Recruiting Tools

This product sucks. Really. Yes, I found a product that drives me crazy and wasted my time. It’s Connect6. I get teased a lot because I always seem to like… Read more

In this series, we will focus on sharpening your skills so that you can become a better technical recruiter. It was going to be a 4 part. but we are… Read more

The recruiting world can be ugly. Too many recruiters are just looking to make a quick buck instead of really trying to make good hires. Having been in the recruiting… Read more

Recruiters are hunters of information. Contact information, profile pages and resumes are our reward and tools that help us find them are obviously our favorites. The challenge, of course, is that… Read more

In this series, we will focus on sharpening your skills so that you can become a better technical recruiter. You’ll learn tactics and strategies to apply before, during and post search… Read more

Wasting time trying to source chrome extensions or sourcing tools? You’re not alone. It’s not uncommon to hear sourcers practically interrogating each other on their chrome extensions. These digital hacks are their… Read more

There are literally millions of extensions in the Chrome store for everything from blogging to sourcing tools but knowing which one is trash or a treasure isn’t as simple as… Read more

Look, let’s get one thing straight about social recruiting. Social recruiting is one approach, not a strategy in itself. It’s a tool. Think of it like the paper-clip and toothpick approach to… Read more

In this series, we will focus on sharpening your skills so that you can become a better technical recruiter. You’ll learn tactics and strategies to apply before, during and post search… Read more

There are people in this world who do not use LinkedIn. This is not an April Fools joke. I have clients that do not know of or ever heard of… Read more

Do you know what Slack and cool have in common? Everything. I know I’m not the first person to discover slack, but I am definitely a huge fan. We started using the… Read more

Last night a colleague went to Boston University to do a focus group on how undergraduate computer science majors perceive various aspects of a company’s employer brand. The results were… Read more

This article is part of a 4-part series,  focused on sharpening your technical recruiting skills. You’ll learn tactics and strategies to apply before, during and post search to improve your results. … Read more

Do you know who reads the documents you send? Like to you really know? Sure there are many tools that will send you a read receipt to let you know… Read more

Way back when Skills and Endorsements were introduced (yes, they were announced in late September 2012), I did it myself. I wrote about the Facebook-ization of LinkedIn. Endorsements were frivolous…. Read more