Mental Health and Well-Being in the workplace is a vital topic for any profession. For those that are highly stressful, even more so. Sourcing can be highly rewarding. However, the nature of our daily activities in a Sourcer's work routine (frenetic pace, uncertainty, lack of control, constant changes) make us candidates to suffer high levels of anxiety from time to time. What are the best strategies to cope with this? What techniques work? What tools can help us to stay productive and stay sane at the same time? In this presentation, some contexts and practical examples will be discussed.

1. Mental Health &
Wellbeing
for Sourcers
Keynote presented by Iker Jusue
Prepared for SourceCon Digital 2.0
22nd September 2020 @ The Internet
about.me/IkerJusue
Twitter: @IkerJR

2. ABOUT ME
Hands-on and strategic freelance practitioner
with more than eight years of professional
experience, offering Talent Acquisition
services, mainly focused in Sourcing, Advising,
Training and Delivering, managing teams and
projects across the globe for corporates as
QuantumBlack (McKinsey), Oracle,
ThoughtWorks, BIC or Inditex, in addition to
start-ups, HR Tech vendors, recruitment
agencies and RPO providers.
In 2019, I obtained the title of SourceCon
Grandmaster (2nd European, 1st non-native
English speaker winning it). I also have won
the first Sourcing Summit Europe Hackathon in
2017.
Presented by Iker Jusue - about.me/IkerJusue - Twitter: @IkerJR

3. Why?

4. Source: https://hbr.org/2020/01/young-workers-need-companies-to-prioritize-mental-health

5. “a state of mind
characterized by emotional
well-being, good behavioral
adjustment, relative freedom
from anxiety and disabling
symptoms, and a capacity to
establish constructive
relationships and cope with
the ordinary demands and
stresses of life”
Source: APA Dictionary of Psychology.
https://dictionary.apa.org/mental-health

6. Anxiety
“An emotion characterized by apprehension and
somatic symptoms of tension in which an individual
anticipates impending danger, catastrophe, or
misfortune.”
Source: APA Dictionary of Psychology
https://dictionary.apa.org/anxiety

7. Stress
“(…) the degree to which you feel overwhelmed or
unable to cope as a result of pressures that are
unmanageable”.
Source: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/s/stress

8. Analysis Paralysis or Paralysis by
Analysis or…

9. Analysis Paralysis
“Analysis paralysis refers to a situation in which an
individual or group is unable to move forward with a
decision as a result of overanalyzing data or
overthinking a problem.”
Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/analysisparalysis.asp

11. Source: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/01/28/analysis-paralysis/

12. Source: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2019/01/28/analysis-paralysis/

13. Imposter phenomenon

14. Impostor syndrome or phenomenon
“The situation in which highly accomplished, successful
individuals paradoxically believe they are frauds who
ultimately will fail and be unmasked as incompetent
(…). Clinical symptoms often are associated with the
phenomenon as well, including generalized anxiety,
depression, and diminished self-esteem and self-
confidence”
Source: APA Dictionary of Psychology https://dictionary.apa.org/impostor-phenomenon

16. Source: https://www.ccl.org/blog/success-tips-overcome-impostor-syndrome/

17. Impostor syndrome
“You can’t expect other
people to value your work if
you don’t.”
Dr. Valerie Young
https://impostorsyndrome.com
TED talk (8 minutes):
https://youtu.be/h7v-GG3SEWQ

18. Right to disconnect

19. Right to disconnect
Sourcing can be unpleasantly perceived at times as an
unfinished, unaccomplished task. When to stop of
running a new search, sending a new message, testing
a new tool?
Use time management & automation to help you and
your team reducing stress.

20. Lack of control

21. Lack of control
What can trigger stress here?
Hiring Managers
Candidates
Alignment with the business

22. Flow state
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
TED talk (18 minutes):
https://youtu.be/fXIeFJCqsPs

23. What is the flow state?
“being completely
involved in an activity for
its own sake. The ego
falls away. Time flies.
Every action, movement,
and thought follows
inevitably from the
previous one, like playing
jazz. Your whole being is
involved, and you’re
using your skills to the
utmost”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for Wired Magazine
(1996)

24. The 8 Characteristics of Flow
Complete concentration on the task;
Clarity of goals and reward in mind and
immediate feedback;
Transformation of time (speeding up/slowing
down);

25. The 8 Characteristics of Flow
The experience is intrinsically rewarding.
Effortlessness and ease.
There is a balance between challenge and skills.
Actions and awareness are merged, losing self-conscious
rumination.
There is a feeling of control over the task.
Source: https://positivepsychology.com/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-father-of-flow/

26. Flow state
“Inducing flow is about the balance between the
level of skill and the size of the challenge at hand”
(Nakamura et al., 2009).

27. 

28. Extrinsic & Intrinsic
motivation
Book:
Drive: the Surprising Truth About What
Motivates Us (2009). Daniel H. Pink.

29. Intrinsic
motivation
Source:
https://www.tutor2u.net/business/re
ference/motivation-pink-three-
elements-of-intrinsic-motivation

30. Peer support and mentoring

31. SourceCon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sourcecon

32. Source: https://intenseminimalism.com/2020/the-impact-of-toxic-influencers-on-communities/
Shared by @SalamancaPeral

33. The power of One-to-Ones - 121s
Set regular time with your team to discuss how they
feel, aside sourcing metrics, achieved targets and
business matters.

34. Additional perks and company benefits
As part of your
C&B offering, or
using your team
budget, provide
subscriptions to
apps as
Headspace,
meditation
courses, Yoga,
counselling…

35. Having a Mental Health First Aider
in your team

36. https://www.teammood.com/en/

37. Make it part of your learning plan
Including content about Mental Health,
particularly Stress Management, can make a
difference on your team training and
onboarding.

38. Survey and additional info: https://www.mentalhealthinrecruitment.org/

39. Many thanks for
your time! Any
questions?
 Let’s connect and stay in
touch.
www.linkedin.com/in/IkerJusue
 If you are hiring for your team
and/or need an external
consultant, ping me to discuss!
Iker.Jusue@RoyanRecruitment.com
Presented by Iker Jusue - about.me/IkerJusue - Twitter: @IkerJR
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