ensorceler bar phone sourcing glossary
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Ensorceler Bar Phone Sourcing Glossary introduced at Fall 2013 Sourcecon @ Microsoft Headquarters, Seattle, WATRANSCRIPT
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Phone sourcing is an elegant return to flawless basics.
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800 NUMBERS
• 800 numbers are “call un-blocked” if
you’re using a Call Block service.
• Dial *67 to block your call.
• Dial *82 to unblock your call.
• Some numbers today are returning a fast
“busy” signal to call-blocked numbers.
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Acquihiring
• (a portmanteau of "acquisition" and
"hiring") is the process of hiring by
acquisition
• "Every engineer on staff adds $1
million in valuation to a company,” the
saying goes in the tech community.
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Acquisourcing
Identifying companies that might be
acquired sometimes just for their
employees and the sourcing and
engagement of their owners for the
beginning of the acquisition process.
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ASK• Actively inquiring after information;
usually on the telephone.
• “I asked the Receptionist Gatekeeper
to tell me who all the Food
Technologists were in the R&D group
and she did!”
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Blocked Calls
Resource used by phone sourcers to
mask where they’re calling from;
prevents lots of nosey call-backs!
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Bomber Command
• A quick-witted phone sourcing group
should be a vital part of your
recruiting team's fleet-footed Bomber
Command Sourcing Unit.
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Build Out
The function of moving (and gathering)
horizontally or vertically through a
specific person’s group within a
specific organization.
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Burrow
The act of digging; relentlessly, deeply.
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Carat Level
• Overall effectiveness level of
sourcing results with unchecked
Internet results being the lowest and
just-off-the-phone-I-got-me-a-hot-
one! being the highest.
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Channeling
• A state of consciousness that elicits a flow of
communication between two people.
• Sources may include angels, discarnate former
humans, extraterrestrials, and other levels of
consciousness. They may also include
telephone directories, receptionists and
anybody else flesh-and-blood you get on the
telephone.
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Charm
The power to effect work without
employing brute force (Ellis); a way of
getting the answer “yes” without
asking a clear question (Camus).
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Cocoon• The environ many employees are
surrounded by inside companies;
enveloped, protected, hidden,
invisible
• “These people are deeply cocooned
within the organization.”
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Company (Employee) Attitude:
Many times discernable through
listening to multiple employee Voice
Mails.
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Phone Sourcing
FAST
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CompetitorEntities involved in, or based on,
competition with each other
striving for the same object,
position, technology, employee,
etc.
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DecipherPiecing together pieces of information; in
phone sourcing fifteen Voice Mails in one
company all directing the listener to the
same Administrative Assistant is a good
indicator of a group that “hangs together”
(works together) inside that company.
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Deep And Actionable Data
• Phone sourcing provides "deep and actionable
data” when you can hang up the phone and
dial another number and be assured you’ll be
reaching live a qualified potential hire.
• Hat Tip to Glen Cathey for the term “deep and
actionable data”!
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Disparate ImpactEmployment (and sourcing!) practices
may be considered discriminatory and
illegal if they have a disproportionate
"adverse impact" on members of a
minority group.
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Phone Sourcing Tip
• In some phone systems, hitting 0
("zeroing out") will take you to an
administrative assistant for a
department - occasionally to another
deparment member.
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Elicitation
Knowing what to say, when, to get
what.
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Phone Sourcing Tip
Collecting direct dials (or extensions)
of persons you meet/learn about along
the way on the inside of a company
will help you create a bird’s eye view/a
valuable dossier sometimes on a
company’s organizational structure.
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Emotional Intelligence
The ability to default to grace under
the onslaught of an ugly Gatekeeper.
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ensorcel; ensorceler (Middle French)
• To enchant, bewitch
• Sourcers are challenged today to become
ensorcelers; work to develop the ability to
engage not only Gatekeepers but also
candidates on a level that captures their
attention to your message.
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Fear
That thing that clutches at your throat,
makes your hand sweaty, your gut sick
every time you think about making a
phone call to gather information.
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Gatekeeper
That woman (or man) you imagine to
be the 400 lb guerilla on the other end
of the phone every time you make a
call to find out who somebody is/is
not/might want to do/not do/be/not be
something.
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Grunt• The individual contributors inside
companies who elude detection and
capture mostly because they’re too busy
doing what they’re doing to “list”
themselves on the Internet in any capacity
that reveals to the world exactly who, what
and where they are.
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Phone Sourcing is the quiet prowling about.
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“How Many Names?”
