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Its a few days late but here it is, my account of the experience I took away from #Recruifest09. It was certainly unique and fast pace, but overall the connections made were those that will resonate with me for a long time.

#recruitfest09 made a big splash and will certainly stay fresh in my mind for a long time. Forget about the people, the big names and the contacts made…The information gained was just downright awesome. Check it out here.

2009 brought thousands of recruiting posts worldwide covering topics form recruitment, social media, predictions and more. Here is a listing of what I consider to be the top 28 recruiting posts of 2009.

What would $10,000 mean to you? Now take that thought and multiple that by at least 2.5 million. What do you get? The answer is the number of those affected by Multiple Sclerosis. The $10,000 is what we can win for the charity just by voting for this video. Click to vote!

  I’m not 100% sure how I feel right now. From a football perspective, the man (I use this term lightly) is incredible. As a human he’s a piece of… Read more

In a matter of weeks one of the most power packed, non-traditional hopefully to become a tradition in recruiting conferences will be taking place. If you haven’t heard RecruitFest is back, and it’s better than the original. Check out why and who I am going to meet on my journey to recruitfest…

We expect, rather, we demand communication from our candidates. If they don’t follow up with us on the status of their interview, if they don’t send a thank-you note, if they don’t communicate in the exact way we think they should, we blast them, or worse, remove them from consideration for our positions. Is that legit?

“Not to oversimplify a highly valuable skill, but one of the basic keys to the recruiting process is knowing traits you are looking for in a candidate.” So says Michael Vandervort, Labor Relations Specialist. But what about Recruiter Fouls? Read his take here.

“You know it works when you start getting calls from people you don’t know who want to work with you,” We’re talking about blogs and technology and how you can make them work for. Stephanie Lloyd National Careers + Workplace Columnists explains it here.

“You know it works when you start getting calls from people you don’t know who want to work with you,” We’re talking about blogs and technology and how you can make them work for. Stephanie Lloyd National Careers + Workplace Columnists explains it here.

12 Steps to findability on the big 3 – LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Geoff Peterson of General Lead talks about how you can maximize your presence in the world of social media…

“it’s time you stopped asking for proof that recruiting using Twitter works, and actually listen when people share proof with you. I recently used a fantastic resource called HARO (Help A Reporter Out)…

I totally get it and how cool is this… Jessica Lee rips it raw with a sometime accurate account of interviewing candidates. The question becomes what do you do? How do you handle certain situations? It’s a fun and quick read, but in reality it’s true…

Some people call sourcing an art simply because they are not able to break down their own sourcing process into a series of repeatable steps, including the analytical thought processes applied. The goal is not to remove thought from the process – in fact…read it all here:

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