Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about McDonald’s Hiring Day, Passive vs. Active candidates, referrals, Facebook Metrics and adopting recruitment technology.

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

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By building your own Talent Network, you provide your recruiting organization with a new and most importantly free recruiting channel that you can use to find the best candidates for future open positions. Building your Talent Network, however, is not just about throwing candidate information in a database but it is about improving your overall candidate sourcing and recruiting channels (to increase the number of qualified candidates in your Talent Network) and making sure these candidate…

Within every recruiting process you have specific moments in your recruiting process where candidates fall off.  They may fall off for a variety of reasons: they may be unqualified for the position, be uninterested in the position, the apply process could be too long or broken, they may drop off to return later and a number of other reasons.

It’s important for recruiting organizations to track and identify at what stage in the recruitment process these candidates are dropping…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting, mobile recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about job titles, social recruiting strategy risks, 8 killer recruitment strategies, new features on LinkedIn and important HR metrics.

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

I was checking out the SHRM Staffing conference Twitter feed the other day and an interesting question was brought up by Gerry Crispin:

When does a candidate become a candidate?

This is a great question and it got me thinking about a question that is just as pertinent to recruiting organizations:

When does candidate experience begin?

There seem to be a…

One of the hardest things to deal with when you are evaluating marketing and recruiting channels is working through your perceived value vs. the actual performance that they provide.

You have great relationships with your vendor contacts and they bend over backwards to make you happy until you are satisfied with the value their solution provides.  They say all the right things and prove why their solution will work for your business with plenty of case study…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting, mobile recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about social media impact on referrals, recruitment fundamentals, customer buying habits of Talent…

A few years ago, I worked with a company that started an initiative that was called Customer Touchpoints.  This initiative was designed to track and ultimately enhance every interaction that an end customer had with our brand, products, employees and company as a whole.  With the thought being that enhancing these interactions would make for happier customers that lead to a better bottom line.  This is nothing new.  Companies, in particular marketing organizations, have been trying to better…

Recruiting metrics are integral to bringing in top talent to an organization and every successful recruiting strategy has a successful reporting solution that is underneath it.  Through this reporting, the organization is able to set goals and measure the success of every one of their recruiting initiatives.

Most importantly, a successful recruiting organization will collect and track important…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting, mobile recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about job advertisements, HR 2.0, failing forward, recruiting assumptions, Monster’s Employment Index…

So we’ve all seen this story before.  You posted your new job to your recruiting channels this morning and when you take a look at your ATS the next day you see a discouraging sight: NO applicants.  You wonder what’s wrong with your recruiting funnel and instantly take a look at your recruiting metrics to identify the potential bottleneck.  Starting at the beginning of the…

For any recruitment technology, there comes a point when they need to decide how they are going to expand and innovate their platform.  Do they build in-house or do they look for partnerships with white label technology providers?

There are positives and negatives of both strategies, however, let’s take a look specifically at white label technologies and the value it provides to technology solutions.  White Label technology providers create and innovate solutions that are…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about Charlie Sheen’s social recruiting efforts, traits that make a great recruiter, searching LinkedIn, setting project priorities and this year’s ERE Expo.

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

I think we can all agree that collecting recruiting metrics in your recruitment process is important!  Not only does it help you understand what's working and what's not in your recruitment funnel but it enables you to make actionable decisions on your recruitment marketing mix and strategy.

The key, however, is creating a dashboard of sorts within your recruitment process that enables you to view…

Building your own successful Talent Network can be a long and hard journey.  However, through duel purpose job ads, resume sourcing, recruiting / networking events, active web sourcing and mobile recruiting you can quickly and effectively build your own Talent Network.  The question, however, is how do you make sure that all the contacts you source are as fresh and usable a year from…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we'll be talking about Recruiters changing tactics, source of hire, Google's quest for a better boss, Facebook demographics and social media tips.

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

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I was lucky enough to attend this Tuesday’s #TChat (which you should attend if you are on Twitter) and there was a great conversation on “Best Practices Evaluating, Purchasing & Implementing HR/Recruiting Tech & Software”.  Long title, but a pretty interesting conversation between HR / Recruiting professionals with a few vendor opinions mixed in.  I encourage you to read the recap on the…

The NCAA tournament is gloriously upon us and like every year there are teams that watched their team’s bubble burst on Selection Sunday (unfortunately including my alma-mater Boston College).  While their resumes were all good enough to make the tournament (and some think better than some teams that made it), the selection committee had to turn them away as they could ONLY select 68 teams.  Now the bubble bursting teams search for the next opportunity and move on to play the NIT as a…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about what job seekers want, pulling teeth with change, Google & employer branding, how to position your employer brand and making your employer brand about actions.

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

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This post is really simple.  The happier your employees are and the more they enjoy what they are doing, the your recruiting can and will be.  You can keep employees happy in a variety of ways including:

Competitive Salaries - Employees like to be paid what they are worth and if you keep your salaries competitive with other companies in your industry it will definitely help keep them happy.

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