This is the era of computers and technology associated to it. It is spread in almost all areas of human life. Nowadays all business activities are automated using this technology. Recruitment process is also part of the automated systems. If you are job consultant or placement agency it is must to have your job portal in order to serve job seekers and employers because all the activities are carried out through the net only. All businesses go for their sites to grow with the…

I have been lurking (albeit with a few interjections of wisdom) in several tweet chats in the past few weeks. All dedicated to “how tos” How to find a job, how to write a resume, how to interview. From the vantage point of having listened to HR and hiring managers give me feedback after candidate interviews for over three decades my opinion of tweet chat how tos can be best described by the thought I had in the middle of one of them last week. Damn! This is like Playin the Dozens with a…

In his book Socialnomics, Erik Qualman highlights how, in this social media era   

we currently find ourselves, word-of-mouth has gone world-of-mouth.  As in consumer marketing, you can advertise until you’re blue in the face but the fact of the matter is people are more likely to react to a call-to-action if they receive it from a trusted source such as…

Conor Neill, a close friend of mine and a prominent Entrepreneur in Spain, wrote this short story below for…

Searching for a job can be very stressful but just as any stressful situation there are things a person can do to relive some of the pressure.  There are five quick steps that I think should be utilized when starting your job search, it will help keep you motivated.

Step 1: Get a notebook and a pencil!  Start asking yourself what it is you want to do and what it is you’re good at!  What would be your ideal position and what will you need to do to get there?  This notebook should stay…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about Charlie Sheen’s social recruiting efforts, traits that make a great recruiter, searching LinkedIn, setting project priorities and this year’s ERE Expo.

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

This morning, as I wandered round with my classic combo of tea and toast, I heard on the news about stadiums being taken apart and sold off in little bits after the London 2012 Olympics. Now this piqued my curiosity, as I had not exactly thought that they would keep everything (seeing how long it took them to find a good use for the 'Millennium Dome'..) but being that they keep going on about the number of permanent jobs will provide, I started to wonder how.

In 2009, Gordon Brown was…

I am here at my first ERE conference – I know what took me so long! My first day was great – I loved the ideas about employment brand, thrilled by the discussions of engagement and envious of the really cool tools some of the companies can afford. Just as thrilling is catching up with folks I haven’t seen since the last conference or finally meeting someone face to face that I have only known online.

But I am also a big people watcher, more importantly shoes! No, I…

You know what, earlier this year I reached my 2500th connection on LinkedIn, as I saw that I thought whoa, how did THAT happen?  Well by utilizing my networking strategy which harnessed a network so vast that it's value to me has never been more pronounced, on any given day - I come up in about 45 searches, and have about 20 people looking at my LinkedIn profile.  That's almost 140 hits a week and that there are solid folks I can check on to see where they come from and due to my $25 premium…

I’ll start off by saying I need to see a doctor, it is now 04:00 in the UK and I have been awake since 02:30 thinking about sourcing candidates and what methods and tools yield great results.  I know I am addicted to sourcing!

I first became addicted to internet sourcing probably in 2007 when I first got sucked into the underworld and began to hear about Shally Steckerl, Job Machine and AIRS Training and certificates. 

What I was reading sounded like the…

At what point do startups need outside help to find the right people for their open positions?

Start-ups need outside help in recruiting under three circumstances:

1. The need for talent goes beyond the contact base of the founders and their acquaintances. This could be for greater technical skill, Sales execs who can establish strategic…

Staffing professionals need more than great staffing software to help them do their jobs. They need to know what other tools are out there and how they can be used for top-notch recruitment.

I recently learned about Quora, a social networking site that describes itself as “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who…

Radical Quebec: Newbies to Recruiting:

This is a copy of the presentation I recently gave at Radical Quebec. I chose to use it as my blog as I believe many of the points used, should be reviewed by others. Enjoy the read.  Dan

What is Recruiting? To me recruiting is the ability to fill a need or an opening with someone qualified to fulfill on said need or opening. It’s looking into your rolodex of contacts and matching column A (the person) with column B (the opening)…

I think we can all agree that collecting recruiting metrics in your recruitment process is important!  Not only does it help you understand what's working and what's not in your recruitment funnel but it enables you to make actionable decisions on your recruitment marketing mix and strategy.

The key, however, is creating a dashboard of sorts within your recruitment process that enables you to view…

We know finding the right candidate can be like finding a needle in a haystack. You want to be sure you hire the right one, so it’s logical you want to take your time. But don’t let time be an interference.

The hiring process should be about getting to know the candidate to figure out if they’re the right fit for the position. It shouldn’t have to be lengthy process (although sometimes it’s inevitable).

Realistically, this process should take no more than four…

Did you know that, according to a study done by Basex, the average time spent being interrupted in a typical work day and getting back into a groove is 2.1 hours? This is almost 1/3 of a person’s time at work! The internet has been a blessing and a curse for the world of the employed. Employees forward fun emails between each other all the time and social networking is practiced consistently at any job with computers available. I know what you’re thinking. You are scared now. Distractions…

You’ve been working hard to put your resume in the best noticeable format, you’ve contacted everyone in your network, and you’ve posted to every job board you can think of.  Within a few days, the calls start coming in and you have first interviews scheduled for all of next week.  You have prepared studying interview questions, and looking into the company to have some idea who you might be working with in your future.  You get to the interview, sit down, your hands begin to sweat and…

By iCIMS Blogger Karen Bucks

What is Recruitment Marketing?



According to good old ERE:



Recruitment marketing used to mean writing job ads and placing them in newspapers. Today, it covers a wide…