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MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, October 30, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"Sites and search engines don't like spiders." ~Jason Gorham

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8:56am Maureen Sharib Good morning sourcers - Jason Gorham is going to lead the noon (EST) chat today.

8:57am Maureen Sharib He'll be answering question about his new Sharkstrike tool on how to find MORE passive candidates.

8:58am Maureen Sharib He'll be presenting on the utilization of keywords + search… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 30, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

23 Things

Columbus Library offers 23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the Web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.

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Attend the MagicMethod FREE one hour LIVE phone sourcing classroom chats on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon EST on the MagicMethod… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 29, 2008 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Sharkstrike presentation Thursday, October 30 in MagicMethod Sourcing Clasroom Chat

On Thursday, October 30 Sharkstrike's CEO Jason Gorham will be presenting on the utilization of keywords + search strings to source more candidates. In this session he will take open job orders and utilize his new tool to source on potential candidates. In this classroom chat you can learn: How Sharkstrike Keyword Tool can find more candidates

Creation of keyword campaigns

Selection of keywords to create keyword campaigns

Keyword… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 28, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"You don't always have to go through the gatekeeper to hustle more names at the same company. If you've pulled down the directory, simply plow through each one individually until you get signals that they're on to you, or, you fatigue." ~ Gary Jong

12:11am Maureen Sharib *Would you rather be a: Stream fisher Lake fisher Deep-sea fisher?

112:12am Maureen Sharib Let's talk about the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 28, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Tuesday's MagicMethod Sourcing Class Chat Subject - Catch and Release Sourcing

Catch and release is a practice within recreational fishing intended as a technique of conservation. After capture, the fish are unhooked and returned to the water before experiencing serious exhaustion or injury. According to the Wikipedia definition, using barbless hooks makes it possible to release the fish without removing it from the water (a slack line is frequently sufficient).



Catch and release has been practiced by some countries… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 27, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

How is a truly great job description crafted?

Bryan Chaney from Reaching Talent asks a good question over on LinkedIn about using marketing principles to craft more compelling job description:



How is a truly great job description crafted?



Take a look and submit your entries (there or here). This is for educational purposes, but feel free to have fun with this question. Where have you… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 8:39am — No Comments

What's In a Title?

What looks to be an interesting topic of discussion is posed by Peter Coussement CAPM, Project Manager at Volvo IT over on LinkedIn - he asks:

Which corporations have the most strict hierarchy in the US and Europe? Some examples? Funny stories of what you have experienced with hierarchy in the US and Europe?

The answers are starting to come in… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 24, 2008 at 8:38am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, October 23, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"Actually I have made a lot more as a full time name sourcer than I ever did as a recruiter and the $$ are much more consistent." ~ Tom Cook

11:57am Maureen Sharib Have you all read the LinkedIn sourcing tools… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 23, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"Unfortunately the majority of companies feel that Sourcing is a luxury...something all Recruiters should be able to do on their own." ~Paul Davenport



5:54am Maureen Sharib Today we'll be talking about recruiters and sourcers being fired - bring your tales to class today and we'll figger it all out! Workers are postponing active job search - Workers are taking measures to improve prospects down the… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 21, 2008 at 1:30pm — No Comments

The Coming Pink-Slip Epidemic

When the dot-com and housing bubbles burst, it was easy to see what types of jobs would disappear. But these days as nervous lenders cower and credit contracts, virtually every industry is likely to be scathed in the widely predicted downturn starting this autumn. Nearly every business relies on credit to operate -- just as they need customers to have spending… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 21, 2008 at 10:32am — No Comments

Sourcing Chat TODAY

SunMicro is firing and then hiring - an ERE post yesterday reported that SunMicro let all their recruiters and sourcers go and then told them to re-apply (if they still wanted to work there) and that they would be "reconsidered" according to skills. I wonder what the re-hire "terms"will be?



"Sun has announced the need to reduce overall spending in its fiscal year 2009, including a reduction in headcount."

Read more… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 21, 2008 at 7:46am — No Comments

Sourcing Ideas Wanted

Intelestream is asking for help in developing a sourcing application product called Perpetual Sourcing. With the help of sourcers Todd Davis and Shally Sterckerl, we have developed Perpetual Sourcing V2 - an application that is intended to fully automize the sourcing process.



They're looking for help on Version 3 - can you assist?



A couple questions that would be helpful to us now, if you don't mind helping:

1)… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 20, 2008 at 6:37am — No Comments

What is a generally accepted “finder's fee” for Mergers and Acquisitions?

Interesting Linkedin discussion going on now.

What is a generally accepted “finders fee” for Mergers and Acquisitions? In the course of my recruiting business I am, on occasion, asked to keep my eyes open for a company that would have some interest in being acquired. I cannot claim an expertise in M&A issues outside being very tapped into decision makers in… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 19, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Be the Deliberate Creator of Your Life

1. Commit to building a "prosperity" mindset

2. Adopt the beliefs of success

3. Be clear on what you want

4. Clear away any opposing beliefs

5. Take inspired action not frantic action

When you are proactive, you don't focus on what the economy or the market is doing, you are coming from an internal state of prosperity consciousness. You don't look to outer conditions to determine your state of mind, you determine your own… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 19, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Recruiting (Sourcing?) Ads That Get Attention

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success." Not much of a sell job is it? Nevertheless, when this ad was run by the polar explorer, Ernest Shackelton, men started walking across England to get to him. More than 5,000 applied. ******

Need telephone names sourcing to fill your hard-to-fill positions? Call the experts… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 19, 2008 at 8:43am — No Comments

FREE Sourcing Cheat Sheet and FREE Food - Beat that!

Dan Harris of NetApps is presenting at the Silicon Valley Roadshow and he'll be giving away his sourcing cheat sheet. Don't miss Dan - this is a guy you can't help but like!

It's FREE and they're giving away FREE food as well!

All you have to do is show up. You can do that, can't you?

Here are the information… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 17, 2008 at 9:53am — No Comments

MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

Best Remark of the Day

"I would LOVE it if someone told me that I could let someone else do the sourcing for me." ~ James LeMaster

11:59am james LeMaster Hey all!

11:59am Denyse Diem Hello James!

11:59am james LeMaster So, this is my first time here...

12:00am Maureen Sharib Hi James and everyone! WELCOME to the MagicMethod Phone Sourcing class!

12:00am Denyse Diem I've tried to be here for the past few… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 17, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

New Products Sourcers Might Consider Offering

12:15pm Maureen Sharib I sked this morning about new products we sourcers might offer in this downturn...

12:16pm Todd Burkhardt sales leads

12:16pm Maureen Sharib as you can all see - I used Dan's idea from last week and created a new TechTrak product - FindOut! out of it...already I've had ONE inquiry! It’s a product that updates a customer’s database.

12:16pm Todd Burkhardt organizational benchmarking

12:16pm Paul Davenport… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 16, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Questions You Should Ask a Sourcer

On Tuesday's MagicMethod Class chat we got to talking about what questions one should ask a sourcer that one was contemplating hiring. Following are the suggestions:



Paul Davenport Cyber Sourcing is getting less and less expensive to companies because many are off shoring or… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 16, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Maureen, Help Me!

Maureen, Help me!!! I dont know how to use boolean searches on google or alta vista (well atleast not well enough) to find great candidates. What do I need to do to get up to speed? How do search engines fit into recruiting? Thanks ~ Akbar (Code X)



Stacie Gates answers, in this string over on ERE. There's more in the string… Continue

Added by Maureen Sharib on October 16, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

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