Is Good Old Sourcing Dead?

Miles Jennings from Talentbar says:

1. Linkedin, Facebook, mySpace, JigSaw, Zoominfo are making people easier to find.

2. That changes the recruiter's function from sourcing to selling candidates on jobs and assessing them for the client

3. To perform these tasks well, a recruiter has to understand the business she is working in better than ever before.

4. The key to differentiating yourself is now an intense knowledge of a specific industry so that you can be a valuable resource to your clients. "It's time to know as much about their business as they do."

Animal Comment: This sounds better in theory than practice. In some business sectors, you will find a lot of people online. In others, very few

Moises Lopez sees the sourcer's role as changing as well. To that of a master networker. Not because names are so readily available but because companies are blocking internet sourcers from site flipping and x-raying.

Comments

[Mike the Reference guy]

I hope that Sourcing isn't dead.. For those that are interested in combining "the latest technology" and gold old fashioned sourcing.. check out the Passive Candidate Compiler that SkillSurvey puts out..

In a nutshell.. the product quickly compiles a database of professional sourcing candidates from your potential new hire's list of references.. it's all done online and yields high results...

So.. I hope it never dies ;)