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Of course, this was in 2005, and the explosion of publicly available personal information that’s so ubiquitous today was, at the time, still in its infancy. Back in the Day: The Original Social Sourcing. The employer value proposition : give up a cushy corporate gig and go into project consulting.
My initial exposure to sourcing came in 2005 in the form of “mall walking” as a Regional Recruiter for Hot Topic. I would literally walk into the competitor’s shop to recruit employees! Take that, Evernote! We did a lot of creative problem solving, including hosting “open calls” at the local EDD office.
I was given a paper with names and phone numbers and told to call and screen them. I was asked if I was interested in moving to Atlanta, GA to turn around an underperforming market, and I accepted the role as I didn’t see any career path past the VP of recruiting role I had.
In other words, the statistics suggest that there’s a big disconnect between how recruiting technology is used and how it’s supposed to be used. Consider: Only 21% of companies have access to socialrecruiting technology , compared to 74% of internet users with at least one active social media account.
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