You ever wonder what recruiting would look like in a perfect world?  What your recruitment strategy and process would be if you didn't have supply or demand problems in your recruitment funnel?

I have and here is what I think of when I visualize the steps of a perfect recruitment marketing process:

1. Job Opening: First and…

Stories make the world go round.  It’s stories that bring us back to your favorite TV show, stories that make you buy a product and ultimately stories that make a candidate want to work for a company.  The key with stories is making sure to craft and lead with your best ones (preferably as early as possible in your recruiting process.)

That is not to say you can’t have multiple stories that provide value to your recruiting organization.  It’s just that you need to prioritize…

Let’s face it, recruiting globally is tough!  To have success when recruiting internationally, you need an understanding of what places the best international contacts hang out.  This seems no different from recruiting in the US, however, with one major difference.  Most of these job boards and recruiting channels will differ based on the country you are looking for candidates in.

While recruiting internationally shares many similarities with what you do in recruiting already…

Earlier this week, I took a look at recruiting lessons you can learn from marketing professionals.   In today’s post, I’d like to take a look at some best practices that can be learned from your sales team to help you improve your recruitment marketing strategy.

As I said…

There is no doubt that recruiting is becoming a more strategic function within the corporate world.  Companies are continually looking to improve their recruiting strategy to help them bring in more talented people in a more efficient way.  With this need for better recruiting strategy they are looking for their recruiting organizations to evolve and become more strategic.

When we look at the continued evolution of the recruiting function, we continually compare it to sales,…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we'll be talking about company culture, Talent communities, Career Sites, the changing labor market and building stronger Twitter connections.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order),…

Recruiting the right talent for your organization isn’t easy.  But thousands of recruiters and companies every day are able to successfully find candidates that fit their organizations.That isn’t to say, however, that there are not things that can be improved in their recruitment marketing strategy.

Filling the current open job position is the immediate goal for your organization but the…

Earlier this week, Dr. John Sullivan wrote an article "RIP - Announcing the Death of the Corporate Careers Website".   In this piece, he wrote a piece on why Corporate Career sites are ineffective and may not be worth putting the time and money into with the wealth of social media and…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about mining your ATS & CRM, proactive recruiting, transitioning from your current job, finding the perfect candidate and Facebook users going mobile.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no…

When implementing and executing your recruitment marketing strategy it is extremely important to measure and analyze the performance of all your initiatives.  From job boards to social networks to sourcing, you need to know what initiatives are driving positive recruiting performance for your organization.

The question is how do you determine success and what…

Recruiting organizations are realizing the importance of creating and most importantly building their own Talent Networks.  These Talent Networks can provide a free and important source of qualified candidates to help these organizations fill their open job positions.

Therefore, one of the biggest trends in the recruitment technology space is the rise of Talent Network and…