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If you clicked through to read this post, you must have had a little niggling doubt in your mind that the answer to the title of this blog, in the… Read more

As a recruiter and HR professional your inbox is your communication tool and can sometimes work its way into the hundreds of received emails daily. The proper mix of Email… Read more

Recently, I’ve been asked for career advice by a number of recent college graduates, as well as more experienced members of the emerging workforce still in the early stages of… Read more

Back in January 2013, Facebook launched one of the most awesome sourcing/recruiting tools of our time, better known as Graph Search. This was pretty much just basically a search engine… Read more

You don’t have to be an expert to agree with the fact that an engaged workforce is directly correlated with creating a powerful competitive advantage. That’s why it’s so important… Read more

In your quest for better search engine optimization, you will undoubtedly encounter the problem of keywords. As a recruiter looking to implement an on online attraction strategy, keywords are vital… Read more

Ready. Set. Go. Sourcing requires skill. It requires the skill to uncover leads that have not already been uncovered by your competitor. Having the proper arsenal of sourcing tools at… Read more

Somewhere between Labor Day and Halloween, the official “holiday” season kicks off, an annual annoyance that essentially means that we dedicate approximately a full quarter of each year to those “magical… Read more

In the very, very beginning, RecruitingBlogs (fondly known as RBC), was a way station for a group of recruiters focused on the latest techniques and technology. If you were to… Read more

I’m lucky enough to get to work with some of the most brilliant people in our little weird incestuous industry that is HR and recruiting, one of whom would argue… Read more

Let’s cut to the chase and get real. Every week there are new sourcing tools being introduced into the market, most of which fail. It’s difficult to know all of the… Read more

It’s only been fairly recently that human resources has even become codified as a profession. The Industrial Revolution and the subsequent manufacturing age at the dawn of the 2oth century… Read more

Recruiting and HR is basically a perpetual balancing act. We’re asked to juggle being equal parts psychologist, peacekeeper, business partner, and now, we’re supposed to be marketers, too. Crazy, I know. That’s… Read more

Last summer I found myself up against a deadline. Per our new Vice President of Human Resources, I had 3 days to pull together a diversity budget for our 30,000… Read more

No matter how awesome my day happens to be, as soon as I open my personal e-mail, it’s pretty much guaranteed that it’s all downhill from there. Seriously, nothing pisses… Read more