Despite being one of the easiest to use and most engaging social media tools, many companies seem focused on gaining the least amount of value from Twitter. So, what can you do to better utilize this amazing tool for social recruiting?



Create Goodwill

Remember that hard to value intangible asset on your balance sheet that is not directly attributable to assets or liabilities, but can increase the purchase price of your company in acquisition….goodwill. In…

The Social Sofa…

By Michael Brandt - BrightMove Recruiting Software

This is part 3 in a series of articles I am writing about selecting recruiting software. My goal is to give companies and staffing agencies the insight into the selection process the best way to navigate your way to a good selection. For this article, we are going to dive into the RFP process and why it may or may not be important for you to do an RFP.

What's an…

A Vision, A Revelation!!!!…

The minimum wage recently increased to $10.25/hour as of March 31^st, 2010 in order to aid low income families within rising costs to Canadian living.

Looking in the past 15 years,…

I'm getting ready for truUSA in Madison WI in just over a week. Really looking forward to this, if it is anything like truLondon in Feb it will be a fantastic event.

At truLondon I ran an impromptu track to create a few geniuses. We had ten people take part and all were transformed within the allotted 30 minutes.

The process is actually quite simple. Firstly we ran a simple test of Intelligence, Dee Allen was the winner and borderline genius before we even started. After this…

Pre Constructed Boolean Search Strings Part 3!!!…

Lately the media is suggesting an improved economy and that companies are hiring. It is hard to cross the street without a self proclaimed career expert giving advice. Google, CNN, and Yahoo!

constantly feature articles regarding job searching and yet many

candidates find that they are sending out countless resumes and not

getting…

So many times I’ve heard on the street complaints from companies about headhunters trying to steal their employees…and everytime I laugh a little. Yes, partly because I am a headhunter, but my thoughts go deeper than that. It kind of reminds me of a relationship where one partner is always scared of the other straying away into someone else’s arms. What can we do to stop this from…

Yesterday we spent quite a bit of time related to setting up your recruitment marketing metrics to determine your overall strategy. Today we are going to focus on drilling down into those metrics to create a Diversity recruitment strategy. This article

will address preparing for your Diversity strategy, building and measuring…

When I first decided to join Precision Recruiting Services, I was introduced to LinkedIn. I know; had I been hiding under a rock or something? How is it possible that I hadn’t heard of this business social media tool before? Well, that is a whole other story. For now, let’s just accept the fact that LinkedIn was new to…

On opening day, Minnesota Twins center-fielder Denard Span struck out three times in five at bats (in an 0-5 effort). If that is the only time you ever see him play, you might draw the conclusion that “Span can’t hit the curve ball” or “Span can’t hit against right-handed pitching”. Based solely on the first game of the 2010 season, you might write him off as a terrible hitter with no future in the big leagues. Only if you either a) continue to watch him over the course of the…

For a long time, companies have been able to get away with poor treatment of prospective candidates. From enduring long response times or worse yet, never hearing anything at all; companies have undervalued creating a positive candidate experience for far too long. While there might be a variety of very compelling reasons why, the fact of the matter is that the increasingly social nature of the web will make the practice of continuing to treat candidates poorly a bad…

When I was younger I had a friend ask me what I felt his faults were. I thought to myself “what an awkward question” and asked him why he had asked me that. He responded “how can I be a better person when I don’t know or can fix my faults”. That conversation has stuck in my head for over 15 years and most recently has been useful in changing my mind on personal…

Can your organization attract a $250k+ recruiter with no non-compete and a portable book of business to your firm? What if they currently get to keep “100%” of the placement revenue - do you have a model and programs that can cause that person to potentially give up ½ or even more? If you cannot attract those type of producers, what’s to stop those who …