by sofiabroberger | Jan 19, 2020 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
This is the second part of a three part blog series about “How to be a one person recruitment team”. This particular post focuses on Automation and how I have set things up at Toca Boca. Part One was about Collaboration. Automation My favourite...
by sofiabroberger | Jan 12, 2020 | Employer Branding, English, Sourcing & Recruitment
I joined Toca Boca back in December and I couldn’t be happier! It truly is a very creative place to work where you get to acknowledge your inner child. Just the fact that I if I ever wanted to ride around the office on a pedal go-kart, I can, makes me smile 🙂...
by sofiabroberger | Nov 14, 2019 | English, Random Thoughts
A little while back I had a phone call from Paula Olinder. We have never actually met but are connected on Linkedin. She wanted to know if I knew of a good source for salary statistics in Sweden that was developer-specific. I didn’t. We have SCB, Statistiska...
by sofiabroberger | Sep 9, 2019 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
Last week I spoke at ROC day in Wroclaw, Poland. When my friend Kasia first invited me I asked her what she would like me to talk about and she thought that a talk on messaging, how to get replies, similar to what I have talks on before would be a good topic. As...
by sofiabroberger | Aug 11, 2019 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
It’s been a while since SourceCon in Amsterdam, but I’ve been reflecting on all the sessions for a while (and it takes me ages to write a blog post…). Despite the actual topic of the conference being Storytelling, that wasn’t my key take away....
by sofiabroberger | Jun 30, 2019 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
It’s been a slow spring for me. Quite a few weeks have past without a single hire. Not for lack of trying. The sourcing gods know I’ve tried. (If anyone has any hint of how to get a hold of a great Android developer in Stockholm, let me know!). But as...
by sofiabroberger | May 25, 2019 | Random Thoughts
I attended SourceCon, again. This was my third time, and I’m sure it won’t be my last. However, this time was a bit extra special to me for various reasons. Firstly, it was my first time attedning SourceCon as a speaker. I had the honor of speaking about...
by sofiabroberger | May 9, 2019 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
The big collaborative list of Github search operators As I was writing my latest post, Behavioural sourcing on Github, I tried finding a list of some with ALL Github search operators. The closest I could come was a sheet that the lovely Susanna had created. It was...
by sofiabroberger | Apr 28, 2019 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
If you would like to learn how to source on Github as per this post, and other ways, I’d suggest you sign up to Advanced Sourcing Training Live in Barcelona on the 26th of March. Use the discount code GITHUBSOURCING for a 30% discount. Behavioural sourcing Those...
by sofiabroberger | Feb 10, 2019 | Candidate Outreach, English, Sourcing & Recruitment
,Quality or quantity? Some people say recruitment is a numbers game. If you just get in touch with enough people you will eventually make a placement. Most recruiters, at some point in their career, will have been told about the 10% rule. In order to hire 1 person,...
