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If you’ve seen me at a conference, this is going to be hard to imagine.  But when I was immersed in the world of Fortune 50 HR departments, the professional… Read more

The best recruiters complement their talent acquisition efforts with talent marketing and employer branding initiatives to keep their talent supply chain healthy.  Unfortunately, it takes a lot of work and time to create great talent marketing campaigns.  You know,… Read more

The future of recruitment is now. How did we get here? Let’s take a quick look at the evolution of how we communicate with candidates and clients.  First, it started with… Read more

You know those endorsements you can give people on LinkedIn? Those are the little skills that you can click on at the top of a page on the site? They of adding little value… Read more

Every day, talent practitioners and leaders are literally inundated with a seemingly Sisyphusian mountain of recruiting related content.   From thought leader views to industry news, staying on top of the stories and… Read more

Video has emerged as one of the hottest topics in recruitment marketing, as well as an increasingly ubiquitous feature of every company careers page and social recruiting platform.  That’s not even… Read more

When it comes to using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), most recruiting or HR professionals are strongly divided. Some believe an ATS fails to catch all suitable applicants, while others… Read more

Guest post by Stéphane Le Viet, CEO and Co-Founder of Work4. The move towards a mobile-dominated world has happened faster than anyone could have imagined.  By the end of 2015, there… Read more

So, a guy walks into a bar. Bartender says to him, “ You don’t look like you’re from around here.” Guy tells the bartender, “I’m actually from Denmark.” The bartender… Read more

It’s pretty easy to blame recruiters for the fact that the candidate experience is broken.  After all, we’re pretty easy (and obvious targets) for the many frustrations that come with… Read more

The direct connection between disengaged workers and a disengaged recruiting process, where applicants continue to get sucked into the “black hole” of communication and even candidates in process are often… Read more

At a recent Social Fresh Conference , there was a presentation given by Jay Baer that has caused quite a stir – Shotguns Trump Rifles: Why Social Success is now a Volume… Read more

We all spend a lot of time online dealing with nonsense from half-assed recruiters, at some point or another. Regardless of our years of experience, we will inevitably come across… Read more

As recruiters, we talk a lot about the candidate experience and its importance.  And I don’t disagree with that – so I want to state upfront that this post isn’t… Read more

From Taleo to Monster, from ADP to Doostang, companies who successfully create and own their own categories often shift their focus away from the model that helped them get to… Read more