Social Media

There are already thousands of talent acquisition technology startups focusing on reinventing, revolutionizing or reimagining recruiting, with hundreds of new platforms and providers appearing every year. Getting a full view of the market landscape… Read more

As someone who’s more or less grown up with the commoditization and corporate adoption of social media, and as someone who gets paid to do this stuff, I’ve seen a… Read more

If you’re one of those recruiters who’s at all in tune with the conversation happening in closed Facebook groups, niche industry forums or consume content and commentary in the weird little world… Read more

We always hear candidates talk about the recruiting “black hole.” In fact, it’s such a cliche that, frankly, those of us on the other side of the desk can’t help… Read more

There I was, packed into the sweatbox that was the small club in the heart of downtown Austin, pressed up against that weird mix of slick, suit clad biz dev guys,… Read more

If you’re a recruiter or employer, there’s a good chance that when you opened your inbox last week, you received an e-mail from LinkedIn announcing a class action settlement. Here’s… Read more

For weeks (actually, no, make that months), I’ve sat back and watched a pretty interesting phenomenon unfold. It’s nothing new, of course, but it’s a hell of a lot more… Read more

Stuck in the daily grind of sourcing LinkedIn, Monster and CareerBuilder? It’s not easy to stay focused when your eyes go crossed and boredom kicks in from sourcing the same… Read more

Well, my friends — I suppose it was inevitable. After all, for years we’ve been hearing recruiters use stupid superlatives and specious self-descriptors like “rock star,” “ninja” or (gag) “guru.”… Read more

If you really want to tell how good at sourcing someone really is, the first task to assign them should be to find a recent, relevant and comprehensive guide to… Read more

Back in January 2013, Facebook launched one of the most awesome sourcing/recruiting tools of our time, better known as Graph Search. This was pretty much just basically a search engine… Read more

Recruiting and HR is basically a perpetual balancing act. We’re asked to juggle being equal parts psychologist, peacekeeper, business partner, and now, we’re supposed to be marketers, too. Crazy, I know. That’s… Read more

I can’t remember the last time I used Tumblr – besides maybe a one off campaign where some CEO insisted that we use the platform (which hasn’t happened very often). Just… Read more

Hootsuite, a high growth, high tech employer based in Vancouver has emerged as one of the most widely used social business platforms on the market. Its enterprise social monitoring and… Read more

I can generally beat colds before they start. My time-honored prescription is soup, tea and lots of cold meds, which almost always does the trick. Despite my best efforts, however, my… Read more