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 candidate experience stories, sourcing, online recruiting surveys, Monster's new BeKnown and some cool info-graphics.

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

Regular readers of the Rockwood Blog already know how important it is to avoid typos.

But sometimes even perfect spelling and grammar aren’t enough – there are some things that should be left off a resume.

Here’s a great article from Yahoo! Finance discussing 10 things…

Don’t miss the opportunities. Here are some ways to access 3 large sets of organized data that LinkedIn has pulled from the Deep Web into the open.

Welcome #LinkedIn Updates

To learn more about LinkedIn from this post, simply start at…

Since the July 4^th weekend is upon us, we realize this is an opportune time to relax, catch up with family and friends, enjoy life and be thankful for everything our wonderful country offers.

This holiday weekend is also a good time to reflect about your professional career – where you are, where you want to go, and how you’re going to get there. If you’re an…

I couldn't help but smile as I drove home today, blessings abounded as my belief in incredible possibilities in my staffing realm had all but hit me in incredible bursts.  A 4 hire day.  Something as magical as that I have had privilege of being a part of before in April, but to do it in this way well it was just a sweet little icing on the cake to a day I knew would end with some interesting moments, while I was sourcing the day away helping partner recruiters nail thier placements - my job…

The site works on…

Every year The Redhead (my wife) watches The Oscars. She loves to see celebrities walk on the red carpet, check out the expensive jewelry or clothing, enjoy the faces of the winners and hear them give the rushed acceptance speeches. We as viewers are always shown the top handful of contenders for each award just before the envelope is ripped apart and the winner's name (or…

You ever wonder what recruiting would look like in a perfect world?  What your recruitment strategy and process would be if you didn't have supply or demand problems in your recruitment funnel?

I have and here is what I think of when I visualize the steps of a perfect recruitment marketing process:

1. Job Opening: First and…

Partnerships in the Recruiting Industry can creating a winning dynamic or spell certain disaster. Before jumping into any form a business partnership consider the following thoughts:

SHARE THE SAME VISION ~ For any partnership to be successful, everyone  involved must agree on the same strategic direction of the company. If…

After many years in the world of recruiting, it is easy to forget how tough it was to get started. 

Making that 1^st call, negotiating pay rates, people not showing up for interviews, people turning down offers, & of course finally - your 1^st placement!  Starting out on the rightpath can help the road be a little less bumpy……

The 1^stcall: Making that 1^st call can be intimidating.  I’ve seen lots of new…

It's quite interesting! LinkedIn keeps organizing more data and taking it out of the Deep Web.

Check it out:



Recently Updated Profiles

(Guess who is likely to update their LinkedIn profiles.)

In your results check on the cached pages.

-Irina

P.S. This is the previous set of data. Want to view all job titles with a…

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.  - Abraham Lincoln

I just happened to be surfing business news on the Washington Post when I spotted a headline about tax rates and job creation in one graph.  That led to two articles: The Myth of the Lower Marginal Tax Rates, and Rich…

Candidates and clients are attracted to recruiters who are experts in both the recruiting industry and their niche.  Blogging is an excellent platform for recruiters to generate thought leadership, and demonstrate their expertise .  However, it can be intimidating to come up with a monthly, weekly, or even daily post.

Are you a recruiter who wants to start blogging, but is afraid of running out of ideas?  Don’t be.  Writing blog posts does not have to be a lot of work.  There…

In June, Computerworld announced their list of the Top 100 Places to Work in IT for 2011.  We took a look at hiring demand, trends, and new jobs generated for IT and Computer Programming professionals at Computerworld’s top 10 companies over the past 90 days.

Computerworld’s Top 10 Companies to Work in IT in 2011 …

• Contract recruiters are…