Even with the proliferation of social networks, search engines and SaaS solutions available to recruiters today, referrals continue to represent the most effective source of hire for employers, proof that sometimes high touch indeed trumps high tech.

Most employee referral programs, whether formal or informal, continue to emphasize personalization over automation,…

Last week, HireVue announced its acquisition of Reschedge, the self-proclaimed “world’s most advanced interviewing scheduling software.”

The brainchild of MIT grad and Google alum Jon…

Consider this a bonus prediction, but keyword laden lead paragraphs in content marketing will continue to be the only original content most B2B marketers write in 2014.  Or do you think rhethorical questions to drive engagement constitutes original content?

Either way, here's what…

Featured Guest Post by Gerry Crispin

The hiring process has no minimum acceptable (or unacceptable) standard of practice. Anything goes and many recruiters prefer it that way. Perhaps intuitively we know that people who think of themselves as recruiters (or enjoy being seen as successful recruiters by others), are highly individualistic and, if occasionally…

If there’s one recruiting trend you can count on in 2014, its that LinkedIn will continue its dominance – and ubiquity – within the talent acquisition conversation. With over 90% of recruiters reporting to using the “professional network” for sourcing and screening candidates in 2013, LinkedIn enjoys a market penetration few competitors can match, as well as the unique…

Every year in the US alone employers spend $72 billion — that’s billion, with a B — on recruiting services, staff and technology. For some perspective: $70 billion will buy every franchise in the NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA with some…

My immersion into the world of recruiting and HR started in sourcing, and the ability to find people and information on the internet has continued to be one of the most valuable professional skills I possess, even if I'm years removed from actually filling reqs.  The thing about it is, it's never been actually all that hard - even before the…

Even if you don’t know what an API actually is chances are pretty good you’re utilizing them on a daily basis.  And if you’re in recruiting, there’s almost a 100% chance that you’re using LinkedIn’s API – whether through your applicant tracking system, a point solution or even to share social media updates or automatically post content like job descriptions on your news feed.

These…

This year’s top five blog posts (at least, according to Google Analytics) not only generated the most traffic, but also represents something of a microcosm for RecruitingBlogs. 

Each of these posts was bylined by a working HR or recruiting professional with a unique perspective - and voice – as a…

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) were designed to track requisitions and candidates as a system of record, but when it comes to actually engaging with candidates, most of these systems fail to capture the individual interactions and personalized engagement between recruiters and candidates, particularly when it comes to electronic communications like e-mail.  While…

According to HRMarketer’s Insight software, over 19,000 articles have been posted on HR and the holidays over the past three months, which is about 18,995 more than are probably necessary. 

Here on RecruitingBlogs, we've had a bevy of holiday themed posts, as 'tis the season for…

Recruiters spend a lot of time looking at career sites and job descriptions – which might explain why most have relatively short tenures.  When your job is job search, exposure to end product – particularly after a difficult candidate conversation or hiring manager meeting – has a way of making the grass look a little greener.

Most recruiting jobs are ultimately…

You’ve probably spent the last month or so being bombarded by holiday inspired music and content marketing – two of the most cliche, trite and grating genres ever invented.  

That’s why, in the spirit of the season, we’re making spirits bright by combining the two into a single, saccharine and suspect holiday songbook for recruiters.  

We hate us for publishing…

Nothing resonates with candidates quite like real photos of real employees at work, particularly if they aren’t actually working.  You can’t accurately convey your culture with everyone back in their cubicles or sitting through a meeting to plan more meetings, or really any part of work that looks like work at all, really.

So, make sure to take advantage of…

Nimble is a “social CRM” which combines pretty much everything you need for task and contact management into a single, simple and intuitive solution ideal for candidate relationship management - and more. Nimble exemplifies the growing divide between consumer and human resources technology. It’s extremely intuitive in both…

You might not have heard of fastest growing online US job destination, but as Eric Owski, VP of Corporate Strategy at Bright freely admits that even with 7.5 million unique visitors a month, Bright.com…

Candidate experience is another one of those terms recruiters just can’t seem to shut up about. But unlike the blizzard of buzzwords mostly designed to sell consulting services and content marketing, it’s one that, if anything, we should all be talking about more. The reason is, unlike, say, employer branding, candidate experience is actually a concept that has real impact…

It’s the holidays, which means it’s that special time when B2B marketers start pushing lazy, self-congratulatory content (“our favorite posts of the year!”) and, even more noxious, the prediction post. You know, the kind where bloggers talk about what’s going to happen next year. Which is weird, because you'd think if bloggers could predict the future, they’d have avoided…

When I had to hire a recruiter (I've hired a few of them over the years, they know all the tricks so it's kind of hard), I'd always throw this question in there:

If you had to recruit for the same role for the rest of your career, what would that role be and why?

It's a stupid question, but I got some interesting answers. You should try it - it…

As I just might have mentioned before, I'm a little skeptical about video as a prehire selection or screening tool. Commonly called "video interviewing," that label is actually a little erroneous as the point solutions in this emerging category offer much broader services or business cases for their products than just interviews. For a really good overview of these…