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  • Recruitment Trends 2023: Insights from 25 Industry Experts & Thought Leaders (Jan. 2023) is an easy-read summary (free download) of recruiting and sourcing trend predictions for 2023 compiled by MatcHR from 25 sourcing/recruiting leaders (including thoughts from me on pp. 13-15)

  • Glenn was listed among the top Talent Sourcing Thought Leaders to Follow in 2023 here on Wizard Sourcer but frankly, this 2020 interview by Wizard Sourcer (Jonathan Kidder) was probably my best encapsulation of my past thinking of sourcing.

  • Related to above bullet, this interview by Celential.ai (Dec. 2022) was good, too.

  • Glenn co-presented a two-part webinar series with sourcing automation and webscraping expert Bret Feig in late 2022 hosted by Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ERE): get free access to the recording for part 2 here

  • "Free LinkedIn Enrichment Process With Only A List of Names" (Dec. 2022) was a featured blog post in HRTX/RecruitingDaily.com's 12 Days of Sourcing annual series (free access at RecruitingDaily Insider)

  • Competitive intelligence and talent mapping at Sourcing Summit (October 2020) and on Day 3 of Talent Acquisition Week (January 2021)

  • "The Sourcer's Daily Dozen: free methods and tools for finding passive talent" presented at Global TA Day (September 2020) - slides available here

  • Introductory JavaScript for Sourcers at Sourcing Summit Global (July 2020) and an earlier version focused on bookmarklets at the SOSU Europe conference in Amsterdam (October 2018)

  • Find Candidates for Free: 10 Free Sourcing Methods to Supercharge Recruiters' Pipelines summarizes highlights from a Bullhorn (popular recruiting agency software) national conference: "first presented by Glenn Gutmacher at one of the most popular Engage sessions of all time"

  • Glenn conceived and implemented the Programmers track for SourceCon, debuting in Austin (September 2017)

  • Boston Area Talent Sourcing Association (BATSA): Glenn co-presented with (subsequent) SourceCon Grandmaster, Randy Bailey at BATSA (Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge MA, Nov. 2014)

  • LinkedIn Talent Connect
    featured panelist, pipelining methods (San Francisco CA, Oct. 2014)

  • SourceCon: How-to bookmarklets session (Denver CO, Oct. 2014)

  • Association of Employment Professionals: How-to bookmarklets session (Lowell MA, Oct. 2014)

  • Glenn delivered a live-recorded demonstration of Outwit Hub, the advanced web scraping tool, as An Outwit Hub Video Tutorial with @GlennGutmacher, with companion how-to files, which was the year's most-viewed video on the industry portal SourceCon (Dec. 12, 2013)

  • Glenn delivered a live-recorded demonstration of bookmarklets, the flexible Javascript-based browser productivity tool, as Glenn Gutmacher on #SourceCon Live – Bookmarklets as a Free Sourcing and Recruiting Productivity Tool, appearing on the industry portal SourceCon (Nov. 21, 2013). His public set of bookmarklets continues to get raves !

  • Glenn wrote the article Computerization's Effect on Sourcing and the Future of Employment, appearing on the industry portal SourceCon (Oct. 7, 2013)

  • Glenn presented the session "Turbocharge Your Front-End Talent Sourcing Efforts for (Nearly) Free" at the SourceCon conference, hosted on the Microsoft world headquarters campus in Redmond, WA (Oct. 2, 2013) and a similar session at Recruiting Trends' annual conference in Las Vegas, NV (Oct. 22, 2013).

  • Glenn wrote the article "How to Use Social Media for Recruiting", appearing on pp. 24-25 of the Employment Marketplace newsletter, vol. 2, issue 20, Feb. 2010 (PDF, 2MB - so be patient while it loads)

  • Glenn developed and presented the webinar Introductory Twitter for Recruiters: How to Minimize Your Time & Maximize ROI in Jan. 2010, which was the world's best-attended webinar on this topic up to that time.

