Every so often on this blog I like to highlight some of the companies that we work with that are doing some interesting things in their recruiting.  I highlight these companies as they are leveraging data and Talent Networks to drive innovation in their recruitment marketing strategies in a way that I believe can help other organizations potentially improve their recruiting processes.

Here are a few examples of companies that are utilizing their internal…

When you are building your Talent Network it is important to understand what types of recruiting contacts should be part of your Network.  Recruiting contacts can include those collected in dual purpose job ads, through sourcing campaigns, applicants that enter your ATS, social recruiting followers and most importantly your current employees.  One group of recruiting contacts that is forgotten and outright dismissed by organizations is your past employees.

When employees move…

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 the evolution of recruiting, collaboration in the hiring process, mobile recruiting, employee benefits, Apply with…

Social Recruiting is the hot (relatively) new recruiting method in the recruiting space.  There are a number of companies that have had success and are doing cool things with social but there are also others that are struggling to make it a part of their recruitment marketing efforts.  This article is…

While all recruitment marketing efforts are focused on hires, it's qualified candidates that we really want or need.  And the more, the better.  I've talked before on how to measure qualified candidates in your recruitment funnel but that only works if you know what a…

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 Google +, social recruiting strategy, Twitter search, pre-turnaround recruiting and why the messenger matters.

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

Every time you open a new job position and start a job distribution campaign, you have a great opportunity to learn what works and what doesn't in terms of your recruitment messaging.  But that insight only comes if you have the right recruitment metrics capabilities in place in order to record and analyze your messaging.

Once you have your metrics in place, the key…

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 social recruiting, candidate experience, being a stealth ninja and passive candidates.

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

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Depending on the ATS you use, you most likely have a wealth of applicant data that you can use to make your recruiting strategy better.  The real questions, however, are what data is the most important and if this data is easily available and structured in a way for you to make quick and educated decisions on the state of your current recruiting initiatives.

The problem for most companies is that they have this data in several places and there's too much of it.  You have…

As I was driving into work this morning, I was listening to 98.5 The Sports Hub (by far the best sports radio station in Boston) and they were talking about last night’s All Star Game Home Run Derby.  However, instead of talking about the great performances of Adrian Gonzalez and Robinson Cano (who won), they focused on one topic: how could they make the event better!

To this one simple question, listeners and the on air personalities were able to come up with a bunch of…

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 metrics and accountability in HR, recruiting trends, being appropriately frustrated, HR Technology integration and employer branding.

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

Now this statement seems pretty self-explanatory right?  Obviously with every recruitment marketing campaign you run, you want qualified candidates above all else.  But the real question is how are you measuring which candidates are qualified and which are not.

There are a few levels of qualified candidates that should be pretty easy to track and measure:

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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 candidate experience stories, sourcing, online recruiting surveys, Monster's new BeKnown and some cool info-graphics.

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

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…