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Shannon Myers

3rd SourceCon Challenge Winner 2008

Congratulations to Shannon Myers who is the official winner of the final sourcing challenge. She will be joining our previous winners Julia Stone and Joshua Kahn at the final table to compete against our 2007Grandmaster champion MichÆl Notaro at SourceCon2008. An unofficial congratulations to Jeremy Langhans who actually solved the challenge first by a few hours, but as Jeremy will tell you, he was playing along for the thrill of the chase (like good Sourcers do) as he is a speaker at SourceCon2008 and was ineligible to win any of the 2008 challenges.

If you are interested in knowing how Shannon solved challenge 3 and beat out Nita Villarreal Mentza who came in a very close second, click here for her synopsis.

A little bit about Shannon...

Shannon is the Managing Partner of Walton Search, recruitment and sourcing firm that specializes in the Healthcare Industry. Shannon began her career in acombination of photography and higher education, earning a Bachelor ofFine Arts degree and working as both a photographer and in Student Affairs at fine arts colleges. She made the transition to recruiting in 2001 as a Project Coordinator/Researcher sourcing candidates for commercial construction positions eventually making her way to a full cycle recruiting in healthcare. She is originally from upstate New York and currently resides with her husband in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

A little about Nita

Nita has been working in recruiting for about 20 minutes! She decided to crawl out of her immersion in motherhood on February 1st, 2008. Imagining it would be difficult to find a job that was virtual, part-time, and fun, she answered a MomCorps.com posting for a research position. She held not one of the desired skills, but wrangled an interview. Now she's a part-time-virtual researcher for Boston Search Group and she's having huge fun.

Nita has done a few things in her working life. She famously left college in the 80's to bartend up and down the east coast. Then she famously left college again in the 90's to go beauty school. She owned a hair salon for 10 years before getting hijacked from Vermont to Connecticut for love. Luckily, it worked out. She was in direct sales for Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield but left to finish school. She finally graduated Magna Cum Laude from Albertus Magnus College in May of 2004 - 7 months pregnant.

She enjoys downhill skiing, biking with her kid and dog in tow, making jewelry, and building Lincoln Loghouses. She has a motorcycle license and a cosmetology license. She is happily married to Brian and is the mother of Rio - a four year old girl, and Jack - an eleven year old terrier.

She found the Sourcecon challenge while surfing the net for ways to improve her skills. She jumped into the fray of the much more experienced sourcers because ignorance is bliss. She is thrilled to pieces with finishing and can't wait for the next contest!

If you would also like to see how Nita, who is someone that is very new to the sourcing world went through the process of solving challenge 3, then click here for her synopsis

The Source - August 2008

This is the LAST ISSUE of The Source before SourceCon 2008! Make sure to get your ticket today!

Having connections, while very important, is usually not a sufficient condition on its own to accomplish a business objective. Those connections need to be used properly, cultivated, grown, and constantly nurtured. Much like a garden, a connection that is left alone with no care will soon wither away and die. Our network connections are no different - when we give of ourselves to our connections, even though we may not reap any personal benefits immediately, in the long run there is almost certain to be a return of good karma. Who we know in our line of work is important to our success - both professionally and personally.

As researchers, arguably our most valuable tools are the networks to which we belong. Our networks not only provide us with a source of knowledge, camaraderie, and community, but they also serve as communities from which we can source and place individuals into new and exciting positions. In the August issue of The Source, we have several articles which detail the importance, and the benefits, of who we know in our networks.

In this issue:

• How A Little Guanxi Makes Talent Communities Better
• Feeling Green
• The Power of Networking For Yourself
• Where Do I Start?

In addition:

• Ask the Sourcing Dude
• This month€™s Spotlight

Please provide us with your feedback!

So are you having a little trouble with the final challenge?

5 Degrees of me but 1 Degree of Santa!

Some say sourcing predates modern times and that most peoplecan be found on the internet, but I think that those people are full ofit.

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