First impressions are important. Mine was smashing. Upon arriving I met up with @MarieJourney and Geoff Webb @Radicalrecruit. We met @JimStroud and his wife Carmen for breakfast. Maria is actively vlogging the event sourcecon You can follow her stream #scjourney which will hot link all her vlogs.

I’ll be photo journaling and blogging Check out the twitter stream #sourcecon to watch my stream. Follow my blog for living blogging during the event. You can follow the twubs.com stream This nifty stream will follow all the members who’ve chosen to have their streams monitored live. Be sure to check out live ustream feeds of the arbita sourcing lab. Watch seasoned pros like @Shally and Glenn Gutmacher facilitate the sourcing lab.

This morning was like a dream. Breakfast with my dear twitter friends whom I both respect, admire and appreciate. Followed by live vlogging with Maria about my blogtalkradio show Compassionate HR.

After breakfast I met the sourcing challenge contenders Irina S. @BrainGain Lisa, Mike, and Katherine. Mike has won two years in a row. Will one of the female sourcers steal his crown? Only time will tell.

I met Chandra CEO of EGrabber. As a sponsor of this event, he believes in corporate responsibility and giving back. In fact, he’s offering 1 year subscriptions free to all participants. He says, Since there’s no exhibitor booths, what he gets to sit down one of one, find out what people’s problems are and discovers how to help them.

I just gave Jim Stroud a hand massage, before he goes on stage. And now, he’s opening the event. As the MC he’s giving a presentation where he says, “he’s going to outsource praise.”

He’s talking about the searchologist. He answers the question, how many resumes are on the internet? He was looking for resumes that aren’t on job boards, or traditional sites. Snap shot in time: bing, google, yahoo were the focus of his search. He only used search strings that would only work on bing, google and yahoo.

The most resumes were on yahoo, google in bing in 2007, December of 2009, Google was 1, Yahoo, and Bing tied for second. Currently, Jim Stroud suggests google has emerged as #1. Then he went to blindsearch.fejus.com and found that consistently bing won (great for his friends at microsoft).

Stroud says, the round number of resumes is 3.2 million are currently on the internet.

Where are the other resumes? There are many more on the web. He looked at facebook, linkedin, plaxo, myspace, twitter to see how many had their job title on social networks. He complied all the data and put it on a chart. He was able pull it all together to identify where these technical professionals are. Hes made this data available at http://thesearchologist.com/zine

I need to go back to the conference and hear Sheila Greco, President of Sheila Greco Associates. I’ll report later about her presentation on telephone research.
Stay tuned…

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