Below was my response to a recent FB post (https://www.facebook.com/groups/secret.sourcing/permalink/2001099366805748/ ) about what sourcing training vendor to use:

There are several vendors doing a good job, but none (even SocialTalent) will have a meaningful impact on your sourcing org after the initial wow factor of the trainings unless your company creates a community of practice (a core component of a true Sourcing CoE) that actually forces people to apply the new methods and tools against all their current search work by having designated SME leads within your company (usually motivated ICs who do the work every day, not managers) lead smaller group trainings as follow-ups to make sure each person gets it (otherwise some fall behind who missed something early on, others just are lazy and don't bother to change, etc.). That's how they will see for themselves which things work best in which situations, and they'll be motivated to keep using them to continue to enjoy the greater ROI, increased productivity, freeing up of time for better things, etc. Eventually you find new people emerge as SMEs who never would've hit your radar that start discovering new applications of the methods and tools (and create variations of their own - e.g., what Morgan Allen has done at NerdWallet) to your company's typical sourcing workload. When those start getting shared, and peers realize that anybody can come up with a game-changing idea, it has a positive snowball effect on the wider team.

Hello sourcers! Been lurking on this sub for some time :) I was curious to know if you have any input on this—now that SalesNavigator has been retired are you using any specific extension or tools to confirm and reverse-engineer emails and ultimately ensure that an email belongs to the person you’re after? I’ve heard Clearbit is okay for this, and HubSpot used to have similar capabilities in the past, but they’re not working too well for me. Any suggestions? TIA!

Two friends and I have been working with a few recruiters to build an automation assistant! The first thing it can do is web scraping!

If anyone is willing to trade feedback for a beta invite please comment or DM me :)

Hey everyone. Cox Enterprises is looking for a Sr. Sourcer for a 3-4 month project. Please feel free to message me or reach out directly at [email protected] if you are interested or know of someone that is.

Our team has recently developed SignalHire Add-On for Mozilla Firefox which can retrieve verified email addresses and phone numbers from any social network profile (it works on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, G+, GitHub and MeetUp). Feel free to test it out!

SignalHire is a great sourcing platform with a huge candidate database (around 250 million profiles). Each profile contains information about candidates' education, skills, previous and current work experience, contact details (real-time verified email addresses and phone numbers). Check out a free version of the platform with all main features!