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If there’s one thing recruiters may never tire of, it’s trash talking other recruitment companies. If you’ve spent any time at all in this industry, you’ve surely heard the self-congratulatory… Read more

There are a lot of tools that try to leverage the power of LinkedIn, but let’s be honest. Most of these tools are lightweight or have little to no potential…. Read more

Beamery is a Recruitment CRM software that enables companies to engage and nurture candidates so that they can build a proactive pipeline of candidates rather than the typical reactionary methods… Read more

When you do a standard boolean search, you will get results from all over the web. But what if you want to find teachers or students? Do you want all… Read more

If there’s one recruiting anthem we’ve all probably heard before, it’s these three, seemingly simple words: “Recruiting is Marketing.” The two distinct disciplines have long been compared to one another,… Read more

Fun fact about Katrina you probably didn’t know: I was the president of my college sorority. Yeah, I know, if you know me today, you’re thinking, “yeah, right,” if for no… Read more

In a new series on RecruitingTools, each week I’ll be featuring a newly discovered Chrome Extension – breaking down the features and use cases for sourcing and recruiting experts. These… Read more

The overlap between recruitment and inbound marketing has been widely discussed, and rightfully so; they’re more or less same exact stuff, different purchasing decision. Both of these trending topics have… Read more

While I’m generally pretty good at reading the M&A market in the HR Technology space, I admit that the announcement that venerable tech titan Microsoft was acquiring LinkedIn took me,… Read more

It is official. On June 13, 2016 Microsoft and LinkedIn announced their definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at… Read more

The first time I used Waze was a revelation. This was not because of the network effects it generates, but more importantly, because of how transparently the application’s user interface… Read more

We have not heard from Monster in a while. I have a feeling that is about to change. On June 8, 2016, Monster announced that is has purchased Jobr. Jobr,… Read more

When I started my recruiting career, I was bombarded with recommendations for the “must-have” tools I needed to excel in this field. Even now, I receive messages almost daily asking if I’m interested… Read more

There are 2.3 billion active social media users in the world. With all of those users, social media recruitment is a no-brainer. But where do you start? I can’t tell… Read more

Rejection isn’t anything new. Even the most suave among us have experienced it at some point in dating or life – whether it be rejection by a potential partner or from… Read more