Maureen Sharib does an excellent job of explaining sourcing and its importance in recruiting effectively. Maureen writes:
What Sourcing Is:
- Process Organization
- Calling into companies to find potential candidates that might fill your open positions
- Calling people in your own influence sphere who might connect you to others who might fill your open positions
- Learning, always learning, new ways
- Speaking up and out in your community on the subject - you can do this in a variety of ways
- Utilizing imaginative and innovative Internet search techniques that take you deeper, and more fully, in contact with potential candidates than anyone else
Maureen calls sourcing, “The pathway to recruiting success.”
What interests me most about sourcing is that I see a ton of opportunity to help sourcers with their efforts through software. You can’t replace hard work at the snap of your fingers, but every time I’ve ever done any amount of sourcing it’s been tedious, slow and repetitive. Trying to bring some new functionality to sourcing - be it with automated searches, matching, etc. - seems like a great opportunity.
We’ve started to provide some basics to make things easier for sourcers, by offering a bookmarklet tool called “Talent Scout” which allows you to bookmark any Web page you find into Reception. This won’t “save the day” but it’s one step towards helping manage the process of sourcing, and keeping track of a lot of candidate information. And I think there’s much more we can do…
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