Productivity Hacks - Cut through the clutter. You are all over the web using tool after tool. When sourcing, it can be challenging to remember where you started. Control the chaos. This lab highlights which tools you should use and how to integrate them to stay more organized and productive. Don’t increase your efforts, DIRECT your efforts for increased results.
Sourcing Lab breakout track is where experts share secrets, best practices and their favorite tools. This is where you will learn new techniques.
6. Predictive Analytics-Rule of 40*
* Results from 1990-1999 in third party consulting
& 2000-2012 in corporate recruiting
40%
40%
40%
40%
40%
1 hire
40%
0.2
%
~ 500 Prospects
* Results from 1990-
1999 in third party
consulting
& 2000-2012 in
corporate recruiting
40%
8. Offer/HR related
Coordinating Interviews
Getting Feedback
Submitting Candidates
Scheduling phone calls
Inbound Response
Name Gen
Candidate Intake calls
Initial Outreach
Time spent in a day (hours)
1.57
1.27
Average day:
11+ hours
2.04
1.61
1.15
1.09
0.87
0.87
0.7
9. We have a fixed amount of time
(24 hours / day).
Question:
Are we maximizing our time?
17. Facebook
Twitter
Meetup
Q&A sites
Association sites
Google (non X-ray)
Conferences
GitHub
Resume DBs
Applicants
ATS
LinkedIn
Current usage of candidate sources
26.34%
18.56%
17.36%
11.05%
6.67%
3.83%
3.71%
3.61%
3.54%
2.26%
2.17%
0.91%
18. Why this won’t work for JPL
(and other competitive roles)?
• Referrals - top candidate
source
• Volume issue - can’t only
source a couple of channels
21. Identify and Prioritize Sourcing Channels
Employee
referrals
Network
referrals
Applicant
Tracking
System
Job boards
(postings)
Resume
databases
Google
resume
search
Similar
organizations/
companies
Schools
Professional
associations
Conferences Events
Technical
social sites
22. Sourcing Channels Checklist
1. Hiring Mgrs
2. Employees
3. Interns
1. Old candidates
2. Social circle
3. Prof network
iCIMS
1. LinkedIn
2. ClearanceJobs
3. Monster
4. Dice
1. LinkedIn
2. ClearanceJobs
3. Monster
4. Dice
Google
(inurl:resume OR
intitle:resume OR
inurl:cv OR
intitle:cv) “robot…
1. Raytheon
2. SpaceX
3. Northrup
Grumman
4. APL
1. CMU
2. M.I.T.
3. UT, Austin
4. Stanford
1. IEEE
2. AIAA
3. ASME
1. ICRA
2. AUVSI
3. Int’l Space
Conference
1. Hackathons
2. Tech Talks
3. Private events
4. Open house
1. GitHub
2. Stack Overflow
3. Quora
4. LI groups
5. Meetup.com
23.
24.
25.
26. See a sample plan in the
appendix to get you started.
Read at your own leisure later
27. 1. Make a list of all sourcing
channels (for this role)
2. Know how frequently you
want to source each channel
3. Put them on your
calendar!!!
Executing Your Plan
28. Spend less time
on unproductive tasks
Optimize SourcingSpace
to minimize wasted time
B.
36. Semi-Automate your Follow up
• Time scheduling tools
• Timetrade (Free & paid versions $49/yr)
• ScheduleOnce (Starts at $5/mo, personalized booking page)
• Send out pre-call questions
• It takes less time to follow up with existing
prospects than to generate new ones
• Use your Sent box to streamline follow up
• LinkedIn Recruiter Projects
• Mail Merge
37. SOURCE: Yesware Analysis of 500k
sales emails 11/19/14
• 91% of the time, an email is opened within ONE day after
you sent it.
• If you haven’t heard back by then, reach out again.
It Pays to Follow Up
38. 30 responses
Another 15 responses
Another 10 responses
SOURCE: Yesware Analysis of 500k
sales emails 11/19/14
39. What Does It Take to Get 1 Hire?
1 hire
= your time
40. What Does It Take to Get 1 Hire?
1 hire
= your time
41. Takeaways
• Plan your work and work your plan
• Diversify your sources
• Maximize time with tools &
automation
• Follow up to convert more
42. Every day is a new chance
to create success.
You don’t have to
keep doing what’s
not working.
