MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Classroom Chat Log Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008

[Maureen Sharib]

Best Remark of the Day
"Maureen did you know that I hugged Gopi?" ~ Recruiting Animal

7:15am Maureen Sharib Good morning sourcers! Today is phone sourcing class right here in chat on the MagicMethod network. Today we'll be talking about new products we sourcers can offer our customers...
PreClass Chatter
11:52am Maureen Sharib Hi Todd Got any ideas for today's class?
11:53am Maureen Sharib I was thinking about having a homework segment on this class thing...
11:53am Maureen Sharib Any ideas?
11:54am Todd Burkhardt How to overcome the sloppy work of other sourcers
11:54am Todd Burkhardt How to reinforce that we are a partner, not someone looking to replace internal teams
11:55am Todd Burkhardt Or I guess maybe overcoming common objections?
11:56am John Moed Good Morning!
11:56am Maureen Sharib Hi John - long time no see!
11:57am Maureen Sharib sloppy work Todd? What do you mean? Give example
11:57am John Moed I've been laying low
11:57am Todd Burkhardt Companies that are turned off by research because they have been burned in the past is what I meant
11:57am Maureen Sharib That's a cutie pie in red
11:57am Maureen Sharib I KNOW Todd!
11:57am Maureen Sharib I get that all the time!
11:57am John Moed I get that all the time too!
11:58am Maureen Sharib How do you counter?
11:58am Todd Burkhardt More often than not I would bet it is cyber sourcers
11:58am Maureen Sharib I agree.
11:58am Maureen Sharib You can't go THAT FAR OFF TRACK on the phone.
11:58am Maureen Sharib Or can you?
11:58am Maureen Sharib ;)
11:58am John Moed I usually tell them that we offer a short trial of our services so they can see the quality of our work
11:58am Maureen Sharib free?
11:59am Todd Burkhardt +1
11:59am John Moed 2 hours free
11:59am Todd Burkhardt If I have it, I send an example out of their company
11:59am Maureen Sharib Phone work or database stuff?
11:59am Maureen Sharib I bet that's effective Todd
11:59am Maureen Sharib and a good idea.
11:59am John Moed Phone
11:59am Todd Burkhardt Sometimes. Some people are offended.
11:59am Maureen Sharib There's a segment out there that goes around trying to get us sourcers to do a job "for free' to 'test" our work.
12:00pm Maureen Sharib This is ONE or TWO bad characters and I always warn against it.
Class Chat starts
12:00pm Maureen Sharib Welcome everyone to MagicMethod Phone Sourcing Class!
12:00pm John Moed I don't offer to give it out free, if they like the work, I tell them that we can go to 10 hours and then I charge them
12:02pm Recruiting Animal Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving
12:02pm Recruiting Animal Today is election day
12:02pm Paul Davenport Canada's new slogan, "One step ahead of America!"
12:02pm Maureen Sharib there?
12:02pm Maureen Sharib what do you eat on Thanksgiving RA?
12:03pm Maureen Sharib Is it like here in America?
12:03pm Maureen Sharib Anyone here think CyberSourcers are giving the rest of us a bad rap?
12:04pm Maureen Sharib Todd thinks so...
12:04pm Maureen Sharib How to counter?
12:04pm Todd Burkhardt Some, cyber sourcers
12:04pm Paul Davenport CyberSourcers as in a brand name or general Internet Sourcing?
12:04pm Todd Burkhardt general internet sourcers
12:04pm Maureen Sharib general Internet sourcing
12:05pm Recruiting Animal I didn't really celebrate. It's no big deal. Not like for you guys who hype it up
12:05pm Andy Wileman Really? I have not encountered this issue, Then again I wouldn't consider myself either a cyber or brand.
12:05pm Maureen Sharib Looks like a brand name though Paul - you're right...
12:05pm Maureen Sharib You don't hear that term that much anymore Cyber
12:05pm Maureen Sharib at least I don't...
12:05pm Ryan Haire Hey Andy---
12:05pm Andy Wileman hi ryan
12:05pm Maureen Sharib Andy Are you a sourcer?
12:05pm Andy Wileman I am a researcher mostly
12:06pm Maureen Sharib explain...
12:06pm Andy Wileman I do a lot of name gen - using both phone and net
12:06pm Paul Davenport Cyber Sourcing is getting less and less expensive to companies because many are off shoring or lowering their prices to stay competitive.
12:06pm Maureen Sharib They get what they're paying for?
12:06pm Paul Davenport The problem is that cyber sourcing creates data that recruiters need to sift through.
12:07pm Maureen Sharib If you were hiring a sourcer -what questions would you ask?

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