Overview
With so much “people info” available on the web, and so many hot new tools for candidate sourcing, it can quickly be overwhelming. This workshop will focus on filtering out the noise and using the right tools to find the candidates you need, fast.
What to Expect
In this interactive sourcing workshop, we’ll explore how recruiters can locate relevant candidate leads quickly and without the need for complex searches.
Who should attend
Every sourcer who wants to take the complexity out of the online candidate search and find the tools that work for them.
Takeaways
• Learn about the less traveled sites where sourcers can quickly produce targeted leads without complex searches.
• Cut the time you need to meet your sourcing goals
• Find the best free resources for locating quality candidates
• Leverage uncommon sites to find “people info”
• Be bold and move beyond just searching for resumes
Overview
You’re feeling pretty good about your ability to write advanced search strings and find passive candidates. Now it’s time to get high value leads to respond to your calls, emails, Inmails, tweets, texts and bat signals.
What to Expect
In this practical, interactive workshop you’ll learn how to develop targeted messages that get results.
Who should attend
Sourcers and recruiters who are interested in improving response rates from passive candidates.
Takeaways
• Uncover the keys to increasing response rates
• Overcome objections and create win-win outcomes
• Learn the three important steps to effective candidate engagement
Overview
Email has been our consistent friend from the dawn of UseNet and Myspace to the age of virtual reality but, despite our long history with it, recruiters haven’t yet leveraged all of email’s value.
What to Expect
Jim Stroud will detail the history of email, speculate on its evolution and share tips and strategies for making the most of a medium recruiters tend to take for granted.
Who should attend
Any recruiter who uses email and wants to learn how to make it work harder.
Takeaways
• Practical tips for managing your email
• Building better email recruitment marketing campaigns
• New ways to use and think about the humble email
Overview
Sourcing is a wide and varied practice and not all sourcing strategies or reqs are created equal. Certain candidate roles are not common on LinkedIn, and a string for LinkedIn, Monster or your ATS is not the same as a string for Twitter. The what, where and how of your search will define your success.
What to Expect
In this session we'll show you what happens when that beautiful sourcing strategy that you have comes crashing down in the face of reality. Not to fear, though...we'll also show you solutions!
Who should attend
Recruiters looking for more options and new ideas for when the typical search approach doesn’t work.
Takeaways
• Learn why there’s no such thing as an “unusable” site
• New ideas for sourcing strategies for different roles and resources
SeekOut is a new talent sourcing tool that helps you discover and reach passive candidates faster. Find relevant candidates across our database of over 100M US professionals using rich, faceted search. Once you’ve found potential candidates, we use our deep knowledge of candidate profiles to help you narrow down the list, find their personal email addresses, and export all their profile data so it can be integrated into your existing workflow.
We’re excited to launch at SourceCon this year and would love to show you what we’ve built and get feedback from the best sourcers in the industry! We’re offering instant access to our preview release for SourceCon attendees during the show, so make sure to stop by our table or booth and sign up for free.
Overview
Before the rise of social networks, Google search and video messaging, there were classified ads, mailing lists and job hotlines. What has changed, what has remained the same, and what can we learn from the way things were?
What to Expect
Maisha Cannon will take us on a trip down memory lane with and revisit classic search techniques
Who should attend
This session is for nostalgia geeks and newer recruiters looking to learn from the past.
Takeaways
• Then vs now comparisons – what can we learn?
• Importance of investing in techniques, not tools
SeekOut is a new talent sourcing tool that helps you discover and reach passive candidates faster. Find relevant candidates across our database of over 100M US professionals using rich, faceted search. Once you’ve found potential candidates, we use our deep knowledge of candidate profiles to help you narrow down the list, find their personal email addresses, and export all their profile data so it can be integrated into your existing workflow.
We’re excited to launch at SourceCon this year and would love to show you what we’ve built and get feedback from the best sourcers in the industry! We’re offering instant access to our preview release for SourceCon attendees during the show, so make sure to stop by our table or booth and sign up for free.
Overview
Often, hiring managers know they need talent, but that’s about the extent of it. Taking a bold approach and leading your decision makers through the interview process can yield great results.
What to Expect
In this session, we’ll explore how to take a bold approach and work with hiring managers to develop a consistent and measurable recruiting process to increase quality of hire.
Who should attend
Recruiters who want to take the lead in developing a more strategic partnership with hiring managers.