A good question the answer to which
divides, really, phone sourcers from
Internet sourcers. In general, a phone-
sourced job requires less names than
an Internet-sourced job.
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Inveigle
• To win over by coaxing, flattery, or
artful talk.
• Idioms: lead astray
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Lift-out• When an entire team of employees is
recruited from a competitor at once:
• "Good news: We engineered a complete
lift-out of ACME Corporation's
programmers."
• Can be dangerous and cause for legal
action.
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MagicA subtle mixing of science and art that
harnesses statistics, human nature,
psychology and technology to produce
effective practices in phone-
sourcing.
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MySpace
Remember it?
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Who’s Next?
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• “You can never plan the future by the
past.” ~Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797 Irish
orator
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MysteriousThat state of being that causes the
radar of many Gatekeepers to rise.
The more mysterious your call
“sounds” the more questions she’s
likely to ask of you.
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Organizational Chart
A graphic presentation of the
relationships and interrelationships
within an organization that identifies
the lines of authority and responsibility
- changes consistently and often in
many organizations.
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Phone Sourcing Tip
Stating your name to the Receptionist
Gatekeeper calmly and matter-of-factly
when she answers will go a good ways
towards increasing your chances of her
giving you information.
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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving what is left
of the old.”
~Winston Churchill
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Outrageous Sourcing
That which Phone Sourcing is
considered to be by many (in its truest
and most threatening definition.)
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Palaver
• Idle chatter/talk intended to charm or
beguile. To flatter or cajole.
• Idioms: run off at the mouth, shoot
the breeze, bull
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Passing The Buck
The habit some employees have of passing
responsibility to their managers and/or
subordinates. Is most easily discernable listening
to employee Voice Mail greetings; as in, “Hi. This
is Rob, Manufacturing Engineer. I’m on vacation
until November 15. If you need help with
automation issues contact my Manager, Jose
Perez at extension 487.”
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Phone Directory
Usually contains a listing of every employee
inside a specific company location. Many times a
company’s phone directory will lead you into
individual Voice Mails offering these as an
alternative to speaking to a Receptionist
Gatekeeper or after-hours to assist callers; a
virtual treasure trove of information if perused
carefully.
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phoneme(fo-neem)
The smallest sound unit in a language that
is capable of conveying a distinct
meaning, such as the s of sing and the r of
ring.
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Phone Sourcing
In recruiting and sourcing, the leveraging of
techniques (primarily the phone) to identify
candidates with limited to no presence in any easily
accessible public forum (the Internet, published list,
etc.) It requires the uncovering of candidate
information via a primary means of calling directly
into organizations to uncover data on people, their
role, title and responsibilities.
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Scary, huh?
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Poaching
The practice of contacting and offering
another company’s employees another
opportunity.
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Poaching
In general, if you’re not acting
purposely and maliciously to destroy a
competitor, you are free to source into
a competitor for good employees.
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Pocket HuntingPursuing and capturing an entire group
(pocket) within an organization.
Generally speaking, if you can find one
in a group online there are several
more in that group you can’t find
online!
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Didn’t think about that, did you?
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Pride DiseaseWhen your recruiter (or yourself)
doesn’t want to ask the “dumb
questions.”
Force the issue!
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Rainmaker
• The person in an organization who
makes it happen.
• Is it you?
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RemunerationPayment for services. In phone
sourcing today per-hour rates seem to
remain in the broad $35-$125/hr.
range and the per-name rate seems to
fall in the somewhat tighter $35 -$75
per name range.
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Resistance
A force that tends to oppose or retard
motion. In phone sourcing resistance is met
more on the inside of our own expectations
than it is on the outside of reality.
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Ruse
• a deceptive maneuver (especially to
avoid capture.)
• Also spelled “rouse” and “rouge” as
in, “I’m so ashamed by my lying that
my cheeks turned rouge.”
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Ruse: Controversial
Rusing may be a right-of-passage in so much that
phone sourcers who began their careers “rusing” -
lying to get information – were so uncomfortable
doing so that they’re challenged to increase their
communication skills to the point where it’s no
longer necessary to ruse. This is a common
experience for many seasoned phone sourcers.
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"While I don't have a need for any phone sourcing right now, it's how I learned to recruit so I understand the results you get.”
~Note on LinkedIn invitation
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Savio
A potential candidate who understands
(is savvy) about the relationship he
holds with the Internet.
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SecurityAny high fence around a company’s
information. Most companies don’t
address the issue, ignoring the cracks in
their doors through which the curious
public may peer. Knowing these armor
fissures allows a phone sourcer entry and
access.
