Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about lessons from Jay-Z, employment branding, recruiting collaboration, job advertisements and sharing Facebook passwords.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order),…

I am a Social Media and Marketing Exec and I work for a recruitment company called Lipton Fleming (LF). Here at LF we try to change with the ever adapting media landscape, not only by being a recruitment consultancy that “Places people first” (our slogan and for all intents and purposes our mission statement but) by moving with the times.

This does not mean jumping on the bandwagon and following the latest…

Western Canada is about to brace itself for another labour market crunch.  Search assignments are up but candidates are not available to fill.  After a two-year run in an employee market, employees are back on top as the industry once again struggles to find the right people from a finite group.  The effects to hiring practise start to change again, taking new dynamics requiring that we clarify for our clients and potential clients the following changes to their recruiting…

The economic climate and unemployment rate remains stubbornly sour. There are six candidates for every one job. But, guess what? Despite the challenging economy, cautious recruiters and skittish hiring managers, the business world is humming along like it always has. Money is being made, products are being sold, business deals are being made and innovative disruptive startups are the talk of Silicon Valley. There are job prospects and job opportunities galore out there for the determined…

@animal @ResumeStrategy I'll proudly wear my "I realize Twitter is BS and has nothing to do with recruiting" Badge of Honor. #EveryDay

— Jerry Albright (@Jerry_Albright) April 28, 2011…

Hi everyone!

I just want to introduce myself, and say that I'm happy to be a new member of this community.  Guess I'll start off by helping everyone a little with my name pronunciation: ro-kee-ta.  There! Now you have learned something about me :).

I'm a marketing coordinator for…

Do your clients know how to hire for attitude?

According to Mark Murphy, author of Hiring for Attitude, employers' inability to successfully assess candidates' attitudes during the hiring process is the reason why so many fail so quickly.  In a recent Forbes interview, he said that of the 200,000…

Recruiting organizations are faced with more sourcing choices today than ever before.  And they are constantly looking for ways and insight to make sense of them.

It’s no secret that having the right data is extremely important to this process.  If used properly, metrics enable companies to make crucial recruitment campaign decisions that successfully drive sourcing results.

However, it’s not just about capturing the “right” data but just as…

That was the basic premise of a talk I recently gave at the Minnesota Recruiters' Conference earlier this month.  The presentation was titled, "Winning The Talent War With Effective Job Posts."

I thought I would share the main point of the talk...

Typical job posts do not affect a potential candidate's desire to apply.

Our job posts are all about our companies and what we want - they are totally focused on us.  We need…

most recent recruiting @animal shows have not been worthwhile, but todays show has possibilities @shally 11am est blogtalkradio/animal

— John C Burzynski (@cyBURsleuth) March 21, 2012…

“Two’s company, three’s a crowd”….….

I was reminded of this saying last week when I found myself playing middle man between a client and candidate who were negotiating a package.

We have all been there. Your client phones you to make your candidate an offer. It might be a bit lower than what your candidate asked for, but your client wants to see if it will…

There has been a lot written (some by me!) on whether recruiters should trust candidates; and on how much job seekers tell the truth vs lie, etc.

This makes me recall a couple of early TV game shows.  “Who Do You Trust?”, originally hosted by Johnny Carson, was about whether husbands trusted themselves or their wives better to answer the quiz question posted…

It is inevitable that in today’s society you will encounter some sort of interaction with social media. Whether you are an active user or a passive user, you will eventually have some sort of online presence. Maybe you are tagged in a YouTube video or a Facebook photo. Your name is almost guaranteed to be populated somewhere on the World Wide Web.

A lot of controversy has risen regarding employers who follow up on potential…

Recruiters have unprecedented access to phenomenal technology. Some solutions are free, some are a large investment. Some provide basic sourcing tools, and some solutions have so many bells and whistles, it’s hard to figure out a use for them all.

No matter what your budget, or your goals, everyone has access to great technology.

But there’s one key element great…

Mutualhunter is a Non-Profit organisation providing service to all headhunters.

It provides a plaftform for headhunters on talking, meeting, helping, sharing and even crying with each other. 

Mutualhunter in the same time provides free training, consulting, counselling, and suggestion to hunters, HRs and candidates.



We are enterprising to build www.mutualhunter.com up to the Best…

Dear All my Colleagues, Friends, Strangers, and Enemies, 



Good Morning! 



This is Mark Ma formly with MRI China Group. 



After 7 years working as a headhunter, I decided to serve Headhunters! 



Mutualhunter.com is such a platform where you can: 

* Sharing your experience, discuss your cases, ask any question and get feedback from other headhunters/HRs/Line Managers. 

* Show your companies (HH), show your openings, show…

We’ll admit right out of the gate that this is one blog post that directly relates to the type of business we run at ShinyNeedle. In order to write this post we had to mention our website, and we had to discuss challenge based hiring. There are hundreds of job posting websites available today. We just recently posted an article on how to manage the extremely large world of job posting websites. There are some that provide zero value, and some that have a bigger brand and have found ways to…

Its a typical Monday morning.  The staff comes in to work in the usual fashion.  The beginning of the workweek yet again, however, something is different.  Over the past couple of years, sales have been "OK" but you have seen better years in the past.  You have shrugged it off and blamed it on the bad economy.  Yes, it must be the economy.  The worst financial times since the great depression.... Right??

You check your year over year…

DO ME A FAVOR: Visit http://bit.ly/BradCook_Interview & CLICK LINKEDIN SHARE WIDGET AT BOTTOM OR ARTICLE within link

OR Go direct to

I invite you to listen to Total Picture Radio innovation spotlight - MUST READ ON TALENT ACQUISITION: Featuring multi-award winning leader - Brad Cook, Global Vice President Talent Acquisition



Linkedin Profile:…

There are many self-help books for introverts—Self-Promotion for Introverts, Ancowitz; Networking for People who Hate Networking, Zack; The Introverted Leader, Kahnweiler; to name a few. This appears a bit odd to me, because I never thought that introverts need that much help.

I’ve often wondered if the introvert’s companion, the extravert,…