Recruiting Intelligence Meets Sourcing

On Friday I had the exquisite opportunity to lunch at Pei Wei with Moises (pronounced moy-SAYS) Lopez.  Turns out we both like to pen a word or two on blogs, both live here in the Dallas area, and both speak some Spanish and Portuguese.  Oh, and we both ordered (and loved!) the Mongolian Beef with Fried Rice.  How's that for a fabulous start?

But on closer examination, it also turns out we work in very similar arenas within recruiting.  Moises makes his magic by sourcing top talent at PDS Technical Services, which serves clients across the nation with long-term contracted staffing.  He makes it his business to know all the inner workings of the various industries in which he sources in order to procure the best talent as quickly as he can.  And to find talent before his company really needs it -- now, that's strategic. 

Meanwhile, we at Improved Experience are all about collecting and then translating candidate experience data into recruiting intelligence.  Stuff you can use to make intelligent, data-driven business cases.  Stuff you can take to the Board Room.  All so you can more competitively position your company in today's hiring-challenged world by improving the recruiting process, by crafting more targeted outreach programs, and by shoring up your employment brand initiatives. 

For both Moises at PDS Technical Services and we here at Improved Experience, the power of knowing -- or, recruiting intelligence -- drives everything.  For Moises, the power of knowing manifests itself in creatively finding great and often passive talent so recruiting professionals can open the dialogue and begin the all-important courting dance which ultimately culminates into a placement.  Improved Experience's power of knowing as third party researchers lies in serving our clients with real-time, benchmarked feedback from their talent pool.  Data-minable by demographics and job search motivations, the result is recruiting intelligence.

Moises and I both agree -- working on the strategic side of things is fun!  And helping to put those strategies into action is what allows us to be of value to our clients.  We were thrilled to discover that what began as a mutual interest in blogging also translated to a common business focus.  Together we realized that sourcing and recruiting intelligence have the same objective:  to empower a company with actionable data that drives its lifeblood initiative of finding and keeping great talent.  Who'd have thought we'd have so much in common -- outside of our obvious great taste in food?

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