The 14th annual HR Technology Conference begins in less than a week and we are getting prepared for all the HR & recruitment marketing goodness that will be happening in the wonderful land of Vegas!  There is so much to do but we can’t help but get excited for this year’s event for a few great reasons:

1) To See Other Awesome Technologies - We are technology company at our core and we are really…

As I was looking at the Twitter stream last week, I came across this tweet:

"Most important recruiting analytic is hardest to Identify: source of hire"

I found this tweet interesting for a few reasons.

First, I think we all understand that this is a huge pain point for many organizations.  Recruiting organizations are still having a hard time to accurately tracking source to hire with their ATS and other…

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 hard to fill jobs, great places to work, average organizations, a really cool resume, most epic tweets and a…

No matter if you are receiving too many applicants or receiving too few, there is always value in looking on how you can maximize the performance of your recruitment marketing campaigns.

Whether it’s increasing your ability to collect recruiting contacts through opt-in or creating a better recruitment marketing mix of recruiting channels, there are plenty of opportunities to set up processes…

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 selling your company, employee recognition, personality tests, Google + and companies hiring unemployed workers.

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

You receive a new job requisition.  You post the job to numerous channels, sort through candidate resumes that come into your ATS, set up interviews and hopefully find a candidate that you hire.  Rinse and repeat.

With new job requisitions coming up every day and some that drag on without finding the right candidate, it can be easy to lose yourself in the day to day and focus less on the big picture.  It’s what I like to refer as “recruiting with blinders…

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 Macho Man Randy Savage, how to get a job through engagement, new listening movement, writing great copy and college football uniforms.

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

Building your Talent Network isn’t just about getting as many recruiting contacts into your database as possible.  The focus instead needs to be in getting as many interested AND qualified candidates as possible into your Talent Network.   Cause let’s face it, your Talent Network is only as valuable as the candidates in it.

So where do you start?  While I’ve gone over ways to…

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 real recruiters, Twitter experiments, Sodexo, counter offers, recruiting the best talent and HR Vendor demo tips.

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

Building your Talent Network isn’t just about getting as many recruiting contacts into your database as possible.  Instead it needs to be in getting as many interested AND qualified candidates as possible into your Talent Network.   But to do that you first need to quickly fill your Talent Network with candidates that you can qualify.  This is where the Talent Network building process begins.

Let’s take a look at how you…

As recruiting becomes more and more competitive across industries, it's becoming more important than ever to begin capturing qualified candidates and building your Talent Network.  Having your own Talent Network can help your organization improve your recruiting results and provides the following potential benefits:

• Fill positions faster: Once you have a Talent Network in place, you should be able to fill some of your positions utilizing these candidates.  Once…

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 Employee Recognition, Interview Questions, Affecting Change, RFP’s and Recruitment SEO.

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

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I’ve recently talked about building your Talent Network and the value that it can provide as a inexpensive recruiting channel that can produce results for your recruiting marketing organization.  In this blog post, I would like to talk about a similar inexpensive…

I talk with a good number of recruiting organizations about their recruiting goals and on several occasions I’ve asked the question “what are your main goals for a recruiting campaign?”.  The answer is almost always straightforward: “to make a quality hire.”

You can’t argue with that.  If getting quality people into your organization is not a priority, then you have more problems in your organization than just recruiting.  But when you are looking at the main…

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 Employee Referral Programs, myths about social media, the Wow Factor, 5 mistakes made on Twitter, Failure that instructs and how to be more creative.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in…

A simple question that is not so easily answered!  However, if you can answer this question and focus your recruitment marketing efforts on the channels and places on the web that bring in your best candidates, your recruiting organization can yield great success.  The thing is there is no secret formula for what channels will work best for a specific organization as every recruiting strategy will have…

For any recruiting organization to be successful it is important to know what recruiting activities are driving performance in bringing in the most qualified candidates and hires. To know this information, you need to set up a way to collect metrics and analytics in your recruiting process and most importantly a way to easily display this recruitment marketing data so you can make quick informed decisions on ways to improve your recruiting strategy.



But what data and metrics…

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 Recruitment 4.0, LinkedIn, Value of Recruiting Sources, Employee Engagement and recruiters to follow on Twitter.

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Every job distribution campaign you run is a great opportunity not only to make a hire but to build your Talent Network so you can make more hires (more quickly) in the future.

However, having a large Talent Network is not the goal unto itself.  It’s having a Talent Network that you are able to leverage and utilize your Talent Network to hire future employees that…

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 NPR’s social recruiting strategy, employer branding, HR Technology, passive candidates and Android.

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

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