In the Source and Hunt Battle at Emerce eRecruitment conference this has been sort of my approach in sourcing a biogenic materials manager in only 45 minutes.
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Often I got the questions, what is sourcing, what is people sourcing.
Well here is your answer:
Sourcing, people sourcing is about finding people that match the profile you are looking for.
People sourcing is about creating a list of names, matching interests to what you are looking for in a person and a way to connect with the person.
Often starts with gathering intell about the profile in general, find out what the keywords are to be able to refine your results and get the best results. After these steps you go online and decide what to look for e.g. a resume, a social network profile, or a blog where these people gather etc. Collect the names and contact details matching the profile. Than you find. Full Stop. People Sourcing part has ended.
Candidate Curation begins
In my opinion, you are curating candidates from the moment you are in touch with a person to find out whether they qualify for pre selection, from the moment they answer you question “are you interested in more details about this role” with a yes.
A yes means you can put them in your ATS for further processing the candidate till you hire or decide not to hire the person.
Once you have decided, your company is going to pay for the mortgage of this person, the label candidate drops and Employee Relationship starts.
If you decide to stop the application / hiring process with the candidate, candidate curation is still very important, talking about Employer branding here. The rejected candidate could still become you brand advocate. WOOOOT!
Candidate Curation is a very important thing
… You need to be able to cope with.
Remember, if you start advertising your candidate profile, “job ad”, you might find people in your mailbox, dm, whatsapp, linkedin, Facebook, etc that show interest in your advertised profile.
By putting your job out there, you actually are asking the question: “are you interested in more details about this role” by showing interest, the person answers with “yes”.
Please do get back to them. 
Good candidate curation gets you further in your sourcing activities, the candidates most of the time get you new sources to explore, bring in new profiles and more useful keywords. So stay connected with your sourcers if you do the candidate curation.
People sourcing and candidate curation is like … “01010000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100100 01100001 01110100 01100101 00100000 01100011 01110101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110″ … without it doesn’t work….
In the summer of 2012 we had a dream… that dream becomes truth: 12.12.2012 Working together, no matter what competition there is, Cureka, Intelligence Group, Concepts2Go, Adformatie, Gordon Lokenberg, Cammio, Recruit2, Maddle, USG, Monsterboard and Carerix, make it happen: The first Dutch Mobile Recruiting Event. Discussing, presenting and showing what is happening out there right … Keep reading
Sourcing became one of the hot topics over the past few weeks here in my blog.
I mentioned Sourcing is cool, and it is.
In the meanwhile an International People Sourcing Contest took place. The contest was spread all over the web. Guess who won this contest..
The prize I won, enter the course.. no: “I was able to immediately enter the final exam of the CPSP-Level 2″
Easy exam, I hear you thinking, .. took even me roughly a full day of work to answer the 80 questions in there … But now I am officially a Certified People Sourcing Professional Level 2.. How about that
As stated by Irina Shamaeva, Sourcing is about People, not about Technology or Innovation… And so it is, although it made sourcing a lot easier and more efficient…
Since 2007 when I started training recruiters via 2rise.nl in what sourcing is about, we were talking about internet search, but as technology moves forward, so does terminology: Internet Search… We stopped searching in the past few years and started finding. More and more information came to the internet and people left their footprint whether they know of it or not. Via scanned newspapers you even know sold his house for what price back in 1993..
We became Cybersleuths, but in the end it is all about Sourcing, the Sourcer… Of course you now start thinking about the sourcerers.. And yes Sourcers do use a little magic… But don’t tell anyone.
To meet the Winner of the “International People Sourcing Contest 2012″: Gordon Lokenberg, you can come and visit one of these events in the Netherlands:
15th of November HRtheNextLevel,
22nd of November TruAmsterdam,
6th of December DWWD, “Stop Searching, Start Finding”
Special thanks to Irina Shamaeva and her team for creating these wonderful challenges!
btw if you like to try the International People Sourcing Contest yourself. Have fun and let me know what you think of it.
Fun post!
Google data is “our data” and the data centers are state-of-art and we sourcers like to explore every public bit of data.
Well have a look around and see what kind of coolness they keep up and running for us:
Or check these Top Secret data centres on The Telegraph
Now of course you like to find out more about security, well here in this link you’ll see how the take care of that..
Now you know everything about Google data… You even might want to start using Google yourself, well if you don’t exactly know how to: start by using this service. You’ll be fine.