44. Thanks for attending.
Want to talk more about
sourcing productivity?
You can find us -
Mei Lu
Twitter
@g33kology
Teresa Colquitt
Twitter
@SourcingBeast
46. 1. Identify sourcing channels
2. Decide frequency (daily/weekly/monthly):
• Channel Sourcing
• Follow up
• Jobcasting (posting jobs + social media)
3. Create outreach & social media templates
4. Block time on calendar
5. Create base Boolean strings
Initial 10-step setup
47. 6. Competitive analysis
7. Candidate Value Proposition
8. Collect initial search results + Set up alerts
9. Configure your SourcingSpace
10. Event planning
Initial 10-step setup
48. • ATS (checking applicants) and
respond
• Check new alerts and respond
• Resume databases
• Google alerts
Daily plan
49. • Follow ups
• Updating search strings
• ATS (sourcing w/ updated strings)
• Resume databases (sourcing w/
updated strings)
• Similar profile discovery
• Social media broadcasting
• Event logistics
Weekly plan
50. • Similar organizations / companies
• Schools
• Professional associations
• Conferences
• Events
• Technical Social sites (Github,
StackOverflow, Meetup.com, etc.)
• Update competitive analysis if needed
Monthly plan
Editor's Notes
Teresa:
If what you are doing isn’t working….this presentation is for you
You have learned and will learn a ton of new tips, tricks, and tools here, what we hope to do is help provide some structure for you to implement new habits and be more productive. This session will focus on setting yourself up for success.
Baseline
Travel arrangements for remote candidate
Benefits, relocation etc.
Scheduling and coordinating everyone’s calendar
In the survey we conducted, we found that LinkedIn by far was the #1 used source. Is anyone surprised by this? As of Dec 2014, There’s 347 million users on Linkedin, some of which check linkedin, some who don’t. By comparison, Instagram has 300 mill monthly users, Twitter has 288 million monthly users, and FB has 1.35 billion users. Linkedin gets 26% of our time, while facebook only gets less than 1%. Are there good candidates on Linkedin? Of course, nobody can deny that. Does that mean that it should be the only source we use? Maybe, but it is impossible to ignore where the rest of our candidates are spending their time.
Mei – talking about JPL
Teresa: for ex: This is true for most competitive reqs. Here in seattle, we have this challenge with Software Engineers. Good and bad developers, whether they have comprehensive Linkedin profiles or bare bones profeils, they are still getting anywhere from 5-10+ inmails per week, at least.
Github - site:github.com "joined on" "public activity" -tab.activity ("robotics" AND ("matlab" OR "labview" OR "ansys" OR "comsol"))
CMU Robotics Institute alumni - http://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri_alumni.html?menu_id=258&grad_year=00&program_type=2
CMU Robotics Institute alumni by year - http://www.ri.cmu.edu/education/alumni_by_year.html
site:cmu.edu ("robotics" AND ("alum" OR "alumni" OR "alumnus" OR "alumnae"))
Stanford Robotics Lab - http://cs.stanford.edu/group/manips/people.html
Quora – mechanical engineering robotics
Teresa:
The first step is to identify and diversify your sourcing portfolio. In order to best maximize your time, the next step is to get your SourcingSpace optimized. Just like you consider your desk your workspace, when we refer to your sourcingspace, we are talking about your browsers, bookmarks, shortcuts and saved searches. It is critical to get these optimized and setup so that you are not wasting time trying to find “that website” you went to or “that saved search” you ran.
Connectifier
Grease monkey - Customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript.
Tree style tab
Recruiting search product and sourcing tool
Compare this to Yesware stats
What is this telling us?
That we are giving up on prospects after 2 outreaches. As it takes on average 2 emails to get ahold of somone, and another 2 emails to schedule a time to talk. Think about the time you spend to send emails to your 500 prospects, and the additional emails and phone calls required to get those prospects on the phone…how much time could you get back if you semi-automated that process?
Scheduling: even after they get back to us, it still takes more coordtination to get them on the phone.
Every time an appointment is scheduled using scheduleonce, I can set an appointment reminder to be automatically sent to both myself and the candidate. In this automated email, I include precall questions. This can help streamline the process, especially when the question of relocation is included. If a candidate responds and says they aren’t interested in relocation, I can then find another recruiter that might have a role open in their desired location.