Recruiter Talk

Every Friday in case you missed it, “The Week That Was” is your recruiting rundown. All you need to know about anything that matters is new in recruiting. We go… Read more

You can’t go to college to earn a Recruiting degree.  So how do you learn? Of course, you come here to RecruitingTools, RecruitingDaily, and RecruitingBlogs for the fundamentals. Additionally, you will… Read more

How do you describe “great” talent? I’d say you know talent when you hear it, but articulating why someone is great isn’t so simple. Whether you work at a staffing… Read more

When are you bringing Cheezhead back? I get this question regularly. For industry vets who are old enough to remember Cheezhead, you probably get it. For those who aren’t, Cheezhead was a… Read more

Facebook at Work, is an enterprise version of the social network that Facebook developed to build social networks for their employees. This is not surprising. There are some companies including… Read more

I know this may come as a shock, but finding top technical talent is a global issue. Recognizing this, Monster conducted a survey trying to gain insight into what obstacles… Read more

The increasing overlap, and potentially inextricable intertwining of recruitment and marketing has been a central theme in the HR industry, the subject of a prodigal amount of product marketing, ‘thought… Read more

Even with the proliferation of social networks, search engines and SaaS solutions available to recruiters today, referrals continue to represent the most effective source of hire for employers, proof that… Read more

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) were designed to track requisitions and candidates as a system of record, but when it comes to actually engaging with candidates, most of these systems fail… Read more

Twitter can’t be beat when it comes to business development.  Sure, it’s good for engagement, and great for sharing content.  That’s what it’s really designed for, after all.  But the… Read more

  Maren Hogan – Talent Community Expert, Social Media Maven, all around cool person. Our last webinar went over the limit over 1K attendees and nearly crashed our system!  Don’t… Read more

RecrutingTools has become a deep database of knowledge, tools and resources that may or may not be used by recruiters. We are in the information gathering business and so it’s important that we have at our

I took an example of life and how the sourcing of candidates is very similar to our life. In life, our choices are the keywords and we either choose to go ahead with them OR drop them. Right choices bring expected results and if we do not put them in right order – it all messes up.

Throughout the last year we’ve posted on many search tools, technigques and apps that can be utilized by recruiters. Not all of these tools are created for recruiters but all of them can be used by recruiters and sourcers to gather pertinent information during your search.

Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is what stands between Google and iMetaSearch. Now I won’t profess to be a expert in this area, but I will say that I have had