Takeaways
• Lead your decision makers through the process
• Educate managers on hiring trends and talent
• Provide the insight, definitions of success and leadership that will help you stand out in the recruiting process
Sourcers often recruit programmers to create products that drive their company forward, but what if you could do the same to drive your company's recruiting forward? Numerous opportunities exist to go beyond or fill gaps that off-the-shelf software cannot provide, at no cost. While you won't emerge from this session as a top coder, you'll learn how to scale the initial barriers to take your career to the next level and make you uniquely (in)valuable to employers:
Overview
The reasons some people get hired and some don't is a mystery on par with the Yeti, the sauce on a Big Mac and what the heck was the Island on Lost. But getting the right person to the right point? That is something a Sourcer can do. Integral to this is building strong relationships with hiring managers.
What to Expect
A good Sourcer needs as much information as possible. Jeff will walk you through how to get what you need from a hiring manager and recruiter.
Who should attend
Sourcers and recruiters looking for practical tips on building and strengthening their hiring manager relationships.
Takeaways
• Learn how to hear what is being said – and not said- in job descriptions and post-interview feedback
• How to develop relationships that will help you personally and professionally
• How to build relationships that will last your entire career
Overview
Just like anything that dominates in the market Google will dictate to you what they want you to see, not what you want to see. Redirect your sourcing subconscious to include other search engines.
What to Expect
In this session, we’ll explore ten search engines that might give you talent and other data that you won’t find on Google.
Who should attend
Any recruiter who wants to extend their search capabilities beyond the usual.
Takeaways
• Learn how search engines dictate what they want you to see
• Ten alternative search engines for a different view on talent discovery
Overview
We know social recruiting uses social media profiles, blogs, and other internet sites to find information on candidates and engage with them about opportunities - but before we get to that point, before we begin sourcing - we need to do a little bit of research first.
What to Expect
This session will walk recruiters through creating a “research design framework” and incorporating this blueprint for understanding, selecting, and integrating resource methodologies into your workflow.
Who should attend
Recruiters looking to create a more structured, effective approach to social recruiting.
Takeaways
• Talent Mapping (How to gather talent market data and create into actionable insights)
• Utilizing competitive intelligence research to reveal the big picture
• How to work with Hiring Manager(s) to support with data collection
• Understanding candidate personas to support research
As sourcers most of our toolbox has a large number of chrome extensions already. Have you ever thought how they are made or had an idea for one that is useful for just your sourcing desk?
Who Should Attend?
Whether you are making the jump into learning code or just curious about the possibilities of chrome extensions this session will walk through the building of a basic and advanced chrome extension.
What Are the Takeaways?
Overview
No vendor budget? No problem! When leveraged strategically, company web pages, industry associations, and event and conference sites are excellent (and unintentional!) places to kick-off searches while building target candidate, company & keyword lists.
What to Expect
During this session you will learn how to conduct basic internet research to create target candidate and company lists using only public web sites and novice search techniques.
Who should attend
Recruiters who are interested in making their budget dollars stretch a little further.
Takeaways
• Learn about searches that can be applied across Industry, domain and target experience level
• Tips and techniques for making every recruiting dollar count
Overview
The Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals has a primary goal of establishing a Body of Knowledge for the profession, which in turn will help to establish common standards for education, measurement and ethics. To establish this Body of Knowledge, ATAP will be gathering quantitative and qualitative data from a variety of sources, including working sessions at conferences such as SourceCon.
What to Expect
Join us for a working session (meaning that all those who attend are expected to participate and get to work) to discuss and debate which sourcing metrics most effectively measure performance and outcomes, and which variables should be included in those measurements.
Bring your data, the measurements you currently use, and be ready to share and discuss this important topic that is essential to advancing how sourcing is commonly understood and managed.
Who should attend
Experienced professionals
Takeaways
Play a part in creating a common set of measurements that can be used to drive greater consistency and more effective benchmarking of sourcing moving forward.
Networking is easy with good food, drinks and some lively entertainment. Don’t miss this chance to connect with your peers. Sponsored by Avature and the ERE Foundation!
Overview
A quick Google search for "Recruiters are..." will show you what many people think of recruiters. Negative stereotypes are spread across the industry and are often a roadblock to success as we're reaching out to candidates, working with hiring managers and trying to do our best work. What can we do to up our game and change perception across the board?
What to Expect
In this keynote session, Stacy Zapar will share her personal struggles with recruiter perception and some solutions.
Who should attend
Any recruiter who has ever been the victim of negative stereotyping (in other words, everyone).
Takeaways
• What’s behind the negative stereotypes
• How to overcome the critics
• What it takes to be a truly great recruiter in today’s challenging marketplace
Overview
Faced with the challenge of rapid, global growth, Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, took a novel approach to in-housing the talent research function.
What to Expect
In this keynote, Tyler Golden will share how she effectively piloted a unique operational model, to provide cost effective, scalable services to the global recruiting team as well as the hiring manager community.
