For as long as I have been in the recruitment industry we have relied on advertising jobs to attract candidates. I started using social media 6 years ago to help attract talent. I believe the evolution of social recruitment is bringing about a step change in our industry and this will mean recruiters need to change to be as productive as possible. So, are…

HR departments are lagging in technology; they have not gotten the best and latest technology. However, this trend is changing at a fast pace due to our understanding of what affects human productivity and the value of skilled employees is increasing. All of that knowledge is developing into software and technology.

The…

As you begin your startup, you are concerned about getting the idea, getting the funding & getting the customers. But at some point, you want to start thinking about getting a Human Resources specialist on board as well. It is no fun to have to use the restricted funds to someone in the "cost center" role, but making someone onboard at the right time will save you money in the long run.…

You must be looking for options on which provider are you going to have to host for your website. If that is so, you must start by looking at some factors to consider. Getting a web hosting provider is not like getting a shirt that you can just fit in, you need to consider all other factors such as comfort and style.

There are a many web hosting providers that you can find, but the very question that you need to answer is which option is better? Is it Linux or…

According to Pew Research, Millennials surpassed Generation X in the workforce as the largest group of employees. In 2015, they made up a third of the workforce. Many projections estimate this group of employees will…

I want to learn everything about certain topics. As a kid I studied vertical jump training so I could dunk.

I ruined my legs. But in a good way. My leg muscles still remember the training and I can still dunk a basketball to this day.

Cold email is one of the topics I study now. I started studying it 6 years ago.

More important than learning…

The idea that extroverts alone should lead the workforce is slowly fading away. Susan Cain’s book …

Can you imagine spending $140 billion dollars on something you aren’t happy with? ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY BILLION DOLLARS.  That’s enough money to buy each citizen of Brazil coffee every day for the entire year. You’d be a saint down there.

This is the dilemma the recruiting industry faces: $140 billion is the amount spent EVERY YEAR by…

According to some educational institutions, plagiarism is no longer their biggest problem. It is the issue of external people writing essays and other papers for students that are very troublesome for colleges and universities. It seems that today’s educators face another form of academic fraud, caused by sudden increase in a number of internet services offering prompt essay writing services. As a result,…

There has been a longstanding debate about whether a Recruiter’s LinkedIn profile should be personal or in sync with the Company’s vision/ policies they work for. A discussion encourages two perspectives leaving you with mixed responses. 

In such a scenario reaching a conclusion is difficult hence @SourcingAdda we decided to get to similar ground  based on the suggestion of the …

Moz is a SEO orientated site were SEO type people live, talk, and show their skills. MOZ is not well known in the staffing community and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool, called x-raying.

So to source within MOZ you simply…

Are you a businessman looking to build your enterprise or a blogger who wants to start a blog of his own to show the world what he is capable of? If you often wonder whether the traditional ways of gathering audience is enough or not, then the answer is a big NO. You have to build your own website, my friend! That’s the only solution.

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Inspiration can come from anywhere. A career opportunity to advance, working as part of a  well-oiled team or nailing a challenging task are perceived in different ways from employee to employee. George can value repetition as progress, while…

I have this theory that job ads reflect the "quality" of a company's culture. Here are a few examples of what I mean... 

Job ads full of typos, misspellings, grammar errors and poor formatting, such as chunks of jumbled text, look sloppy and reflect a place that doesn't value professional communication skills or care about producing audience oriented…

We're live here in Austin - halfway through our road tour of Texas. If you haven't heard about it yet, we're hitting the road this week to connect senior HR and recruiting people with our insider crew of vendors. Now, this isn't like any event we've been to in the recruiting industry. In fact, we had to partner with Brits, aka …

In the last 8 or so years we have seen a lot of disruption in the recruitment industry. The traditional advertising channels like job boards and newspapers have become increasingly under pressure and for good reason. Now the new disruptive competitors in the recruitment industry are taking their corners in what should be an interesting…

This week all my various news feeds have been full of comments about two recent events: Connectifier being acquired by LinkedIn and LinkedIn’s share price tanking.

Dealing with Connectifier first; I’ve tried using it several times, it’s not a bad piece of kit. It’s comparable in a lot of ways to 360 Social, TalentBin, Discoverly, Prophet and the like, but with a comparatively…

A lot of people don’t realize just how important effective branding is when you’re running a charity. How else can people trust you with their money?

Trust is important inany industry - but it’s especially vital if you’re running a charity. After all, if people are going to give your organization money in support of a good cause, they need to be able to trust that their contribution is actually being…

Imagine being a warrior. A skilled one. And you’ve been called to display your skills at an archery competition that you are sure you will nail!

Based on a suggestion from Andy Headworth and just before St Valentines day, I've been looking at sourcing techniques for recruiters to find love. As a result I've added to my Facebook search tool to include 'Relationship Status' and 'Interested In' searches. You can now use this to find single people who like recruiters.

I can think of no practical (or legal)…