A recruiter posts a job and wonders, "Are these all the qualified candidates?" On the other side, a job seeker runs a job search and thinks, "Are these all the available jobs?" How does anyone know?

Analyzing Job Postings Against Relevant Searches

One way to see how well recruiters and job seekers find each other is to compare a set of job postings against relevant searches that should return those job postings. I'll evaluate Indeed because they are the…

On the 8th March, International Women’s Day celebrated the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Even though only 30% of women make up the IT workforce (as highlighted in a recent report from the House of Lords), there are many achievements that women are making within the industry. International Women’s Day gives us…

New is always better than old. Don't believe me? Take an inventory of articles published in the last 12 months that focus on something new that will 'revolutionize' recruiting and leave all…

Let’s face it. As a recruiter, you’re out there on the front lines, rolling up your sleeves to source, screen and slate the top talent on the market. You’re able to do whatever it takes to find that always elusive purple squirrel, that needle in the proverbial passive haystack, and, against all odds, turn them into interested, engaged applicants.

Too bad you can’t get…

I’ll never forget how I was picked to be the social media expert at my first company. It was 2008 and I was working at a startup called VisualCV.com. I was hired as part of the sales team then moved to marketing when we realized we did in fact need a marketing team. Oh, startups.

Anyway, I was sitting at my desk when our lead investor and co-founder popped his head…

Sounds as if another ubiquitous #CultureChat has taken place at SXSW replete with recycled lines about what culture is to the experts. Could they all be wrong?

While it's…

Automation. Branding. Target. Messaging. Nurturing. Social.

Do all these words sound familiar? If you’re a recruiter they probably do, but until pretty recently, these words were more familiar to the folks over in your marketing department. In fact, over the last few years, recruiters have increasingly been encouraged to take up the…

Since there are so many ways that as recruiters we're not getting an appropriate bang-for-the-buck from our LinkedIn investments (and more importantly, in any way aligned to the heights of their marketing bluster), I'm going to focus this week on the many ways that we are spammed via the LinkedIn messaging systems.

So to my frenemies in Trust & Safety, this blog's…

Whether you’re in the Matt Charney camp, or the camp occupied by the likes of Irina Shamaeva and Glen Cathey,  LinkedIn is one site where you must use Boolean search to get the best results.

LinkedIn is Bi-otch when it comes to snagging free information, but here is a tip that…

SlideBoom is a site where you can store you presentations and make them available to anyone. This

includes Resumes.  SlideBoom is known in the community but 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…

I love LinkedIn and use it every day. LinkedIn has changed our profession, revolutionized sourcing and recruiting, and continues to be the #1 go-to site for the majority of recruiters, with no competition in sight. I am glad to share creative LinkedIn Sourcing techniques with my colleagues in blog posts, discussions, webinars, and as part of the Sourcing Certification Program..

Lately, I've been running into some LinkedIn functionality that seems temporarily broken.…

The job market is beginning to resemble a field of round holes littered with square pegs. While 11 million Americans are looking for jobs, 4 million jobs are looking for workers. The reason those two numbers don’t meet each…

By Eric Foutch

I recently read this awesome post on LinkedIn that said Snapchat is the new Facebook. At first, I laughed thinking I was going to argue with pretty much the entire article, and then I read it.

The Author, …

Social media has recently continued to evolve at a rapid pace, giving rise to new and improved methods and techniques for recruiting. To cater to these developments several updates have been made to various social media sites including browser extensions that now assist and enhance a recruiter’s experience. Thus modern recruiters and sourcers are now required to have a…

If you are a recruiter and you are not familiar with Indeed's deduplication process, it could make it difficult for job seekers to find your job postings and undermine your recruitment efforts. All too often, Indeed marks job postings as duplicates when the jobs are truly distinct. Fortunately in some situations, you can use better job titles to make sure your jobs are not hidden.

The purpose of deduplication is to…

One of the first things new consultants are taught during most recruitment training is ‘candidate control’ – i.e. how to make sure your candidate stays in communication with you, attends your interviews, and accepts the offer you get them. Old school recruitment trainers will tell you that ‘you should never present an offer to a candidate unless you know they are going to accept.’ This concept isn’t as mechanical as…

When it comes to recruitment articles, there’s a great deal of emphasis on what the candidate should avoid saying. Not much content at all, however, can be found on phrases that recruiters should avoid uttering.

Since anyone who works in recruitment knows (alas!) that we’re only human and therefore just as capable of saying something silly as candidates, we’ve…

Being a recruiter means dealing with myriad of personalities.

Whether you have worked in the recruiting business for years or decades or you’re just getting your feet wet these days, you undoubtedly will find that some applicants are easy to work with, others on the other hand, not so easy.

With that in mind, keep in mind that most applicants truly just want to…

Patty McCord, Netflix’s former Chief Talent Officer, has a very different take on HR. Credit: meme.com

Netflix’s philosophy on human…

Some time ago I started wandering what the most frequent resume mistakes are. I decided to ask my friend Jana Rookard, who has been an HR manager for ten years and now works at Assignment Jedii – assignment help service. She said that she has looked through more than 10 000 resumes in her career. Some of them are…