So you are hiring for a position.  You’ve interviewed 5-6 candidates in the final interview process and made an offer to the best candidate.  And the best part, they accepted.

So the recruitment marketing campaign is over and was a smashing success, right?  Yes and no.

You recruited and hired the candidate you wanted (which is a success in itself), however, the question is what happened to the other 4-5…

Here is our last recruitment marketing articles feature of 2010 in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about how using social media wrong can be a good thing, making the most of an opportunity, remaining proactive, survey on employment in cities and making your top candidates feel wanted.

Here are the articles our that interested us this…

Being on the technology side, I know how hard it is to talk to differentiate from one solution to the next when it comes to recruitment marketing technology.  When purchasing a Recruiting CRM, it’s that much harder as you not only have vendors with Traditional Sales Based CRM’s but also companies that focus solely on CRM’s for recruiting.

When deciding between solutions, take a moment to evaluate your current situation.  Ask your team why you need a CRM and what problems you hope to…

One statement I've heard a lot from recruiters is that they "receive too many resumes" and are so inundated with candidates that it just bogs their whole recruiting process down.  This is a problem but a good one to have (too many candidates is much better than too few).

But with any problem, the question is how can we solve it.  How can you create steps in your recruiting process to easily filter and pare down the candidates you receive into a nice neat pile of qualified…

Here is our last recruitment marketing articles feature of 2010 in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing. This week we’ll be talking about creating your social media voice, using economic data in your recruiting strategy, talking about the competition, employment branding and curation.

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

I think that we can all agree that the deepest motivation of a job seeker is to just get a job with a salary that comes with it.  But I think that we’d be amiss if we didn’t take a deeper look into the other motivations that job seekers have when choosing (because the best candidates choose) a position.

Most importantly, to be effective in bringing in the right top talent, you need to know what your target candidates motivations are for choosing an company to work for.  To do…

It’s now 2011 and with the new year you also get a clean slate.  It’s time to start planning for 2011 and making decisions that will help shape your year.  When starting to make these decisions, however, it is important to leave 2010 and past decisions behind.  Take stock in the situation that currently exists in your recruitment marketing strategy and make decisions based on the present day.

One of the biggest problems I…

Here is our last recruitment marketing articles feature of 2010 in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing.  This week we’ll be talking about recruiting myths, candidate experience, social media policies, respect and measuring social media.

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

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With the year quickly coming to an end and budgets currently being prepared for next year, people and organizations are looking more and more towards 2011.  While this is commonplace and needs to be done, I strongly encourage you to also reflect on 2010 while you are looking into the future as sometimes the best way to plan for the future is to look at the past.

The question is what should you reflect on in your 2010 recruiting strategy:…

With the year quickly coming to a close, we wanted to take a look back at our blog and share our most popular blog posts from the SmashFly blog over the last year.  After factoring our blog views and re-tweets, here are our best recruitment marketing articles from 2010:

Indeed vs.…

If your organization is like many, the weeks around Christmas and New Years make your office look like a ghost town.  With most of your colleagues (rightly) taking time off during the Holiday season, there’s little that can be done in the office and you need something to do instead outside of your Holiday parties.

So here’s what I propose: make a Christmas wish list!  No, not a list of things you should get for your family & relatives (you should have already shopped for those)…

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 a new category in recruiting technology, ways to prevent bad hires in 2011, workforce flexibility, 2011 hiring predictions, treating employees well, 20 useful Twitter blog posts and why social media is now a mass medium.

Here are the articles our that interested us this…

Yesterday, I was part of a cool event set up by TalentCulture called #TChat. #TChat is a Twitter conversation that happens every Tuesday at 8 EST on various topics on attracting and retaining talent. To join, all you have to do is use the Twitter hashtag #TChat and start contributing.

Last night’s conversation focused on multiple aspects of the…

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 the value of words in recruiting, why ROI stinks to measure social recruiting, insights on recruitment for 2011, recruiting continuing beyond hiring and some Twitter basics.

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

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 if recruiting top talent is your #1 priority, Lessons from Ben & Jerry’s, Fortune 500 social media insights, economic recovery on the horizon and listening to your employees.

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

The other day I wrote about some common reasons on Why Social Recruiting Fails but today I’m going to focus one I didn’t specifically mention that I think is important which is just Never getting started. For some, starting to use social media can seem like this insurmountable hump that they feel they can never get over and therefore they hesitate to even get started.

The…

Social Recruiting has been a really hot topic in recruiting over the past year with a variety of opinions on either side of the fence in terms of it being a viable recruiting strategy going forward or a fad that will die out in the next few years. I for one, think that social recruiting or the act of utilizing social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to engage and recruit qualified candidates can be an important part of your overall…

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 thinking strategically, social recruiting, culture and branding, using social to screen a candidate, Indeed and the largest recruiting groups on LinkedIn.

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