Noel Cocca
CEO/Founder RecruitingDaily and avid skier, coach and avid father of two trying to keep up with my altruistic wife. Producing at the sweet spot talent acquisition to create great content for the living breathing human beings in recruiting and hiring. I try to ease the biggest to smallest problems from start-ups to enterprise. Founder of RecruitingDaily and our merry band of rabble-rousers.
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Recruiters need to get soft (skills)
Do recruiters under value soft skills? Real live relationships? Has social networking and virtual relationships replaced the real, bare knuckle recruiter? Maybe, but without a doubt to be successful recruiters will need to leverage a blend of both virtual and in person, real live soft skills. Converting prospects is a hard task, especially in an economy like today.
Twitter: Strike 1 @replies go Bye Bye
The way we communicate has changed over the last few years. There’s been a dramatic shift in culture and one tool that has had the greatest effect on real time media is making waves. The premise behind social conversation is that we are enabled to find and connect with others…
Seesmic Desktop or TweetDeck?
Managing your online communities becomes more challenging everyday. From a recruiters perspective centralizing your online presence for response management is crucial to daily production. I’m a big fan of Tweetdeck, but Seesmic provides some real evidence of group and list management not too mention the ease of customization. Check it out.
Yammer your way to Success
As if we don’t already have enough to distract us from our day jobs. Micro Blogging has really taken over the social media space this past year with Twitter growing at some 1300% with personal users. But how can corporations, especially global operations communicate in an effortless, meaningful way sharing workspaces, files and real time Twitter like updates?
Can computational knowledge impact recruiting?
Internet search enthusiasts are craving new opportunities to delve deeper into the world of search. I recently spoke with Gary Clarke of Wolfram Alpha to learn about the new Alpha search engine that claims to have changed search forever. Take a read on True Semantic/Natural Language search.
Twellow: Search – Seize – Hire
So, Twitter has hit the mainstream, recruiters have certainly picked up on it and it’s been a solid source of prospects for me both from a sales and sourcing perspective. I’m an avid user of Tweetdeck but I need more. How can I search specific targets and demographics and be sure that my return will be meaningful?
My Top 3 Semantic Search Engines
There are thousands of ways to search for information online. But how can you be sure you are getting the best return on your search? Does your engines simply crawl or spider? I received this question that I thought was great and wanted to share my thoughts on Semantic Search and my Top 3 search engines.
Is recruiting a purely electronic transaction?
Let’s be real here for a second. Automation and technology have surely changed the game, but do you seriously think it’s taken the human touch out of the process? I’d respect your thoughts, but laugh at you simultaneously. In this age of social media, social networking and automation, the process might be swifter…
Marilyn Hoffman: Ready for Work!
Marilyn is what I call a hustler! She is witty, intelligent and motivating all wrapped into one great and available package! Marilyn Hoffman is a senior level OD and learning professional with an key focus on process and program development. I had the chance to speak with Marilyn regarding her career transition….
Vince Fumo – Twitter & Facebook
Twitter and Facebook are very powerful tools in today’s society. Forget about updating your friends and your status 15 times a day; it’s graduated past the real time media updates. Former Philadelphia Senator Vince Fumo is on trial and one anxious juror may have just set him free…
Twitter + Your Passion = Your Brand
Twitter is a phenomenal tool for many reasons. Regardless of your passion leveraging Twitter can prove to be extremely successful. If however you have no grip on reality and really have no backbone to who you are, you can be lost. Your Passion = Your Brand, dives into the idea of…
Is your PR Pro worth the dough? a RT Post
From the posting by David Mullen: Unlike many professions, most members of the general public have no idea what public relations is or what PR pros do. You know what I mean. You’ve been met with the “I’m going to nod my head like I know what that is but my face will give away that I’m clueless” look before.
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Violin on the DC Metro? Joshua Bell
Inspiration is a key element to success and my family is the most crucial inspiration in my life. With the world moving at such an incredible pace it is sometimes hard to slow down and before long, you realize that you have just passed on an opportunity of a lifetime…
My Top 5 Twits
Twitter has no doubt overtaken the social media community by storm. Over the next few weeks I will be posting about my top twitter add on and apps that I use to leverage my networks. In the interim, I wanted to give a huge mention to Dave Mendoza and my new Top 5 Twits….
Social Media in Philadelphia
The world of recruitment is changing. So much of our job is about process, strategy and now more than ever technology. Leveraging the powers of web 2.0 and the platforms that have been built into what we term social media is not just crucial but has become expected in the abilities of recruiters. DVTRN…
