This document provides tips for Talent Sourcers and Recruiters to increase their knowledge and tech skills. It recommends staying updated by following news sites like SourceCon, The Verge, and TechCrunch. It also suggests following people in tech and recruitment on social media, attending local meetups and tech events, learning programming through free online courses, getting a mentor within the company, and contacting the author with any other questions.

1. Ready, steady, learn!
Tips on increasing your knowledge and
tech skills as a Talent Sourcer/Recruiter
By Ela Moscicka
Lead Talent Sourcer (Engineering) at Microsoft
elmoscic@microsoft.com

2. STAY UPDATED WITH RECENT NEWS &
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
(ADD BELOW TO YOUR FAVOURITES/BOOKMARKS BAR)
„External” websites:
• SourceCon
• The Verge
• TechCrunch
• Hacker News
„Internal” websites:
• Channel9
• Open Source at Microsoft
• The Official MS Blog
• MS Story Labs
• Microsoft Stories
• Microsoft Life

3. Read and
write your
own stories
Medium
DEV Community

4. Follow people from tech&recruitment
on social media
• Satya Nadella
• Jen Gentleman
• John Papa
• Maira Wenzel
• Sherry List
• Kasia Tang
• Maja Gojtowska
• Immo Landwerth
• Ewelina Kurasz
• Adam Sitnik
• Wassim CHEGHAM

5. Attend meetups & tech events
You can start from meetups,
as they're local&free
1
Even if you don't understand
everything, use the
opportunity to network
2
Check
https://www.meetup.com/
website and pick those that
might be interesting for you
3

6. LEARN PROGRAMMING
• consider doing programming course💻 to get
better understanding of how programming
languages work
• you don't have to pay $$$ - websites like
Codecademy, freeCodeCamp or Udacity are
free&great for beginners

7. Get a Mentor
• Ask your Manager to help you find a
Mentor
• Have someone you would like to learn
from? Reach out to him/her directly and
ask for mentoring 

8. About mentoring...
you can have more than one Mentor at
the same time ;)
remember that it's all about building
relationship and trust, and this isn't
something that happens overnight.
Sometimes there's a "chemistry" right
from the beginning and you understand
each other perfectly, sometimes you
would need more time to start speaking
the same language (don't let that
discourage you)

9. Questions? Contact me:
E-mail: elmoscic@microsoft.com
Twitter: @ElaMoscicka
LinkedIn: Ela Moscicka