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Sourcing - San Diego Style!

by TheSourceress on March 12, 2010

This Saturday I will be flying out to San Diego to attend SourceCon.
SourceCon began in Atlanta in 2007 and really marked the acceptance of Sourcing as a profession in it’s own right. If you have any interest in research for recruitment then it’s the place to be.
I will try to tweet from the conference - [...]

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The Week in Links (8th Jan 2010)

by TheSourceress on January 8, 2010

I started doing this round up of interesting links last week. I hope you find it interesting/useful. Do let me know if you discover a gem
Sourcing and Recruitment
Day 3 of Bill Boorman’s #HRCarnival
Bill Boorman, the founder of The Recruiting Unconference, is running his HR Video Blog Carnival to mark the end of 2009 [...]

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Tuesday Tweetup 5 - Southampton

by TheSourceress on November 18, 2009

If you follow any of my online activity, you will probably be aware that I am a regular Reading Tweetup goer. Inspired by my friend James Marshall and his UK Tweetup-Map project, I thought it would be fun to see how other tweetups around the UK are run and meet lots of fun twitter users [...]

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The First Reading Geek Night

by TheSourceress on November 4, 2009

Geek nights are already run in several towns and cities, the successful Oxford Geek Night for example.
Jim Anning, a friend of mine that I met through twitter and worked with on Reading Twestival, has been working hard in the last few weeks and months to put together a regular Geek Night event in Reading. Well, [...]

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Performing Sourcery at The Recruiting Unconference

by TheSourceress on October 26, 2009

I wrote about Unconferences a few months ago, after attending Tweetcamp. I started to wonder if the recruitment industry was ready for something like that. After all – the social web has enormous potential for aiding the recruiting process.
Up until now, events about online recruitment in the UK have still trudged you through eight [...]

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Twestival Local comes to Reading – See you there!

by TheSourceress on September 1, 2009

Reading Twestival takes place on 10th September at Mix Bar near the Riverside in Reading, Berkshire. Organised by Reading Twitter users, the event is held in association with Twestival and in support of the local Berkshire charity Daisy’s Dream.
I have been helping out, trying to drum up donations and ticket sales.

It’s going to be a [...]

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Tweetcamp – My first Unconference

by TheSourceress on June 29, 2009

So what is an unconference anyway?
This is how I understand it - An unconference tries to take away all the painful, bad things that you might associate with usual corporate conferences that your employer might pay for you to attend. There is no endless string of PowerPoint presentations given by speakers that should know what [...]

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