Social Media

It seems like 20 years already, but it’s still the buzz word around recruiting, and it’s almost as if you are a the odd man out if you ar ea recruiter and not taking advantage. There are conference around the term “social” now and corporate strategies being dedicated to it. What’s yours?

In a matter of weeks one of the most power packed, non-traditional hopefully to become a tradition in recruiting conferences will be taking place. If you haven’t heard RecruitFest is back, and it’s better than the original. Check out why and who I am going to meet on my journey to recruitfest…

Some people call sourcing an art simply because they are not able to break down their own sourcing process into a series of repeatable steps, including the analytical thought processes applied. The goal is not to remove thought from the process – in fact…read it all here:

There are so many tools and services in our industry, each vying for your attention and promising to be the only solution you need. However, many of them are mostly “bells and whistles”, providing little value to your organization’s employment brand or recruitment effectiveness. DOWNLOAD the Full Genome Project Here FREE!

How long have you been on Twitter? How about LinkedIn? Facebook? Friendster? Friendfeed? Touch economic times might effect hiring but it shouldn’t effect your reach. Take a quick read from Kim Hollenshead: “Creatively Weave Your Networking Web”

So when we throw in the idea of recruiting tomorrow’s workforce through social networks and the fun dialogue with naysayers that follows, I keep coming back to one thing – Evolution. Don’t think its relative? Think again.

Google can’t solve every search, but it can sure as heck get you closer to the answer in most cases. Shannon Myers outlines 7 ways to help you adjust your search to stay in tune with evolving search techniques. In the end it’s back to the basics…

Robin Hood Tactics for Sourcing Top Talent: 3 great and out of the box ways to ensure your talent lines are alwyas full of eager and work ready talent. Karla Porter takes us on a journey down fairytale lane…

If you plan ahead, you will always have good material to share with your network. With social recruiting, as with all recruiting activities, you should plan for tomorrow before you leave today. Focus on the activities that will get you closer to your goals.

While a lot of this might sound familiar to most of you, there are plenty of talent acquisition specialists that are overlooking the obvious and it is affecting their time-to-fill metrics and retention ratings.Soft Skills – Do yo have them?

Groundswell: “a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations.” Glenn Gutmacher VP of ACES (Arbita) gives us a fast paced information packed recap of his recent Kennedy presentation…

Very cool, Very innovative and developed for 3 sets of users. The Job Seeeker, The Corporation and Yes, you the Recruiter! TwitterJobSearch is fast, slick, and uses some very cool natural language processing. – The full review is posted on RecruitingBlogs.com

It’s revolutionized communication and no doubt the way social recruiters are recruiting. It’s big fun for us, but for others like Mark Zuckerberg it’s big business. Recently Justin Smith of InsideFacebook.com sat down with Zuckerberg to discuss…

Let’s be real here for a second. Automation and technology have surely changed the game, but do you seriously think it’s taken the human touch out of the process? I’d respect your thoughts, but laugh at you simultaneously. In this age of social media, social networking and automation, the process might be swifter…

Twitter is a phenomenal tool for many reasons. Regardless of your passion leveraging Twitter can prove to be extremely successful. If however you have no grip on reality and really have no backbone to who you are, you can be lost. Your Passion = Your Brand, dives into the idea of…