by sofiabroberger | Aug 19, 2022 | Random Thoughts
Candidate motivation A little while back (actually, quite a while back) I recorded an episode of the podcast Talent Savvy together with Bas van de Hatred and the discussions we had sparked me into writing this blog post. The topic for the show was “Candidate...
by sofiabroberger | Feb 22, 2021 | Employer Branding, English, Sourcing & Recruitment
If I can avoid sourcing, I will. Ok ok, it’s a bit of a click baity title but hear me out. If I can get good enough people to apply on their own accord, then why would I go looking for them? Despite the title of this post, I love sourcing. But that doesn’t mean I...
by sofiabroberger | Jan 4, 2021 | Random Thoughts
I started thinking about this blog post as a counter to all the “2020 was so crap”. Don’t get me wrong, 2020 was pretty crap, but it wasn’t all bad. At least not for me. I’ve been lucky enough to work for a client, Toca Boca, that has not...
by sofiabroberger | Aug 14, 2020 | Employer Branding, English, Sourcing & Recruitment
Earlier this year I wrote series of blog posts about my first few weeks as the Recruitment Manager at Toca Boca. It started as an idea after I did a talk at TechRec in Berlin called “How to be a one person recruitment team”. As a little bit more than half a year has...
by sofiabroberger | May 18, 2020 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
Last week I was meant to be at SourceCon in Lisbon giving a talk titled “Escaping Linkedin” (the theme of the conference was “Escape Room”). The world had other plans. Then a couple of people gave me the idea of turning the talk into a blog...
by sofiabroberger | Jan 26, 2020 | English, Sourcing & Recruitment
This is the third and final part of a three part blog series about “How to be a one person recruitment team”. This particular post focuses on Optimization and how I will deal with this in the next few months in my role as Recruitment Manager at Toca Boca. Part One was...
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...
