The idea that extroverts alone should lead the workforce is slowly fading away. Susan Cain’s book …

Can you imagine spending $140 billion dollars on something you aren’t happy with? ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY BILLION DOLLARS.  That’s enough money to buy each citizen of Brazil coffee every day for the entire year. You’d be a saint down there.

This is the dilemma the recruiting industry faces: $140 billion is the amount spent EVERY YEAR by…

According to some educational institutions, plagiarism is no longer their biggest problem. It is the issue of external people writing essays and other papers for students that are very troublesome for colleges and universities. It seems that today’s educators face another form of academic fraud, caused by sudden increase in a number of internet services offering prompt essay writing services. As a result,…

There has been a longstanding debate about whether a Recruiter’s LinkedIn profile should be personal or in sync with the Company’s vision/ policies they work for. A discussion encourages two perspectives leaving you with mixed responses. 

In such a scenario reaching a conclusion is difficult hence @SourcingAdda we decided to get to similar ground  based on the suggestion of the …

Moz is a SEO orientated site were SEO type people live, talk, and show their skills. MOZ is not well known in the staffing community and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying.

So to source within MOZ you simply…

Are you a businessman looking to build your enterprise or a blogger who wants to start a blog of his own to show the world what he is capable of? If you often wonder whether the traditional ways of gathering audience is enough or not, then the answer is a big NO. You have to build your own website, my friend! That’s the only solution.

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Inspiration can come from anywhere. A career opportunity to advance, working as part of a  well-oiled team or nailing a challenging task are perceived in different ways from employee to employee. George can value repetition as progress, while…

I have this theory that job ads reflect the "quality" of a company's culture. Here are a few examples of what I mean... 

Job ads full of typos, misspellings, grammar errors and poor formatting, such as chunks of jumbled text, look sloppy and reflect a place that doesn't value professional communication skills or care about producing audience oriented…

We're live here in Austin - halfway through our road tour of Texas. If you haven't heard about it yet, we're hitting the road this week to connect senior HR and recruiting people with our insider crew of vendors. Now, this isn't like any event we've been to in the recruiting industry. In fact, we had to partner with Brits, aka …

In the last 8 or so years we have seen a lot of disruption in the recruitment industry. The traditional advertising channels like job boards and newspapers have become increasingly under pressure and for good reason. Now the new disruptive competitors in the recruitment industry are taking their corners in what should be an interesting…

This week all my various news feeds have been full of comments about two recent events: Connectifier being acquired by LinkedIn and LinkedIn’s share price tanking.

Dealing with Connectifier first; I’ve tried using it several times, it’s not a bad piece of kit. It’s comparable in a lot of ways to 360 Social, TalentBin, Discoverly, Prophet and the like, but with a comparatively…

A lot of people don’t realize just how important effective branding is when you’re running a charity. How else can people trust you with their money?

Trust is important inany industry - but it’s especially vital if you’re running a charity. After all, if people are going to give your organization money in support of a good cause, they need to be able to trust that their contribution is actually being…

Imagine being a warrior. A skilled one. And you’ve been called to display your skills at an archery competition that you are sure you will nail!

Based on a suggestion from Andy Headworth and just before St Valentines day, I've been looking at sourcing techniques for recruiters to find love. As a result I've added to my Facebook search tool to include 'Relationship Status' and 'Interested In' searches. You can now use this to find single people who like recruiters.

I can think of no practical (or legal)…

Fortune 100 released their …

I spent a lot of time in my previous talent acquisition roles targeting college students for my various employers. We had two goals in mind, build brand awareness of our company and drive applicants. We had to make them aware of potential opportunities first before they could apply.…

Are we experiencing a general tools decline? What are the most innovative tool concepts since people aggregators made their appearance a few years ago?

Here are some tools that have reduced functionality or are gone altogether:

• The latest version of MS Outlook no longer supports the Social Connector. The last Outlook version that still supports ir, the one from Office 2013, has stopped supporting LinkedIn.
• Topsy, the search engine that…

In today’s highly competitive economic climate, it is more important than ever that as a business owner you keep employees happy and motivated. It is no secret that when employees are engaged they are more productive and when they are more productive profits are higher. A happy and engaged employee is one that does not miss work, performs at their highest potential, and…

Here it goes! The NEW infographic made by skeeled this week :)…

There are many reasons it is an exciting time to be a healthcare professional. Now more than ever before it is important for anyone working in the medical field to have ongoing training on the newest techniques and technologies. Online training for healthcare professionals offers an excellent opportunity for growth on your terms.

Learn What You Need to…