SOME OF THE TOPICS

The latest clever ways to find talent from one of the best tool tinkerers in the business. This session is part hacking, part a call to lateral thinking and a plea to foster critical thinking and develop curiosity. This session will increase your understanding the fundamentals of the internet and databases, and how to get  the best out of them from a sourcing perspective.

Are we missing the human touch in sourcing?  Tech driven automation, tools, endless KPIs and a focus on numbers is driving the human out of sourcing. Sourcing is morphing into a numbers game.   How can we reconnect with what is essentially the reason why sourcing exists in the first place – our humaneness. This session will explore how we can embrace our humanity in all its foibles and triumphs, and become better humans and ultimately better sourcers.

Finding people is becoming easier, convincing them to act or pay attention is challenging, which is why seduction matters.  Learn how you can bring the art and science of seduction to sourcing. Effective persuasion is the next big challenge for sourcers.

The sourcing profession and the recruitment industry are based on asking the right questions in order to achieve the most targeted results.

Based on case studies from Fortune500 companies, this interactive session will include questions from interviews for roles with remuneration greater than one million US dollars.

What are the million-dollar questions, when to ask them and who could answer them? Which questions do you ask in order to assess the strategic mind, the ability to execute and the management skills of an individual you are considering for an opportunity? How can you tell if a candidate is a good fit for your company’s DNA?

In this session we will discuss questioning techniques, tools and methodologies relevant for everyone in the sourcing community in order to improve both the engagement with prospects and candidates, and the consulting services to clients and managers.

You must be mad if you’re not using MAD!

MAD refers to Marketing, Advertising & Digital tactics that you can apply to your sourcing pipelines. Did you ever think about how you can connect with people who previously interacted with you or your website? What about the potential candidates that looked on your career site but didn’t apply?

Learn how to strategically position your job ads in front of these audiences as they browse (Google OR Facebook OR Linkedin) thus helping you increase your employer brand awareness and remind your potential candidates to apply to your positions.

It’s what everyone faces – a wall. A state where your processes and expertise seemingly comes to a standstill. What’s next? In this session Miri will explore what sourcers can do when they hit the proverbial wall. This session will explore the practical steps to get out of a slump or roadblock when sourcing. Difficulties are going to come, it’s how you deal with them that separates the great sourcers.

Phantombuster, Lemlist, Amazing Hiring and a range of tools (both paid and free) exist for super sourcers. This session is a comprehensive look at the must-have tools for a super sourcer’s toolbox. Marcel will explore Meetups, GitHub, Stack Overflow and other sources. You will learn how to scrape, to enrich your data, cross reference the data, create a funnel and set-up a campaign.

Sourcers often work on over 15 projects at any one time… and, you’ve guessed it, they’re all urgent. So how can they increase their productivity to get everything done AND deliver a great candidate experience? We’ll set you on a path to productivity, starting with changing your mentality so you can overcome distractions. We will also cover tips and tricks to help you focus on deep work, as well as tools and gadgets for productivity.

What lurks in the deep and dark web for sourcers? A huge treasure trove exists in the dark web. Explore what and how you can find interesting information on the web that’s applicable to sourcing.

Body language can say a lot about a person’s behaviour and likely actions. This session will explore the role of body language in human interaction and why it matters to sourcing professionals. It’s a fascinating look at how people’s behavior, both offline and online, can be interpreted accurately and help in forming decisions.

Smartly thinks every stakeholder in the company’s success should have a role in finding talent. This is not a run of the mill referral campaign. Smartly engaged the engineering team to develop tools for automation, provided intel and source leads. It’s the ultimate collaboration any sourcing team dream of.

If you are into finding tech talent you cannot ignore the importance of Github. This session is a no-holds-barred take on how to find the best talent using Github. It is a workshop style session with hands-on demo of how you can break, tinker and extract the best out of Github.

In their recruiter & sourcer handshake talk, Netta & Nathalie will share their intel journey with its highlights and lowlights.

You will walk away from this talk with a new perspective about the value and differences of sourcers and recruiters. You will learn what makes a sourcer-recruiter team a success and how working together can maximize the value they bring along as talent experts.

As professional HR people we’re pretty good at our jobs. We’re on the forefront of sourcing, have great ideas on bringing new candidates and are basically magicians. The problem is that in many organizations, our partners, the managers, aren’t on the same page, and don’t really “get” what we’re doing. However, sourcers can’t work alone, and we’re all painfully aware of the very important role managers play within the sourcing and recruitment process.

I will take you with me in a search and show you some methodologies and tools, which you can implement yourself the next day.

Recruitment and sourcing does not always go according to plan. Sometimes business and life itself hands you lemons, it’s the job of the sourcer to turn them into lemonade. This session is a practical case study of one of the most innovative companies in Israel – Lemonade and how they transform difficult sourcing projects into sweet success.

‘The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the next best time is now’ so goes the Chinese proverb. A modern sourcing infrastructure cannot be built overnight. This session will look at how to pre-plan, invest and build a sourcing capability that will deliver results in due course. It’s getting your hands dirty on tools, techniques and strategy to build a robust sourcing infrastructure. It’s putting an argument that sourcing success is a result of meticulous planning and foresight.

Sometimes when marketing is infused into sourcing it becomes richer. In this case study Patrick will demonstrate how he helped his clients build a multi-dimensional recruitment marketing strategy that contributes to overall sourcing success.

LinkedIn is one of the most popular sourcing channels available in the market, yet most recruiters do not fully utilise the advanced search capabilities and power of its reach. In this session, learn how you can master the advanced tools of LinkedIn and maximise ROI. Keep on top of developments, trends and hacks on one of the most important sites for sourcers. This session is for power users and those who want to stay ahead of the pack.

How many qualified candidates you have per position? When do you stop your sourcing, after 20 or 40? Each position takes us, in average, over a month ( and sometimes much longer… ) to recruit. Sourcing is a major part of it. Reducing the time to hire is of the outmost high importance. If we can find a way to reduce the sourcing time, we will reduce the total recruiting time drastically. If we will constantly analyze the existing data, we can create the right formula for the blended sourcing to yield the best results.

Sourcing for a single open position is hard, sourcing for multiple roles is a lot harder. Sourcing for volume roles consistently is very hard. This session looks at how you can effectively run volume and mass sourcing projects consistently. This is a sourcing project at its most sophisticated. It’s knowing how to identify what works and scaling it, year in and year out. This session will highlight the challenges, failures and success of embarking on mass recruitment.

Have you been curious about web scraping? It’s easier than you think – there’s a learning curve but no need to be too technical. Scraping is both fun and a productivity booster. We’ll run through the use and comparison of Email Extractors, Web robots, Outwit Hub and Docs, Phantombuster, Data Miner, browserless scrapers and a few more.

Diversity sourcing is in everyone’s lip. But is this just another buzzword and feel-good corporate malarkey? This session will break myths and highlight the follies of what amounts to diversity sourcing today. It calls bullshit on what’s wrong and offers a new way forward.