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When you think of the holidays, what comes to mind? How about holiday carols and jingle bells? Snow flakes and hot chocolate? Or… how about…

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. This week we’ll be talking about social media, the trouble with LinkedIn, job ad messaging, Talent Communities, mobile recruiting and the Jobs2Web acquisition.

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

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I know now that I am removed from reality. I thought that my recent interviews with Jennifer McClure and Shally Steckerl and CoraMae Lengeman were pretty good. The masses however thought that this show was a breath of fresh air compared to my recent offerings.

Linda Brenner on…

As recruiters it's not in your per view to motivate employees, but if you also have functions in HR, employee moral is most likely something you deal with everyday.

Motivating and compensating employees is a challenge faced by every business owner, manager, HR department, and talent developer the world over. Faced with this new information economy where we are constantly ‘wired in’, engagement of top talent is more highly competed for than ever. Recruiting then retaining top talent is…

Do you remember recruitment back in the 1990s? I do. A typical day would start with the post being delivered, we would gather around and rip open all the envelopes, pore over the CVs, passing them around the boardroom table in Number 2 Argyle Square, Donnybrook, where I started my recruitment career with HRM…

Regardless if you are in a firm or in an internal recruiting role, trust is the brand you are selling.  I have walked into offices of new clients, as well as internal hiring leaders new to work with me who had a bitter taste of past recruiters.  'Tis true...there are bad recruiters who give our industry a bad name.  The complaint is often about either promises broken, poor quality of candidates presented, or the favorite act of "Disappearing Recruiter" (where did they go, hello is…

Earlier in the year, we reported that hiring at some of the largest websites in the U.S. had been strong. We decided to revisit these companies – and a few  more – to see what hiring demand has been like for these "web giants" over the past 90 days. The companies we looked at were: Amazon,…

Sometimes recruiting is just being in the right place at the right time. Oh, I know, it's lots of work and we have to be good with people, no fear of rejection, yada yada. But some days you just have to shake your head and thank your lucky stars that there is such a thing as pure dumb luck.

It's only Wednesday but so far I've had two insanely lucky breaks this week. Scenario #1 - after WEEKS of sourcing for a very tough to fill purchasing role I got a hit from a LinkedIn…

Niche microsites offer great results for large and small companies alike to showcase their recruitment brand and reach job seekers in a highly targeted and many times less trafficked environment.

Here are 5 companies that have taken advantage of niche microsites and optimized their outreach to job seekers with extremely specific searches:

Room To Be Yourself - Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG)…

It has been a busy few days in the HR Tech Space.  It all began when SAP announced it’s $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors on Saturday to put the HR Technology industry on notice.  Then yesterday it got really interesting with the surprising news that SuccessFactors acquired…

The game of “musical chairs” has begun as employees begin to jump ship for better employment opportunities.  The aftermath of a recession is employee disengagement.  Unfortunately, your key players won’t tell you they are dissatisfied until they are walking out the door.  As well-performing companies start to cherry pick top talent, it begins a chain of employee turnover events that will affect many companies.

72% of employers restructured or laid off employees since the recession…

Flavors.me can be described as a personal content management system, a tool for aggregating your social media presence, and personal landing page.

The appeal of the site is the ability to create an aesthetically pleasing web page without the need for web design experience, for free.

And if you are a recruiter specializing in the creative industry, it could be another site for finding fresh talent.

Active and passive candidates are finding the value of giving people…

As social media becomes more ubiquitous to our lives HR professionals are taking note.SHRM findings suggest that while more and more Recruitment and HR professionals are taking advantage of screening candidates through social media, a still large number are apprehensive to use social media as a resource to screen…

With so many social networking sites now available and new sites being developed on a daily basis, it is often hard to know which networking sites are worthwhile especially in helping to find a new job. 

We have all heard of Facebook and Twitter (If you haven’t where have you been hiding!).. however when it comes to job networking in my opinion every person,…

Is Path finally on the right… path?

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Path, an underdog in the social networking world has just…

Facebook or LinkedIn? Which is better to recruit with, my dear? When it comes to advertising, Twitter says you can have it your way. How is this for a cool recruiting strategy? Solve an online puzzle and you get to apply for a spy job for the British government. All this, plus Jim Stroud goes hip hop, if only for a moment, on this episode of The Jim Stroud Show. …

There is a great post on the LinkedIn Blog about some research they did on employer brand. You can read whole post, but here are the key findings:

• The cost per hire is over 2 times lower for companies with strong employer brands
• Companies with…

You post a job.  Candidates apply.  And this is where the screening process begins for most recruiting organizations.  First, recruiters filter through resumes in their ATS to find qualified candidates to interview.  Second, they interview the best candidates and progress them into more interviews if needed.  Lastly, they take all the information available to them (from both recruiters & hiring managers) to decide which interviewee is hired at the company.

This screening…

Imagine running a business where you have no idea where revenue comes from or your associated cost to generate it (AKA: expenses). Imagine running a business where you have no idea what your profit margin is? Crazy, right? Well guess what; that’s the way most of you run your business.

To be specific, most recruiters have no idea how to or chose not to use the most important tools on a regular basis, analytics to determine where business comes from and how much money is made. Now,…