I'm looking for any recruiters who own an iPhone, iPod Touch or the iPad2 to become part of a beta test for a new mobile recruiting app. Please contact me for details via RecruitingBlogs or shoot me an email 'chris at allcountyjobs dot com'.

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Employers posted over 11,000 jobs in March for candidates with mobile applications skills, up about 5% from February. The top 5 in-demand occupations are web developers, computer software engineers (applications), computer systems analysts, computer support specialists, and computer programmers. The top 25 direct employers actively looking for IT professionals with mobile applications as part of their skill set are listed below.

Top 25…

I came across this recent blog post from Boolean Blackbelt Glen Cathey. Glen is an expert in formulating Boolean Logic queries, no doubt. He receives a lot of credit from the community about his advice.  Since he is viewed by the community as an expert I am holding him to a higher standard. That's why I am writing my critique here.

If you believe his…

Type “screening applicants with social media” in your Google box sometime. You might be surprised by the results. I certainly was.

I had expected to find lots of pages with a title like “Five Tips for Using Social Media When Hiring.” I found some of those, of course, but I found a lot – and I mean dozens – of articles and…

Here’s the latest update of the candidates your competition is currently seeking.



Our data comes from 16,046 staffing firms and recruiters, from which, we’ve listed the top 25 titles being sought and the number of new jobs for each in the past 90 days. In addition, we’ve included the increase or decrease in demand compared to the same 90-day period last year.

Data: WANTED Analytics |…

When a candidate applies for a job, the main part of the experience is the application form itself. And yet, even though everything else is just extras around it, this is the part that some companies fall down on!

The most important thing with regards to candidate experience from an application form is usability.

Is the form: difficult to read? Badly set out? Very long?

If your form is in an unusual font, a very bright/faded colour or is in a similar colour to the…

Editor’s note:  Every have a bad writing day?  I think v1 of this post fell into that category.  This is a revised and expanded version of previous post. 

How do you build a talent community? Is there a step by step method of creating and building a community? Today, I answer those questions differently.

In the past, I described the approach to building community as a recipe.…

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Medical Jobs…

Last week I posted a blog (Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room) that received a great many well thought out and passionate comments. It is the goal of any blogger to draw attention to some topic that is relevant and sparks a good deal of give and take. Needless to say…

I’m a big advocate of staffing technology (of course!), but I also promote using social media in recruiting and staffing. After all, recruiters and staffing professionals need to go where candidates are, and candidates are on the web, checking their email, Facebook accounts, LinkedIn connections, and Twitter feeds.

In this post, I’ll focus exclusively on Twitter and 6…

Within every recruiting process you have specific moments in your recruiting process where candidates fall off.  They may fall off for a variety of reasons: they may be unqualified for the position, be uninterested in the position, the apply process could be too long or broken, they may drop off to return later and a number of other reasons.

It’s important for recruiting organizations to track and identify at what stage in the recruitment process these candidates are dropping…

Hello All:

I have been using LinkedIn the last few years- both as a job seeker and a recruiter. I have always used the basic account type- a.k.a FREE.

Is anyone currently using LinkedIn as a paid site/upgraded account?

Do you feel it is a worthwhile tool?

On average do you feel you are able to access significantly more applicants?

Thank you for your time!!

There have been a lot of blog posts here over the years – 120, to be exact. Some faded quickly, and some didn’t. So I thought it might be useful to have a roundup of what I consider to be the most interesting and useful (if not always successful) posts. Hope you like them!

• People, Balance & Technology: The…

Resourcing Circle has launched an enhanced version of their software which enables companies to build internal talent pools of reviewed contractors and temporary staff. Resourcing Circle automates the process of capturing reviews of contractor performance, storing up-to-date contractor CVs and sharing this information throughout an organisation.

The…

Early on in my career as a recruiter, after the initial call with any candidate, I'd always wonder whether I had learned enough and asked the right questions. I still don't like to think that I know everything.  I'd like to hear what questions recruiters here think other recruiters should be asking more often or even at all.

I haven't been visiting RB as regularly as I'd like to, so if this has been asked and answered before, feel free to move on. :)

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