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Say goodbye to updating and uploading resumes, completing application forms, phone tag and bad blind interviews.

It’s big, It’s bad, It’s LinkedIn Jobs and it’s changing. This time for the better. Recruiters, if you do not already own groups, manage groups or have a direct line of sight to groups of your own or clients, you’ll want to look at this and reconsider your views.

Excellent video by Shane McCusker of Intelligence Recruitment Software originally posted on RecruitingBlogs.com. [vimeo url=”http://vimeo.com/38352727l” width=”500″ height=”300″]

As a recruiter, utilizing a job board has one obvious advantage – it is the quickest way to publicize your jobs to a mass target audience and receive an inbox full of resumes. But posting on a job board is the “pay and pray” approach to sourcing talent – you receive a high volume of low qualified candidates. And paying for the service regardless of the results can be quite frustrating when you don’t find who you want.

Recruiting Video is widely debated. We take a look at why you should not use it to recruit. Every good recruiter has a packed tool kit full with useful tools for sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates – tools likeLinkedin, job boards, assessment tests, and an easy-to-use ATS.

Another SHRM 2012 interview by TakeTheInterview.com’s VP Ty Abernathy (no he is not the guy in the suit!) found a cool tool to reward employees…we like it…do you?

At the recent SHRM12 in Atlanta, our roving reporter and TakeTheInterview.com VP Ty Abernathy found a new cool product that is ready to launch July 10th. He is talking to Yousuf Khatib, our Global Head of Marketing for Loosemonkies.com

As more and more competitors and rivals enter into the world of online commerce, it becomes increasingly difficult to win the attention of prospective customers. If your business is to… Read more

I am always trying out new apps to make my recruiting desk more efficient. The recent purchase of Rapportive by Linkedin made me finally try the app that I have been reading about and I am sure glad I did. I thought it sounded like Xobni and it is but for Gmail.

Rapportive is a free app (recently acquired by LinkedIn) that shows you everything about your contacts right inside your inbox. Rapportive helps you build rapport quickly (hence the name) and is “relationship management built into your email.” It functions as a Gmail add on

WiseStamp is a handy dandy app that allows you to customize your email signature.

I use the free version in conjunction with Gmail and it works swimmingly well for both branding and presenting a professional signature from a web-based email account. WiseStamp is compatible with other web-based email systems like Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, AOL and a few more (there’s a Thunderbird add-on).

TweetDeck Rolls Out Updates

I have been a fan of working from home for a long time now. But alas, I do have an office or two…and for years I needed to bring files between locations. Using thumbdrives, discs, and email was how I got it done, and it worked most of the time.

Last month, I encouraged job seekers to step away from the job boards and step outside to get some fresh air, network, volunteer and reconnect with industry peers.

While it’s important for job seekers to get out and about, it’s equally as important to remain accessible to recruiters. Mobile apps empower job seekers to spend their days away from the computer, but still connect as needed. Here are a few apps that help manage the mobile job search.

  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