We each write a blog for our individual or corporate purpose.

I love writing but tend to use blogs for summary of issues and to generate ideas and commentary from others. I prefer positive posts or topics that will help me or others consider process improvement. I don't enjoy the sales pitch or those that judge people they don't know or rant and rave. I am not consistent in my blogs because my interest are as varied and conceptual as my time to write. I don't pretend to have…

By Karen Bucks, iCIMS Blogger

How transparent are your HR initiatives?

And, I am not talking about your external recruitment and branding efforts. We…

One of the more frustrating aspects of social media and social networking for recruiters is that sometimes, you just don’t know how effective your efforts are. You don’t know if you’re connecting with people, and if you are, how many people.

Well, I have good news for you: there is one way you can track how effective your social media efforts are in Twitter. However, there are a couple of prerequisites for…

Things not going very well at work? Maybe you just want to see what’s ‘out there’ in the jobs marketplace. Whatever your reason for looking for a new job, and however ideal or not your current employer may be, there is still a certain etiquette involved in the way you go about your search.…

Lots of stories – some of them hilarious, some of them tragic – about the increasing use of social media by HR professionals are out there.

Until now, much of the use has been directed toward finding and screening candidates. But problems associated with such use have begun to ripple out, and HR professionals everywhere are (or at least should be)…

On this blog, I talk a lot about recruiting metrics and why they are so important to understand how your recruiting is doing and how they can help you make better recruiting decisions. And I think that we’ve finally got to the point where organizations realize the importance of collecting these metrics in real-time for their recruiting. The main problem is they are still in the dark about…

It’s a fact of recruiting life that clients will push you to negotiate your fees. And with so many recruiters quick to drop fee percentages to secure briefs, that can be a hard discussion to deal

with.

The starting point for successful fee negotiations is, strangely enough, to get the conversation off the fee percentage, and on to the question of what it is your fee is actually for.

And of course, bundled up in that conversation, is your…

Metrics for learning!!

So in the 2nd part of this 4…

I’d assume that we blog on this Forum to share thoughts on the Recruiting Industry as it applies to our experiences of it. Hopefully, we get a chance to share, question, agree, disagree, learn and yes even debate the ideas proposed by its members.…

As a marketer, I’m continuously looking at our marketing / sales funnel to get a better understanding of how effective every step of the process is in our funnel and identifying the areas in our marketing plan that could be improved. We measure everything from how many visit our external content streams (blog articles, press releases, Google, etc.)to how many times this content leads to hits on our website to how effective our website is in getting users to sign up for a live…

As an Entrepreneur it took me a number of years of observing and operating within the "People Sector" before I began to recognize the unique skills necessary for people to be successful and content within different-sized companies. While it's likely won't come as a surprise, I found that people from BIG companies rarely succeed in SMALL ones and vice versa.…

There is a lot of great writing out there covering the job board and online recruiting industries – in fact, it’s easy to overlook good material. So I’ve rounded up some of…