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Recruiting and Social Media

On the Radar: Monday, November 19th, 2007

Misha Cornes writes on Organic's blog:

This week Shane Ginsberg and I spoke at Organic's HR offsite in beautiful Sonoma County. The interactive industry is once again experiencing a major hiring crunch, and we talked about ways to use social media to reach great…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 19, 2007 at 7:30am — No Comments

TW3...Week ending November 16th, 2007

Here is this week's round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives posted on Recruiting.com...

...and an archived digest of "That was the week that was..."

Week ending… Continue

Added by Amitai Givertz on November 18, 2007 at 9:10pm — No Comments

10 Minute Mail

On the Radar: Friday, November 16th, 2007

It is what it says it is - an email address that's good for 10 minutes!

Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don't want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists.…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 16, 2007 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Seeking Input On Social Media Equation

This was originally proposed as an equation for social media on our blog post, Revisiting Metrics: Social Media Equation to demonstrate that metrics like links and traffic belong under reach not outcomes. However, it may apply to communication measures as well.

Basic Theory:

Intent vs. Outcome = Return On Investment (I/O = ROI)

Supporting Equations:

Intent x… Continue

Added by Rich on November 16, 2007 at 6:53pm — No Comments

THE REAL, REAL STORY OF THE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A RECRUITER.

Someone sent me an funny email that is going around the internet, AAADD Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. (hat tip to the unknown author for the idea) I decided to rip off the idea and write something to fit in our recruitingworld.…

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Added by Recruitnik on November 16, 2007 at 9:02am — No Comments

Be careful what you say.....and send a confirming email

Misinterpretation in communications is nothing new and lets be frank it will continue in perpetuity, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get better at avoiding it.

Recently I had an issue with a client company involving two hiring managers and the HR manager. They had two positions that my candidate might fit (both managers thought from my phone presentation that he may not be completely on target), and so I presented him to both managers, and of course, copied HR on…

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Added by bill martineau on November 15, 2007 at 2:42pm — No Comments

A new twist: peer-to-peer job search community

On the Radar: Thursday, November 15th, 2007

TugLink.com launches with this to say about why:

TugLink.com is an online peer-to-peer job search community where members help each other land interviews for desired jobs. The name TugLink is meant to imply that company insiders help candidates get “linked” with jobs they desire by giving them a “tug”,…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 15, 2007 at 2:39pm — No Comments

Recruiting Roadshow In Dallas

Here is Amitai Givertz's way of inviting you all to the Recruiting Roadshow in Dallas Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

8:30AM - 1:30PM

If you are in Dallas, you should register. The last one was in Atlanta and it was great.…

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Added by Slouch on November 14, 2007 at 8:45pm — No Comments

Why Strategy Is The Key To Social Media

Understanding social media will not come from social media as much as it will from books like Strategy And The Fat Smoker, which I reviewed today. Why is that?

Because link love and traffic spiking tend to be the modern equivalent of super sales, distress advertising, and forced productivity. Or, for recruiters, I suppose it is the difference between filling a job opening and developing… Continue

Added by Rich on November 14, 2007 at 2:32pm — No Comments

BlogRush: Gold in them thar widgets

On the Radar: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

According to BlogRush:

BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need: More Readers For Their Blog.

By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 14, 2007 at 7:39am — No Comments

Uncommon Sourcing Techniques That Uncover High Value Talent

On the Radar: Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Courtsesy of LinkedIn and Recruiting Trends:

If you ever wanted to find out from the pros how to uncover hard to find candidates, you couldn't assemble a better team than this:

Chris Murdock, Executive Sourcer,…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 13, 2007 at 6:10pm — No Comments

Dispelling the myths

Ray Schreyer is an online recruiting pioneer and was one of the main players in the creation of DirectEmployers Association back in 2001. Today, Ray is responsible for the creation, innovation and management of…

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Added by Chad Sowash on November 13, 2007 at 5:21pm — No Comments

The Killer Application For The Mobile Job Seeker

Spurred on the hype surrounding the iphone’s UK launch over the weekend, we asked ourselves the question “what would be the one tool or ‘killer application’ that would revolutionise life for the mobile job seeker”. As it turns out, the answer is not as obvious as you might think....…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 13, 2007 at 5:00pm — No Comments

60 Minutes piece on the comming Millenials in the workforce

60 Minutes ran an interesting piece on Millennials entering the workforce and how corporate American may be ill prepared.

The video is about 13 minutes long and very interesting.

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3486473n&channel=/sections/60minutes/videoplayer3415.shtml

Added by Charles Bretz on November 13, 2007 at 8:55am — No Comments

Facebook Employer Brand Ads: Rush University Medical Center

I logged into Facebook today only to see an employer brand ad front and center in my news feed. I must say that I was intrigued, yet mostly disappointed in the experience. The item showed up on my…

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Added by Kris Rzepkowski on November 12, 2007 at 6:13pm — No Comments

Podcast 33: Appointing The Exec

The latest born internet recruiting podcast is available.

We've quite a selection of stories for you this week, including the Financial Times acquires Exec-Appointments, Broadbean sets European…

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Added by Julian Stopps on November 12, 2007 at 2:41pm — No Comments

How to Use Google to Find a Job

Think like a job searcher and read this article on how to effectively use Google for a career search.

Added by Willy Franzen on November 12, 2007 at 11:54am — No Comments

Thank God, another job search engine [and white paper of course!]

On the Radar: Monday, November 12th, 2007

From our friends at JobDig, LinkUp:

Our Goal - To Build The Best Job Site On The Web

LinkUp is a leading job search engine that exposes the hidden job market. We conveniently connect you with real jobs from real…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 12, 2007 at 7:30am — No Comments

TW3...Week ending November 9th, 2007

I' ve added Jim Stroud's Multimedia to the mix in the weekly round-up from the recruiting industry’s group blogs, portals and individual archives posted on Recruiting.com...

...and now archived of the weekly digest "That was the week that was..."…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 10, 2007 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Tapping qualified candidates an old-fashioned way, going to the well

On the Radar: Friday, November 9th, 2007

HRLive regularly updates who is laying off workers and where its happening. The searchable database lets you customoze the search and gives you an estimate of the number of people affected.

Hardly, new -- HRLive been around for years -- the tool from JWT is worth revisiting if you want the most active of active candidates to keep you…

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Added by Amitai Givertz on November 9, 2007 at 7:35pm — No Comments