Entelo announced today that they have received $3.5 million in financing led by Battery Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures. The money will be used for growth and research and development efforts, with a primary focus on developing additional products that will leverage the company’s data set and “predictive analytics engine.”

Entelo, which launched in October of 2012, indexes data found on sites like StackOverflow, Quora, and Twitter, and uses that data to build a complete candidate profile like the one seen below. (more…)

If you’re like most sourcers or recruiters, you’ve probably got about another twenty tabs already open on your browser in addition to this one. Fifteen of those, at least, will be hooked up to candidate databases like job boards, an ATS, or LinkedIn. Keeping all these windows open only makes sense (even if it makes browsing a bit slower).

After all, remembering all those passwords and usernames, much less using them to log in every time, is both a huge pain and a huge time suck. Tabs make it at least a little big easier to look at candidates side by side from different sources, even if their results (not to mention candidate relevance and ranking) display completely differently.

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Always in motion is the future. — Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

If Facebook is the social lounge, then LinkedIn is the post-conference after party. It has disrupted the recruitment profession in the way recruiters perform their work. It’s one of the more valuable sourcing tools in the toolkit (see graphic). It’s not the only but currently the most important. (more…)

As the great Aussie anthem from the band Men at Work – Down Under says, “Do you come from the land down under? Where beer does flow and men ….” well enough of that!

It’s great to have the opportunity to share the sourcing “lay of the land down under” with the SourceCon readers.

In Australia, during the last five years, internal recruitment departments have matured significantly, and are providing many companies with a robust and consistent recruitment approach. Until recently, the one area that had been neglected, or seen as too difficult, was sourcing. (more…)

Anyone who has struggled to find a job has heard the old adage plenty of times: “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” At the same time, as you work to source qualified talent for your organization, you’ve likely experienced something very similar. At a time when people are connected like never before, recruiting success is often dependent upon who you know and who those people know, and acting on those connections.

The goal of any sourcing program is to find the right people at all levels who can help the organization achieve its objectives. Therefore, the act of sourcing shouldn’t be limited to just one person or department. In order to find the best candidates, you should enlist the help of all employees in a truly collaborative process. With such an approach, you will be able to benefit from the connections of the entire company, making it easier to identify people with the right skills and experience. (more…)

Last night, we ran a challenge to win free passes to the Talent 42 conference which takes place later this month in Seattle.

The Challenge

Use your Boolean skills to search the SourceCon site and tell us who the top 3 all-time guest contributors are (based on the number of posts they have written). Your answers should not include any current or past ERE/SourceCon employees (Lance Haun, AmyBeth Hale, John Zappe). Submit your answers via email.  The first person to submit the top 3 contributors, in order, with the number of posts they have written, will receive one free conference registration valued at $895 (travel to Seattle is not included).  If the winner has already purchased a pass to Talent 42, they can gift the new ticket to a friend.  The second person to submit the correct answer will receive one free registration with the purchase of a registration to the event. (more…)

This contest is complete, winners will be announced shortly. (6/12/2013)

SourceCon is excited to be a media partner for this years Talent 42 conference.  Today, we are announcing a sourcing challenge to give our readers the opportunity to win a free ticket to the event, which will take place on June 27 and 28, in Seattle.

What is Talent 42?

Talent 42 is the first conference designed specifically for tech recruiters and tech hiring managers. In 2012, companies like Zynga, Facebook, Groupon, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Target, Costco, Federal Reserve, NBC, Zillow, RIM, and Rhapsody sent people to share and learn best practice techniques for finding and recruiting world class technology talent. It was part conference, part training, and all awesome… Chuck Norris awesome. (more…)

Next week is SHRM13, the largest gathering of HR practitioners in the world. I’ve had a few people ask me why I would go when the content isn’t relevant to sourcing. It’s a question that makes sense to anyone who is familiar with the conference as only three session descriptions even mention the word sourcing. I asked some well-known HR bloggers and speakers to share their thoughts on the issue:

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Since Facebook graph search started rolling out earlier this year, it has been hotly debated. Some think it’s the next best thing for recruiting. Others are more skeptical. Today, we are skipping the debate, and getting down to the details to learn how Graph Search works. Johnny Campbell, of Social Talent, has prepared a video tutorial for the SourceCon community to help readers understand the possibilities of Graph Search.

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There are over 500 million Twitter accounts with over 200 million represent active users globally. I’d say that qualifies it as a solid source for finding and engaging talent for recruitment.

Of course, you can’t engage someone you haven’t found in the first place, and it’s been far too long since I’ve posted an update to how to search Twitter to find people - can you believe it’s been 4 years?!? (more…)