Who should attend
Recruitment leaders interested in improving their talent acquisition operational model.
Takeaways
• A fresh look at the operational model
• How Red Hat changed their approach to provide cost effective and scalable services to recruiters and hiring managers
DataMiner - https://data-miner.io/
Data Miner lets users extract information from any website and save it as a csv or excel file. It has pre-made scraping scripts (called recipes) that work on most popular sites and let users extract and save info with just one click. Make and customize recipes with the Recipe Creator in just about 5 minutes for any website. Data Miner is free to use for small jobs and they have paid plans for larger ones.
SeekOut is a new talent sourcing tool that helps you discover and reach passive candidates faster. Find relevant candidates across our database of over 100M US professionals using rich, faceted search. Once you’ve found potential candidates, we use our deep knowledge of candidate profiles to help you narrow down the list, find their personal email addresses, and export all their profile data so it can be integrated into your existing workflow.
We’re excited to launch at SourceCon this year and would love to show you what we’ve built and get feedback from the best sourcers in the industry! We’re offering instant access to our preview release for SourceCon attendees during the show, so make sure to stop by our table or booth and sign up for free.
Fuel up for the afternoon sessions - just don’t get so busy chatting you forget to eat!
Before technology, a sourcer’s net worth was determined by the names and cards placed in their personal Rolodex. As technology has advanced the need for a personal Rolodex became irrelevant as sourcers did just that, sourced. This created an abundance of administrative work. From scheduling to screening, to job boards, technology has reshaped the industry. This session will take a look into what it was like before sourcers were called sourcers and you’ll take a journey through different recruiting eras and be left with one thought, are we back where we started?
Overview
Sourcers and Recruiters are under enormous pressure and time constraints to produce viable candidates. Your ability to be resourceful, scrappy, and make use of the tools at hand, not commonly used by others, will give you a competitive advantage. Unleash your inner MacGyver!
What to Expect
In this session, we’ll combine a few well know free tools and add creative twists to innovate on conventional methods, to discover a wealth of solutions that even a brilliant secret agent would admire.
Who should attend
Recruiters and sourcers looking for some new twists on some well-known tools.
Takeaways
• Combine extensions to scrape data and find emails in a fraction of the time
• Reengineer your searches to source candidates faster and for free
• Manipulate Google filters find executives, conference attendees and entire teams
Overview
The combination of logic, keywords, and platform-dependent operators, collectively referred to as Boolean search, can daunt novice and experienced recruiters alike, but it shouldn't. All search is a learning process. The key to effective learning is to ask the right questions. When you're asking the right questions, everything else starts to fall into place.
What to Expect
In this session, we’ll explore the best questions to ask, as well as the right searches (Boolean and otherwise) to answer them.
Who should attend
Any recruiter who’s ever faced a Boolean crisis of confidence.
Takeaways
• Learn about the questions that can help us identify and engage people
• Match the right questions to the right search strategy
The Internet has a gazillionbytes of data. You can find what someone had for breakfast today. Or if they are attending a conference. You could follow their trail of breadcrumbs online.
But how do you get this data? You could easily spend hours capturing and cleaning data to make it useful. - Attend and find out!
Who should attend?
This session is for anybody that finds this data helpful. Are you a sourcer, a recruiter or a hiring manager? Then this process will blow away your mind.
What are the takeaways?
In this session you will learn how to capture and clean data using Bash, Ruby and Python. You will learn how to scrape data, automate capturing data and convert into a format that will help you make decisions.
At the end of the session you will have a better understanding of the universe.
Overview
Brush up on the basics of sourcing from methodologies to organizing search results and communicating with your sourcing partners?
What to Expect
This is not an advanced course on sourcing. Todd will give the practical and the tactical of sourcing and put the fun back into sourcing fundamentals.
Who should attend
People that are new to sourcing or need to break bad sourcing habits.
Takeaways
• Sourcing methodology (source right the first time)
• Laying a successful search foundation
• Tools that help organize your search
• Tools and techniques that return results but don’t randomized your time
• Effective communication in sourcing
Overview
In our industry, we often talk about company culture as a way to attract candidates but we sometimes overlook the culture that exists within our own teams. What does that culture look like? How do we define it? How does it affect our day-to-day operations?
What to Expect
In this session, we will take a look at the profound impact that our sourcing culture can have on our business.
Who should attend
Sourcing leaders interested developing a team culture that will help achieve business goals.
Takeaways
• Ways to impact your sourcing culture
• Building collaboration among TA teams
• Methods to assess and measure your culture
Can you believe it’s almost over? Last chance to exchange cards, ask questions or compare notes.
