Noel Cocca

HR Tech "Awesome New Technologies in HR" 2012

Congratulations to this years winners named from 40 reviewed companies: Culture Amp — breaking the decades-old pattern for employee s urveys with Murmur, a SaaS application for surveys with instant… Read more

Corporate Mobile Readiness Infographic Report: iMomentous

Want to know what more about your corporate mobile readiness?  iMomentous put out this great infographic:   Thanks to Ed Newman, VP of Strategy, iMomentous for sharing this infographic.  Want… Read more

TalentBin: Deep Sourcing the Web – HRTech

There were some new impressive technologies to cover this year at HR Technology conference and a few of them really stood out. TalentBin was one of them winning the coveted… Read more

Technology Meets Recruiters At HR Tech Conference #HRTechConf

This weekend the technology and software worlds of Recruiting and HR come together in Chicago for HRTech Conference (#HRTechconf). There are tons of posts out there about what is a… Read more

Social Interviewing App from HireVue

Say goodbye to updating and uploading resumes, completing application forms, phone tag and bad blind interviews.

Jobs Feeds with @LinkedIn Jobs: Recruiters need to get on board

It’s big, It’s bad, It’s LinkedIn Jobs and it’s changing. This time for the better. Recruiters, if you do not already own groups, manage groups or have a direct line of sight to groups of your own or clients, you’ll want to look at this and reconsider your views.

Searching LinkedIn, Google, and Bing for Recruiters

Excellent video by Shane McCusker of Intelligence Recruitment Software originally posted on RecruitingBlogs.com. [vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/38352727l” width=”500″ height=”300″]

Jobaline: The Cure For The Common Job Board?

As a recruiter, utilizing a job board has one obvious advantage – it is the quickest way to publicize your jobs to a mass target audience and receive an inbox full of resumes. But posting on a job board is the “pay and pray” approach to sourcing talent – you receive a high volume of low qualified candidates. And paying for the service regardless of the results can be quite frustrating when you don’t find who you want.

4 Reasons Not to Incorporate Video in your Recruiting Process

Recruiting Video is widely debated. We take a look at why you should not use it to recruit. Every good recruiter has a packed tool kit full with useful tools for sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates – tools likeLinkedin, job boards, assessment tests, and an easy-to-use ATS.

RecruitingTools SHRM12 Video: Boost Rewards & Ty Abernethy

Another SHRM 2012 interview by TakeTheInterview.com’s VP Ty Abernathy (no he is not the guy in the suit!) found a cool tool to reward employees…we like it…do you?

RecruitingTools SHRM 12 Video: Loosemonkies.com & Ty Abernethy

At the recent SHRM12 in Atlanta, our roving reporter and TakeTheInterview.com VP Ty Abernathy found a new cool product that is ready to launch July 10th. He is talking to Yousuf Khatib, our Global Head of Marketing for Loosemonkies.com

Choosing No-Fuss Systems Of Search Engine Marketing

As more and more competitors and rivals enter into the world of online commerce, it becomes increasingly difficult to win the attention of prospective customers. If your business is to… Read more

Gmail Tool Rapportive Improves Social Recruiting

I am always trying out new apps to make my recruiting desk more efficient. The recent purchase of Rapportive by Linkedin made me finally try the app that I have been reading about and I am sure glad I did. I thought it sounded like Xobni and it is but for Gmail.

Techie Tidbits: [Tech Tools Review #2] ~ Rapportive

Rapportive is a free app (recently acquired by LinkedIn) that shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. Rapportive helps you build rapport quickly (hence the name) and is “relationship management built into your email.” It functions as a Gmail add on

Techie Tidbits [Tech Tools Review #1] ~ WiseStamp

WiseStamp is a handy dandy app that allows you to customize your email signature.

I use the free version in conjunction with Gmail and it works swimmingly well for both branding and presenting a professional signature from a web-based email account. WiseStamp is compatible with other web-based email systems like Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL and a few more (there’s a Thunderbird add-on).