  • Glenn wrote the article: "The Internet's Influence on Staffing: How to Use Social Media for Recruiting" for the Fall 2009 issue of HR West magazine, published by the Northern California Human Resources Association as part of a feature issue themed on social media's impact on HR.

  • Over 2,000 people pre-registered for Glenn's Sourcer's Daily Dozen: Top Methods for Sourcing Passive Candidates webinar for ERE in June 2008.

  • Glenn was profiled by recruiting research guru, Krista Bradford in her Nov. 2007 post King of String: Glenn Gutmacher

  • Glenn is mentioned as one "of the most visible e-recruiting gurus" in the industry in "Use Online Networks to Find Your Star Employee" by David Teten and Scott Allen, also published in the March 2006 issue of Zoom Information newsletter and May 2006 online edition of Fast Company magazine.

  • For Bill Vick's book, LinkedIn for Recruiting (Happy About, 2006), Glenn was interviewed at length, as were a select group of leading recruiters/sourcers

  • Presented Microsoft case study on How to Recruit Top Talent Online at the Beyond Blogs and Social Networks summit (12/2/05). Also see 12/2/05 items on The Virtual Handshake blog and 11/14/05 press release on PR Newswire

  • Glenn was quoted/referenced a few times regarding social networking in the book The Virtual Handshake--Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online" (AMACOM, 2005). For more, visit the authors' website.

  • Over 330 people pre-registered for "Secrets of a Leading-Edge Online Sourcing Expert – Top Ten Lists That Provide a Roadmap to the Passive Candidate", Glenn's popular webcast for portal HR.com in Oct. 2005

  • "Online networks gain speed among HR departments" featured an interview with Glenn about how relationship capital management portals are used in recruitment sourcing in the Dec. 10-16, 2004 issue of Boston Business Journal (it is hosted here because BBJ archives only a minority of their print edition articles on their website).

  • Glenn wrote a chapter about Internet recruiting (linked here as a Word doc) for the Stepping Up to Diversity recruiting manual (published June 2003) by the legendary Frank McCarthy of DiverseWorkplace.

  • Glenn was quoted extensively in the Nov. 12, 2002 news release regarding the launch of BioJobNet.com, the first site in NHC Group's biotech niche job board network.

  • BostonWorks Recruiter News is the monthly e-newsletter that I compiled and wrote for the Boston Globe's career portal from Nov. 2001 through Mar. 2002.

  • "Finding Star Recruiters", a 1,000-word column describing how to find technical recruiters and sourcers, was published in the Apr. 2001 issue of Purple Squirrel magazine and updated for HR.com in Sept. 2003 as Where to Find Recruiters (requires free login).

  • "Top 10 Internet Recruiting Tips for 2001" was published in Dec. 2000 on the HR portal HRIMMall and January 2001 on the portal CareerMag.

  • Three articles for Mass High Tech's Recruitment special sections: The most recent ("Back to grass-roots recruiting efforts") was published in the May 7, 2001 issue, and was updated and published on HR.com in August 2003 (requires free login) with the same title. The first ("How to use the Web to find employees - fast") appeared in the June 12, 2000 issue and the second ("Casting the net: E-mail newsletters bring leads") in the Aug. 21, 2000 issue. An edited version of the first piece was published in MHT's sister publication, Dallas-Fort Worth TechBiz, as "Advanced Internet searches can produce a goldmine of candidates" in the Nov. 13 issue. (Note: Both publications' editing staff inserted some typos in the Boolean search strings in Glenn's first article that led to errors. Click here for Glenn's original version, and note the corrected portions in the boxes. These searches do work!)

  • "Secrets of Online Recruiters Exposed", a 2,000-word piece on Internet recruiting techniques solicited by the publisher of Workforce magazine for their October 2000 issue and "Diverse Workforce Requires Balanced HR Leadership", a feature from 12/1/98. Glenn was also quoted extensively in "Fight Dirty Hiring Tactics", a feature article by Eileen Zimmerman in the May 2001, pp. 30-34.

  • Monthly columns for Electronic Recruiters Exchange from summer-fall 2000. Here are links to each.

