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Maureen Sharib's Blog – January 2010 Archive (16)

Corporate Sourcers/Recruiters: Do you collect competitive intelligence on competitors in your industry to make sourcing efforts more effective?

Sourcers Guild member Bill Kaminsky is asking (over in the Sourcers Guild group on LinkedIn) :

How do you collect competitive intelligence for internal company use? Please share best practices.

Recently my Talent Acquisition team decided a big effort in 2010 is to gather competitive intelligence. I'd be interested in hearing how anyone has approached this in the past or currently works to gather such information and what exactly… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 31, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Step-by-step instructions on how to call a hiring manager

Mike: Hi Bill, I’m Mike Ramer. We traded messages last week. I’m President of my search firm in Northern New Jersey – in the New York area. We specialize in working with mid-to-senior management in your industry. We’ve been at it for 18 years and have established relationships with leading firms and have deep contacts in your area. I hope all worked out for you last week. You mentioned you had a family emergency?

Mike Ramer walks us… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 27, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

Frank Scarpelli tells us what a full life cycle recruiter is and Shally joins him to talk about sourcing!

HEAR the TalkSourcing show w/ Frank and Shally here.

Fellow MagicMethod member and Chicagoan Frank Scarpelli advises us what's what in this short MagicMethod "chat" lesson, Frank will be the featured guest on BlogTalkRadio's TalkSourcing on the January 28, 2010 show and he's going to be… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 27, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Disaster Planning in Haiti

What can be done?

I just received an email forwarded by a trauma surgeon at WVU Med Center, from another trauma surgeon explaining his group's attempt to help in Haiti. I hope this isn't too long to post- it was very interesting to me:

I believe we went in with a reasonably comprehensive service; we wanted to provide acute trauma care in an orthopedic disaster. Our plan was to be at a hospital where we could utilize our abilities as… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 25, 2010 at 2:30am — 2 Comments

What's Happening Now? Sourcers Available

November and December brought a flurry of sourcing activity to us and I thought maybe...just maybe...this long dry spell was over. Now things have slowed again and I'm casting about tryin' to figger things out. I don't know if this thing CAN be figgered out. What about you? Have you seen any increase/decrease and where are you seeing it? Tell us here in the contents section what's happening with you. As a reminder, tell us what your specialties are… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 22, 2010 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

"I am thinking about outsourcing a position for an e-recruiter/sourcer/researcher to a low cost country..."

Here's a LinkedIn discussion (in a LinkedIn group - you may need to join!) I imagine many of you would be interested in:

"I am thinking about outsourcing a position for an e-recruiter / sourcer / researcher to a low cost country. Does anyone have any tips/experiences?"

Go… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 20, 2010 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Jerry vs Mo Show

I think you guys will love this. I did!

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 20, 2010 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Anyone know of any phone sourcers or sourcing companies in Hong Kong or Singapore?

I received this email - thought maybe you all might be able to help!

Hi Maureen - am hoping you might be able to help with pointing me in the right direction. Do you know of any phone sourcers or sourcing companies in Hong Kong or Singapore?

Thanks!

Tania Hanna

Supervisor of Firmwide HR and Recruiting

O'Melveny & Myers LLP

400 S. Hope Street

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Phone: (213) 430-6664

Fax: (213)… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 14, 2010 at 5:22pm — 1 Comment

Irina Goes Deep

One of our own members, Irina Shamaeva gives us Deep into the Web: a Brief Guide for Recruiters. Here.
"Do online sourcing right, and you are more often on the phone with the right people!"

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 13, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Top Ten Phone Sourcing Rules

Rule #1: Say hello and state your name.

Rule #2: Repeat her name back to her.

Rule #3: Ask for one thing at a time.

Rule #4: Don’t lie.

Rule #5: Listen and hear what’s in the Gatekeeper’s voice.

Rule #6: Never, ever, ever argue with the Gatekeeper.

Rule #7: Understand that phone sourcing may not, and very well might not, be your cup of tea.

Rule #8: Lose the stinkin’ thinkin’.

Rule #9: Be humble.

Rule #10:… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 13, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

"A rising tide floats all boats."

I received this "good news" post in my email. It's from Jack Perkins of Oryx Search and was posted on the Yahoo group sfrecruiters.

Posted by: "Jack Perkins" kcajsnikrep@yahoo.com Fri Jan 8, 2010 3:59 pm (PST)

Perhaps most recruiters' moods are buoyant already but for what it is worth:

I talked to a well placed executive at a local semiconductor capital equipment company today (one of the obvious top 3 in our neighborhood)and… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 9, 2010 at 5:08am — No Comments

Hey! You talkin' to me?

There was a recent ~~post~~ scolding harangue on one of the networks that started off as a lambasting against people who spend time on other social networks (like Twitter) that descended quickly into an angry and bitter outlash at what the mightily aggrieved author considered half-ass trainers that were sourcers or recruiters – it went on and on about how those that can’t do something teach and – well, you know the drill. One paragraph seemed to be… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 8, 2010 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

Round 1 "Sourcing (the starting point) is in no way even in the same LEAGUE as Selling" ~ Jerry Albright

¡Ole!

It started out simply enough. I replied to a twitter that the Recruiting Animal had posted regarding a discussion Jerry Albright had been having with someone. Animal said:

“@Jerry_Albright doesn't think sourcing is the key part of recruiting - selling is”

I casually announced, thinking I… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 7, 2010 at 12:00pm — 6 Comments

Gonzo Sourcing and the Evolution of Online Social Networks by Shally Steckerl

Many people try to convince you that our role will disappear so they can sell you a new product or appear to be smarter than you, and that’s ok. Others try to rename what we do just to appear different, and that’s cool too. Why? Because in the final analysis, the nature of the activities we conduct as we find, identify and reach out to the talent employers desperately seek does constantly and drastically evolve yet our role remains critical.… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 6, 2010 at 2:14pm — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"Sure, the candidates you can't find are candidates who do not mention in their resume or profile what you assume they will say and search for." ~ Glen Cathey

11:58am Maureen Sharib Irina, when did you start that LI Boolean group?

11:59am Glen Cathey I will also post the cheat sheet to… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 1, 2010 at 9:03am — 1 Comment

SHALLY CHAT LOG -MagicMethod Classroom Chat Log Thursday, May 22, 2008

Best Remark of the Day “Sarah - the Sourcing in 10 minutes or less is what any recruiter should be able to do - get results in 10 minutes and get back on the phone.” ~ Shally Steckerl

Site: www.MagicMethod.ning.com

Guest: Shally Steckerl, http://jobmachine.net/card

NOTE FROM THE STENO POOL: Shally said that the chat software we were… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on January 1, 2010 at 8:54am — No Comments