Overview
Facebook Messenger, KiK, Skype, Slack, WhatsApp, YouTube, Venmo, and Amazon are all powerful social networks that rely upon the IRC clients of the 90's. Even with end-to-end encryption, there are ample ways to find your way into these networks, develop relationships with candidates, and extract contact information.
What to Expect
Brian Fink walks you through how to open them up to cultivate candidate engagement.
Who should attend
Recruiters who are interested in using IRC to extend their searches.
Takeaways
• How to open up social networks based on IRC clients of the 90's
• Using social networks to develop relationships and find contact Information for candidates
You have a great idea and the know how of what needs to be built. How do you do it? What is the first step? What are the pitfalls to avoid?
In this session, Donato will lay out practical processes that were used to build products at Broadlook and Later RingLead Inc. Donato's creations support over 10,000 recruiting and sales clients worldwide. In this session, Donato will cover:
Who should attend?
Recruiters that want to get more into the technical side. You don't have to be a programmer to get something out of this session. The core message is leverage your strengths and learn tips and tricks that will allow you to collaboratively bring your idea to realization.
Overview
In today’s recruitment environment, everyone has short attention spans. Get the most out of your emails with eye-catching pictures, funny memes, and gifs.
What to Expect
In this session, we’ll explore how to use pictures and gifs to increase your email open rates and how to automate and optimize the follow ups.
Who should attend
Every recruiter who wants to try out new ways to increase email open rates.
Takeaways
• Where to find, and how to use pictures, memes, and gifs
• How to automate follow up to work smarter, not harder
Overview
How the Walt Disney Company launched a sourcing function for the enterprise.
What to Expect
The speaker will share the experience of launching a Sourcing Center of Excellence including lessons learned, best practices and the future vision for sourcing at The Walt Disney Company.
Who should attend
Sourcers interested in the ins and outs of creating a Sourcing Center of Excellence for their companies.
Takeaways
• Lessons learned and best practices for a Sourcing Center of Excellence
• The critical role that fundamentals played, and continue to play, in successful sourcing at The Walt Disney Company
Overview
You know we all want to cover as much as the Web as we can when seeking out talented prospects and our time is limited. You’ve heard it time and time again, “Where’s my pipeline of candidates?". Or you’re a Sourcer and your Recruiting team needs more pipeline; preferably not involving LinkedIn...What to do..?
What to Expect
In this Advanced session we’ll quickly review the basics of building a CSE and then jump head first into the Advanced features. I’m not going to build out one search but create a platform of multiple searches designed to seek out any skill set regardless of industry. We’ll also cover Google Dorks and explore the ethical hacking side of Google’s Advanced search operators (related, URL Patterns, site, cache, filetype, intext, numrange, etc) while creating complex search engine queries to incorporate into our CSE. This session is intended for Sourcers looking to build a CSE for their recruiting team - how to build and what to include for maximum candidate traction.
Who should attend
People who know what CSE is and have preferrably made one before. We’re going to move quickly and share lots of information, but please heed this warning - this session is in the Advanced Track and therefore not intended for the faint hearted! You’ve been warned!!!
Takeaways
• Quick review of the basics of building a CSE and then a jump into the advanced features
• How you can use ethical hacking with Google’s advance search operators to create more complex searches
Overview
How did we search in the past, and where are we spending most of our time today?
What to Expect
A brief history of sourcing tools and methodologies, and how we got to the tools we use today. We’ll also explore the trends that are shaping sourcing tools to get a glimpse into our future.
Who should attend
Recruiters who want to revisit older methods and current tools and get a jump start on the future.
Takeaways
• The tools you need to succeed today
• The trends that will shape the next sourcing tools
Overview
The HR and Recruiting landscape is changing quickly. You need effective strategies and tools to help navigate the shifts.
What to Expect
In this session, we’ll cover strategies for mapping out your recruiting workflow, selecting new tools, and evaluating the efficacy of your existing tools.
Who should attend
This session is ideal for sourcers who are just starting to select or reevaluate their sourcing toolbox.
Takeaways
• Equip yourself and your team with the tools you need to succeed
• Map out a new workflow, and evaluate and select recruiting tools
Overview
Sourcing and recruiting leader Alaina Rivas of Insperity will walk through lessons learned through her journey of building and managing a high-performance sourcing team.
What to Expect
Alaina will share her insights and provide tips and techniques that you can use to manage your own career journey.
Who should attend
Recruiters and sourcers interested in learning from Alaina’s experience.
Takeaways
• How to build a high-performance sourcing team
• Tips for managing and developing your team
