The hashtag #FirstSevenJobs caused a social media explosion last summer after the question was posed by a singer-songwriter asking fans to help out with a new song by listing their early jobs. The internet quickly responded with CEOs, celebrities, astronauts and even the former President of the United States playing along. The response was both…

This article was written by our CEO Joe Musacchio and published in Money Inc. Any recruiter will enjoy reading about the good ole days of the staffing industry and how the process used to be. Imagine recruiting before email, smartphones and social media...…

Not sure what a Boolean Search is or how it’s used in recruitment?  Look no further!  This handy blog post will tell you how they work and why we use them – aren’t you lucky?

What are they?

Boolean searches are related to concept of mathematics and symbol logic developed by George Boole, a mathematician in the 19th century (don’t I sound smart).  They basically allow the combination of five different elements to conduct a search.  These…

Many small and medium sized businesses often struggle with the concept of employee insurance. Most importantly, getting the best return on investment from specific employee benefits can be challenging. Think about it, it's even harder to determine the actual ROI on these benefits. For instance, how do you tell whether shifting the workday a couple of hours had any measurable impact on your team's productivity? What about the yoga class your employees took last week, did it…

So you’ve beat out the competition’s offers and recruited a top tech candidate. Game over, right? Not necessarily. Your onboarding process will have a significant impact on the retention and engagement of that employee. At a time when  …

Social media is no longer just used as a social tool. Facebook , Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media platforms are being utilized by job seekers looking for their next career move and is something that companies really need to integrate into their social media strategies. What do you include in a successful HR social…

It is a multipolar smartphone world that dominates our existence with Android, iOS and Windows OS leading the app marketplaces. You need a smart breed of developers that have either superb native app development expertise or cross platform experience to be able to deliver modern, multi-platform apps.



Smartphone app development differs from other types of development because it has a lot to do with the various device screens and user interaction and experience. There are tons of…

As a small business owner, you might not currently offer health insurance for your employees. This isn't something that is required, so it's certainly understandable why you might not offer this perk. Plus, you might have always assumed that it would be expensive to offer health insurance to employees. However, even if you haven't given it much thought in the past, you may want to reconsider your position. These are a few reasons why it can be worth it for small business…

As a digital specialist I spend a lot of time online looking at the digital channels of businesses. In preparation for some industry workshops & webinars I recently reviewed 20 recruitment websites from various locations and of various sizes to see how they compared and any common issues that stood out to me.

This is what I found:

• CEO’s that don’t have a digital profile (or a LinkedIn profile)
• Social media feeds that were just job posts
• Lack of story…

The Anonymous session of day 2 consisted of several presentations to include-Underground Old School Hacks by Kevin Walters and Hacking a Conference Attendees List by Aaron Lintz.

Underground Old School Hacks by Kevin Walters. He discusses doing a Talent Level Mapping, in other words, competitive Intel. He used Linkedin to gain a lot of this…

If you love to travel, you could combine this passion with your major and put together a career that will satisfy your needs for adventure and income. Traveling allows you to see other ways of life, try new foods and take in incredible sights. Consider one of these four careers that could involve lots of travel.

Detecting Disease Outbreaks as an…

“We went to SourceCon last year.” Interrupting him mid sentence, I asked, “How was that?”

I always wanted to know if it was worth the cost. “Would I gain anything by attending the conference?”

His face hardened a bit, I could see from the tightness in his face muscles that he had not been impressed.…

What is the candidate experience, and why does it really matter?

Recruiting.com defines the candidate experience as the series of interactions that a job seeker has with your company throughout the recruiting process. These interactions include any communication that a candidate receives from your brand messaging, software systems and/or…

The diversity of a recruitment website is vital to its survival in the digital ecosystem, but for recruiters who are already pressed for time to contact clients and candidates, maintaining that habitat can be more than impractical. It can be impossible. This is why we so often have clients…

It’s become an age-old question for IT professionals across the country. At conferences, in email inboxes, and through conversations with peers, the topic of how to further one’s technical skill set is practically inescapable. The mentality has become so ingrained into tech culture that …

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Kimberly Horan, Executive Search Recruiter at OneWire

After seeing a number of teams still relying on the “post and pray” model, I wanted to share some tips this week on how hiring managers and recruiters can source candidates faster. One of…

Leaving a business card may not erase the joke you cracked at the most inconvenient time nor improve your way of conversing with your client, but it inevitably leaves a striking impression.

If you present your contact information poorly,…

For human resources departments, getting through a peak hiring season can feel like running a mental marathon. Without the right preparation, it's easy to fall behind.

From posting jobs and reviewing résumés to making screening calls and sitting in on interviews, the list of to-dos is seemingly infinite. And with no end in sight, it's easy for HR pros to fall into a state of chronic stress. To be sure, new technologies have streamlined the hiring process, but sifting through 100…

There is nothing scarier for a recruiter than loosely-designed recruitment software. Screening candidates can be a nightmare if your applicant tracking system is not having all the important features that are in line with modern recruitment processes. An ATS is aimed at streamlining the process of hiring candidates for a recruiter and making the communication with the potential candidates easier. However, all the recruitment software are not the same and differ from each other in many…