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Articles by Maureen Sharib

Maureen Sharib is a telephone names sourcer, names sourcing since 1997. She and her husband Bob own the names-sourcing firm TechTrak.com, Inc. (www.techtrak.com) which helps companies fill their hard-to-place positions at a fraction of the cost of traditional recruiting venues. Maureen is the 2007-2008 Guild Guide for the newly formed Sourcers Guild, a professional organization for sourcers. She is also the author of the only of its kind and very popular “Magic In the Method” telephone names sourcing training course and a continuous contributor to many online recruiting-related sites. Maureen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Cincinnati and lives in Morrow, Ohio, on a 12-acre paradise with her husband Bob, dog Buster, and three barn cats. She is most grateful to be able to do what she does.

What Sourcing Is and What It Isn’t

by Maureen Sharib February 26th, 2008

Sourcing is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the field of recruiting. The “boards” are always trying to sell their “sourcing systems” by appealing to the “You will never have to source again if you use our system”. Because many recruiters secretly don’t want to source, they readily buy into the too-good-to-be-true, no-sourcing-required philosophy.  It’s an [...]

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