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 26, 2009 at 10:29am — No Comments

Today's Class - Sourcing Risks and Rates

Yesterday I received a call from a woman who asked me what the "going rates" were these days on contingent* search. I asked her specifically what was she being asked to do. She told me she was being asked to:

Phone-source security clearanced workers

Contact them and present the opportunity

Profile them and get their resumes if she could

Set up a "second call" with the "recruiter" who would then "take over" and "close" the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 26, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Gov't says 'mass layoffs' soared in January

Employers took a large ax to their payrolls in January, the government said Wednesday, and the cuts are likely to get worse over the next few months.

The Labor Department reported that mass layoffs, or job cuts of 50 or more by a single employer, increased to 2,227 in January, up almost 50 percent from the same month last year. More than 235,000 workers were fired in… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 25, 2009 at 1:56pm — No Comments

Education/Public

Why are the search firms doing Superintendent searches for public schools not networking?

Why are public educ Superintendent's paid $165,000 (recent hire in Athens-Clarke County).

Why are they given 3 yr contracts?

Is this the ugly truth about education? When most of your students are in poverty, how can there be integrity in such high pay????

Obama promises energy, healthcare, and education...Will educational workers get even more flush?

And again, why are the… Continue

Added by Ann Hotchkiss on February 25, 2009 at 10:25am — No Comments

“...something worthy to be remembered.”

Watching President Obama's speech to the nation last night (February 24, 2009) I was struck by his many lyricisms but this one stood out for me as he closed his address with an exhortation: '...this was the time when we performed, in the words that are carved into this very chamber, 'something worthy to be remembered.'”

The phrase stayed with me… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 25, 2009 at 9:30am — No Comments

Feelings on Offshore Sourcing and Recruiting?

Fascinating ERE discussion on the subject going on NOW here.

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Interested in buying/selling a business? Join the networking group SellYourOwnBusiness… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 25, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Best Remark of the Day

"The market will dictate candidate values. I can't swim against the tide." ~ jayson seymour

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7:14am Maureen Sharib Good morning sourcers! Today is MagicMethod class chat - read "Junior" post for today's subject.

11:35am Yusuf Pathan Good Morning Maureen

11:53am jayson seymour Maureen, off the subject but I… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 24, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Tuesday Feb 24 Class Discussion: Looking for Junior-level candidates

Maureen: I have a question for you. I am looking for Field Sales candidates within Germany who are relatively junior (3-4 years) and within salary constraints. However, when we do name generation, most of the candidates that we are getting are from all levels. In that collation process, we are not able to filter the candidates. I got a person who's doing field sales with 15 years of experience and way outside my budget. At the end of the day - I got… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 24, 2009 at 8:13am — 1 Comment

Phone Call Butler

Trick #1: Phone Call Butler

Tired of paying big bucks for information? Tired of fumbling with pen and paper to write down a number? Those Google people never fail to amaze us. Now they have come up with an 800 number you can call and ask for any business in the country. They then dial it and connect to it for you.

You can use it from a land line or cell phone and, once programmed into your… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 24, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

New Search Technology

One day last summer, Google’s search engine trundled quietly past a milestone. It added the one trillionth address to the list of Web pages it knows about. But as impossibly big as that number may seem, it represents only a fraction of the entire Web. Beyond those trillion pages lies an even vaster Web of hidden data: financial information, shopping catalogs, flight schedules,… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 24, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

Hoping you'll help...

I'm a sucker for a good charity and even more so when helping that charity comes with a good time. On Saturday March 7th I'll be taking part in the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids' Sake 2009 event in Dallas, TX.

Bowl For Kids' Sake is the largest annual fundraising event for Big Brothers Big Sisters, providing funds to offer positive mentoring relationships… Continue

Added by RecruiterGuy on February 23, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

More Customers Give Up the Cellphone Contract

Maybe Tony Soprano was onto something. As the lead mobster in the HBO series “The Sopranos,” he and his crew often turned to prepaid cellphones, presumably to avoid wiretaps. A prepaid phone is purchased at a T-Mobile store in Queens. Prepaid phone sales rose 13 percent in North America last year. But now these pay-as-you-go phones are winning over fans for different… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 23, 2009 at 8:57am — No Comments

How to Make Yourself More Findable Online (Part 2)

Read my latest Brazen Careerist article with Glen Cathey (Boolean Black Belt) here.

Part… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 21, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

What Time is it in Manawatu-Wanganui?

Trick #2: What Time is it in Manawatu-Wanganui?

Want to be sure that you don't roll a valuable client or friend out of bed at 3 in the morning with your friendly voice? This handy helper gives you an easy way to compare past, current and future times and arrange calls and meetings across time zones.

You can compare time differences for up to 5 places and to accommodate reasonable timing with… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 20, 2009 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, February 19, 2009

Best Remark of the Day

"A lot of Recruiters are to eager to talk about their need and not listen to what the person really wants or needs, listening is a key element to Recruiting." ~ Annette Rinslo

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9:33am Maureen Sharib Good morning sourcers - Today (Thurs, Feb 19) is MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Class chat -we're going to talk about "people skills" today. This idea was prompted by a conversation I had this morning… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 19, 2009 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Just what are "people skills" and how valuable are they anyway?

Good morning sourcers - Today (Thurs, Feb 19) is MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Class chat - and in it we're going to talk about "people skills". This idea was prompted by a conversation I had this morning over on RBC with "Don". He's thinking about seguing out of a twenty year real estate career into recruiting in a specialized niche in the medical field working for a "one man band" who has a footing in it. Read the online exchange below and then bring… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on February 19, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments