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As the market for talent continues to get more competitive, companies are increasingly turning to Talent Sourcers to find and recruit the best people. But remember, candidates simply don’t apply… Read more

Twenty years ago, I worked in the staffing industry. Thirteen years ago, I worked in recruitment. Seven years ago, my career took a turn into Talent Acquisition, also known as… Read more

It’s hard for hiring professionals to be frank and honest with candidates. I recently got a note from someone on LinkedIn about my RecruitingDaily post on companies that bring in… Read more

Sometimes, you come across a survey that gives some insight into human behavior that is surprising, confounding, or simply head-scratching. So it is with the latest CareerBuilder survey. It found,… Read more

The idea of social recruiting — the concept whereby hiring managers, HR types, and others look at your social media profiles as a way to (a) find you; or. (b)… Read more

Last summer, RecruitingDaily contributor Alan Henshaw asked a great question: Why don’t organizations develop more  creative ways for rewarding employees who make candidate referrals? It’s a great question, because in… Read more

We all know that diversity in the workplace is extremely important. People with different cultural backgrounds, age groups, gender, opinions, and experience make the team stronger and more efficient. We… Read more

Believe it or not, LinkedIn is still one of the best professional networking sites that you can find on the Internet. Yes it has some flaws, but it’s the place… Read more

Sometimes, I find some really interesting stuff on LinkedIn’s Premium Career Group, and sometimes, it may even be the punchline to a recruiting joke. Here’s a recent (and amusing) example… Read more

Recently I’ve heard more and more of my fellow Talent Acquisition experts refer to something called “Talent on Demand.” At first, it sounded like another buzzword to me, or some… Read more

I’ve written before about HR metrics and People Analytics (that’s a form of HR analytics), but for now I want to spend one second — well, one paragraph — on… Read more

If you own a website in the recruitment and jobs marketplace industry, there are a variety of ways to leverage your page traffic into revenue. From site ads to sponsorships,… Read more

Madgex Benchmarking Report Tell me if this conversation sounds familiar: “Our job board is not flexible. Our brand is not being represented and our target job seekers are not being… Read more

As harsh as it may sound, resumes are nothing more than words on paper. They all look more or less the same. Some candidates try to stand out by using… Read more

Before we get started, here are a couple of quick definitions up front about passive and active candidates: Passive Candidates — They’re not necessarily ready yet to change jobs yet, but… Read more