Recruiter Talk

Take full advantage of your LinkedIn network. Organize, Tag and recruit via company, industry, location title and more. It’s simple and easy to execute. You are missing great talent you are already connected with. Take control of your Network.

Twitter this, Twitter that. Recruiters are starting to seem desperate on how to measure and use Twitter for recruiting. Let’s keep this simple and skip the theory. It’s about tactics and understanding how to use the tools to connect and then take that connection offline. Followerwonk is one way to try it.

The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft. <–Is that true?

People search engines vary in capabilities and features. Some are certainly better than others but all move to serve the same purpose; to get you the information you are searching for. What makes them different? What makes one engine better than another? Read about Whoozy and our thoughts about it here.

I post today with a little curiosity surrounding Twitter. To be honest the site is horrible. It’s boring, lacks interactive features and is frankly everything (In design) opposite of what is preached as hip and cool today. Regardless, in a sad attempt to be cool, here are 2 new features being released.

Advanced searching with LinkedIn’s UI has gotten better. The features are mostly the same, but the layout has made life a lot easier. This coupled with a few added deatires have made sourcing with LinkedIn easier and more effective for recruiters that may not be overly advanced with search.

Network makeup creates the foundation for a strong recruitment campaign when leveraging LinkedIn as a sourcing tool. Recruiting with LinkedIn requires skill and a thorough understanding of the baseline fundamentals of degrees of separation.

LinkedIn is constantly changing and it’s our job to help bring that to you. Readjusting your profile to better fit your needs seems like something that should’ve been integrated 6 years ago, but the truth is it wasn’t. It is now and this may have an effect of the Jobseeker as well as the recruiter

Navigate your job search and career advancement as you would if you were a day trader – watch as many cable news economic panelists as possible and do so regularly. Various corporate Quarterly reports and stock patterns provide a glimpse into what industries are flat, in growth mode

Establish a scorecard to send to your customers to rank the performance of your Recruitment Team. Measuring between 5-10 factors is ideal. My email address is included at the conclusion of this post. Feel free to email me for examples of how this template can be constructed

Establish a scorecard to send to your customers to rank the performance of your Recruitment Team. Measuring between 5-10 factors is ideal. My email address is included at the conclusion of this post. Feel free to email me for examples of how this template can be constructed

The technology landscape has changed dramatically over the last few years. Every month new tools are emerging within social media, video, mobile technologies, etc. and tools to manage all the tools. With so many avenues available it is easy to get swept up

When Social Media started to pick up in popularity, I started to interact with other recruiters around the globe. I quickly realized that most of these folks enjoy sharing their views and don’t mind offering insights on tackling challenges in our industry. I rely on channels such as

For those recruiters out there who are asking, “what about daily planning”, and “what about phone time”? All these basics still apply, this formula embraces and expands on the fundamentals of recruiting, not replaces them….even a “sucky” or “good” recruiter can bang out 100+ calls. A great recruiter ensures

Web 2.0 is on its way out so its not so much about what you name something, but the Brand you build behind it and driving traffic to it with Social Media. Google only brings me about 4% of my traffic. I DELIVER THE REST. I’ve often joked that with the power of Social Media