The modern recruitment platform gives us a plenty of opportunities for efficient search among thousands of candidates and millions of profiles. Professional recruiters know that the use of recruitment platform, for example, SignalHire, makes it easier to search resumes, use databases and social…

Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos. It was the first video sharing site to support high-definition video. Vimeo was founded in November 2004 by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry…

Reading recruiting and talent acquisition content can be boring. But these 15 industry thought-leaders are changing the game. From up-and-comers to veterans, here are the HR influencers you should be following on social. 



Whitney Johnson …

The tools we now have for recruiting are incredible vs what was available just 10 and 20 years ago.  The internet, email, job boards, networks, databases, analytics, and on and on….

But good tools are of minimal value on their own.  It’s how you use the tools that matters.  That’s both a skill thing and an effort thing.  Give the right guy a good set of tools and he’ll build a great house.  Give me the same tools and you’ll have a real mess.  Recruiters have the tools to greatly…

Why Instagram? If you’re a recruiter or talent acquisition pro, this is where your prospective employees spend a lot of time. Millennials are now of working age and a recent PWC report says that by 2020, 50% of the workforce in…

Earlier this month the BBC’s LinkedIn page posed a question: What’s the most outrageous thing you’ve ever been asked in a job interview? It garnered over 1,500 comments brimming with shocking, offensive, and just plain irrelevant interview questions. From,…

In “How Google Works” by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, they devote a significant amount of time to hiring stating that hiring is the most important thing you do.

Look at any great company, or even a single branch or unit of any great company, and then imagine that business without it’s best employee.  Then imagine it without it’s best two or three employees.  The impact is incredible.  Great hiring builds great businesses. Bad hiring builds bad businesses and businesses that…

lA career in HR can be an extremely rewarding one. However, the very nature of the job ensures there will be a lot of difficult choices you must face, especially if you are an HR manager. The reason HR managers often face more difficult decisions than other managers in a company is because HR decisions influence the lives of real people, and can even ruin them. Therefore, HR professionals are often the ones to make the toughest decisions at a company, and they must…

Hustle makes the breaks called luck.  This was a favorite line of a high school coach I had and a line that always stuck with me.  This is not to say that you are just lucky if you hustle and good things happen.  It is to say that if you hustle good things happen and some people look at it as luck, but your hustle made things happen and put you in a position to succeed.

As recruiters we run our processes, make the extra call, ask for referrals, make the extra follow up, and do them…

I was prompted to write this after having a very similar conversation with a few people this week around hiring a digital marketing person to work in their business. Between each conversation there were some common issues:

• Don’t know what I don’t know > as I don’t know digital I am not sure if the people I am talking to know what they are talking…

If you are passionate about helping those who have special needs, you have a lot of options when it comes to turning that passion into a career. For instance, you may be able to work as a special education teacher or work with adults who have physical or developmental issues. Depending on your skill set, it may be possible to start your own company helping others who…

You already know how important it is to have an employee discount program. However, just having a program is not enough. For your employee discount program to have the effect you want, you need to build the right program. By designing a program that fits your business and your workforce, you can better retain employees and recruit…

Making a successful sale may prove a hard task. It depends on the appearance, knowledge, and the zeal of the sales person. Overall, the process majorly depends on the skills of the sales agent. Undoubtedly, the sales department is quite frankly the face of the company, and its performance determines the growth and profitability…

Ah, the annual visit to the doctor’s office…something we all love.  It’s an opportunity to get poked and prodded, asked questions we don’t want to answer, and suffer all manner of indignity, even though there is nothing wrong with us.  It’s no fun, yet we do it anyway (or we know we ought to) because it’s good for us.  It can find little problems before they become big problems, adjust things that need adjusting, or perhaps just give us a few reminders about things we already know we should…

Whether you choose to get involved in it or not, office politics are inevitable in a workplace. They shape the organisation and sometimes help create a unique company culture, although often for the worse. Handling rude colleagues, making allies and knowing who to speak to in order to get projects moving are vital skills. It might start with a …

Building a writing career takes a lot of effort, commitment and courage. Self-publishing provides wonderful options but it’s expanded the scope of writing to just about everyone. Thus, you’ll be dealing with a massive competition and you’ll probably want to give up at times.

Feeling more empowered in the business of writing depends on building a good routine…

As graduation rapidly approaches for many computer science students, their minds are turning away from school projects and towards which career path to pursue once their program of study is complete. If this is the case for you, now is the time to start thinking about which job titles will be available once you complete your…

Many companies are currently feeling the effects of a lack of talented IT specialists with suitable skills on the labour market and have begun to look for talented help abroad. …

Y Combinator is an American Seed Accelerator started in 2005.  Now of course that does not explain why you might want to source there, Well the site offers a lot of news and articles, as well as resources and a robust community. Now as we have learned if someone is talking about or writing about a topic they are usually well versed in it. So if they write an article…

To hire or not to hire a recruiting firm? That is the question, isn’t it? Companies with in-house HR often believe hiring an outside recruitment firm is neither worth the time nor the effort. Not only is it an extra expense, but it is also taking away from the employee who must conduct the search process to find the right recruitment firm and hire plus manage the process.

That being said, there are benefits to hiring a recruiting firm or headhunter…