#trusource at the TRU Recruiting Unconference

[Irina Shamaeva]

I just came back from #trulondon, a 3 day event in London, organized by Bill Boorman and Geoff Webb.

The first day was #trusource, where Katharine Robinson and I taught sourcing to one-half of a 40+ group of people from the UK and many other countries, while Jim Stroud, Geoff Webb, and Marie Journey were teaching the other half of the group. (We switched at lunch.) It was a very pleasant experience. While we didn't have a formal agenda, we squeezed lots of knowledge into this day. The audience was attentive, asked lots of good questions, and seemed well educated on searching the web and on social media techniques. 

The next two days was the 150+ attendees "un-conference" with friendly, informal atmosphere, free sharing of ideas by many recruiting experts within the sessions and in-between them. You can get a flavor of the event by looking at the #trulondon hashtag on twitter. 

Watch for next #tru events at http://thetruconferences.com/; I highly recommend them. I hope to participate in some in the future.

Here's a write up on #trusource by Wendy Jacob.

Here's another write-up by Alan Whitford: http://www.rceuro.com/index.php/RCEuro-Blogs/TruSource-begins-the-3...

Photo above: Marie Journey, Jim Stroud, me, Katharine Robinson, and Maha Akiki.

[TheSourceress]

Irina,

It was wonderful to team up with you and teach the rest of us Brits a thing or two about how to source. It was hard to believe it was the first time we had met - it was so easy to coach together.

I look forward to seeing you again at #SourceCon next month.

Katharine

[Irina Shamaeva]

Katharine,

Thanks for the nice comment. I enjoyed our teaching day quite a bit too.
See you soon,
Irina

TheSourceress said:

Irina,

It was wonderful to team up with you and teach the rest of us Brits a thing or two about how to source. It was hard to believe it was the first time we had met - it was so easy to coach together.

I look forward to seeing you again at #SourceCon next month.

Katharine