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Silent KeyboardAllows for the silent transcription of
information as it is heard from a
Gatekeeper’s lips to a phone sourcer’s
ear as to not alarm Gatekeeper that
her loose lips sinking her ship are
being recorded.
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Singing• Accomplished with the lips open;
singing is the act of disclosing
information. In it’s most cantabile
form it is smooth and flowing and has
a musical quality.
• Known also as “Spilling” in the
industry.
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“A person with a new idea is a crank
until the idea succeeds.”
~Mark Twain
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Skell
The art of being a detective.
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SongbirdAny person whose vocal organ is developed
in such a way as to produce various sound
notes that translate into names or
information that leads to other names or
more information. The cant normally sounds
like music to a phone sourcer’s ears and
usually requires prompting to elicit.
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Phone sourcing uncovers 100% of the 90% missing in social media.
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Spilling
The act of someone (or something) “giving
up” or “offering up” information about
others or facts inside an organization.
Sometimes accomplished with the
knowledge of the one doing the spilling (for
reasons known only to them.) Usually
follows prompting.
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Stabbing In• The practice of calling into a company’s direct-dial system
in an ordered fashion, after learning the internal prefixes.
Requires discerning internal prefix first; sometimes as easy
as asking the receptionist for someone’s direct dial; usually
requires investigation on the Internet to uncover. Very
effective and for an experienced phone sourcer rarely takes
beyond three calls to obtain helpful information from
someone on the inside.
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Stinkin’ Thinkin’
The self-immolation we offer ourselves up
to before attempting a task. Some of us
possess more of it than others. A few are
blessed with its absence. Usually precedes
or is accompanied by pain and suffering
and always leads to failure. Requires
professional help.
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Strike
Acting on your senses; as in when you
sniff a whiff of information you circle in
fast and when it starts to leak its life
blood, strike hard and take all you can
get.
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Watch where you’re cuttin’!
“You don't get no closer to the bone than
phone sourcing.”
~ Remark heard in a recent phone sourcing chat on the MagicMethod
network
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TargetThe organization you’re going into to source
talent. Some organizations are sourced
repeatedly in certain fields – they’re usually
the market leaders in their business
segment. They know it and many of them,
in turn, source talent repeatedly from their
competitors.
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Phone Sourcing TipWhat a Gatekeeper doesn’t say may
be just as important as what she does
say.
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“We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new
paths.”
~Walt Disney
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Phone Sourcing Tip
"Phone sourcing seems to be an
overwhelming task/you helped simplify it
breaking it down into small manageable
tasks.” ~ Newbie Phone Sourcer learning the ropes
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Telesourcing• The act of getting on the telephone
and asking for information - very
simple; very effective; very difficult to
overcome fear of.
• A must-have mastery for most people
who desire sourcing success.
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Tenacity• doggedness: persistent
determination
• “He’s a real bull-dog phone-sourcer.”
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Time
The only thing in the world you can
never get more of.
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Time“The more things change the more
things stay the same.” ~ Alphonse Karr 1808 – 1890 French
novelist
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Time“You can never plan the future by the
past.”~Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797 Irish orator
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Phone sourcing isn’t for everyone.
It might not be for you.
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One thing’s for sure, though…
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Title StrikeTitles vary depending on the size of the company,
but in general, the bigger the company, the lower
your title-strike might be, and the smaller the
company, the higher the title-strike might be. In
other words, a Manager level in a $3 billion sale
company could be at the same experience level as
a Director in a $900 million sale company or a VP in
a $100 million sale company.
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Trampolining• Also referred to as going “from pillar
to post”
• A phone-sourcing technique of going
(bouncing) from one person to another
inside a company acquiring different
pieces of information along the way.
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Voice Mail• A treasure chest of information
• Many times (especially around
holidays/vacation times) Voice Mails
contain exquisitely detailed
information about the person and/or
the person’s group.
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Weeding
That act in sourcing where you choose the wheat
from the chaff. Requires discernment and iron
decision-making ability and willingness to ask the
hard questions.
“Does she work on the front end or the back end of
the product? Which member does what?”
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Wheedle
• Influence or urge by gentle urging,
caressing, repeated appeals, teasing
or flattering
• "He wheedled her into going along."
• wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney,
coax, sweet-talk, inveigle
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When the going gets tough,are you tough enough?
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YappingThat tendency a phone sourcer has to say
too much when asking for information.
Yapping sends up red flags and intimates
that the yapper is nervous about something
and makes the person being yapped at
cautious. Also known as “babbling”, “acting
like an idiot” or “talking too much.”
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