  • Article describing the "Top 10 Online Recruiting Techniques" was published in June 2000 on a non-exclusive basis on HR-Today.com, HRFree.com, and in Aug. 2000 on HRIM Mall. The article also appeared edited as "10 Proven Online Recruiting Techniques" in the July-Aug. 2000 issue of the HR Professional newsletter, published by Human Resource Executive magazine. It also appeared in an edited form in the Nov. 2000 issue of Purple Squirrel magazine.

  • A Boston Business Journal article from the Oct. 17, 1997 print edition about Internet recruiting, "Hunting with the Net", quotes Glenn on p.1 and p.2.
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  • The CXR Foundation reviewed 12 decades of research across hundreds of milestones from the early 1900s to today to compile the 'The history of recruiting', including many first-person accounts from influential people in the field to explain how recruiting (and sourcing) has come to be. First published in April 2023, it's a fascinating read to understand how things have evolved and where trends are likely to take us. Glenn is referenced in the 1990s section.

  • Glenn served as a panelist for the popular ERE-hosted webinar on alternative ways for talent acquisition professionals to find new roles presented in March 2023.

  • Glenn was the coordinator of the Catch the Career Express event for south shore Massachusetts job-seekers, held in conjunction with JVS Career Moves on Feb. 15, 2012. See promotional flyer (PDF) or registration page.

  • Glenn was interviewed for and quoted multiple times in the article about using LinkedIn for job-hunting Playing the Links, appearing in the November 14, 2011 edition of the New York Post.

  • Glenn's seminar on How to Build Your Personal Brand online, has been presented (with updates) several times between 2009-2012 for the Rhode Island School of Design's Continuing Education program's (RISD CE) Professional Development / Business of Design track.

  • Glenn's popular webinar for job-seekers, Beyond Job Boards: Use No-Cost Social Networking and Web 2.0 Search to Uncover Full-Time Careers and Freelance Work, was extremely well booked throughout 2009, presented to members of various professional associations and universities.

  • Glenn's How to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Personal Brand & Tap the Hidden Job Market webinar, sponsored by major outplacement firm Lee Hecht Harrison, kicked off the Harvard Business School global alumni association's Fall 2009 Career Management Webinar series, with over 750 Harvard alums pre-registered.

  • expanded version of Glenn's article appearing in the June 2009 edition of David Perry's book, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters (gm4jh.com) on free methods to make resumes findable, social networking, web 2.0 tools and personal branding methods for job-seekers (PDF document; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view).

  • The Prentice Hall IT Career Guide, 2nd Edition by Fran Quittel (Pearson Education, 2006) quotes Glenn at length about using social networks for job-hunting purposes.

  • The Mass High Tech (4/25/05 issue) article "Networked server: Always more for job hunters to learn in evolving IT marketplace" quoted several of Glenn's comments that he made as a panelist at an IT careers event in Boston earlier that month.

  • "Virtual Networking", a feature article in the best-selling directory, CareerXRoads 2003 (MMC Group) is linked here as a Word document; it also appeared in an edited form on the career site of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). It was praised by a noted careers columnist as the best article of the dozen written by employment experts in that edition of CareerXRoads.

  • "Getting Results with Your Online Resume" is the article Glenn wrote for the 2002 edition of CareerXRoads, linked here as a Word document.

  • "Jobs abound on the web" feature article of the Career section the July 2, 2001 issue of Boston Metro newspaper.

  • "Online services play major role in today's job search process" appeared in the Jan. 12, 1997 JobSmart section of all Community Newspaper Company newspapers (1.2 million circulation).

  • Frequent seminar presentations to job-seekers of Advanced Online Job Hunting Techniques at: BostonWorks Career Fairs on 4/9/02, 5/13/02, 5/14/02 and 6/4/02; Digital Eve, Nixon Peabody Law Offices, Boston, MA, 11/13/01; Layoff Lounge, Doubletree Hotel, Waltham, MA, 10/30/01.

    (Glenn has other media credits, too: Articles not about job-hunting or recruiting are here; articles featuring Glenn as an interviewee and his speaking engagements are here.)

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