The summer sizzle is in full effect. Are you feeling the heat about you recruitment marketing strategy?  This is not the time to take a vacation from recruiting or implementing a social recruitment strategy.  Job seekers are getting savvier about their…

Lately, there has been tons of discussion around the use of social media in recruiting. While there are some companies that recognize the value of these new tools to achieve their recruiting goals, others argue that until Social Recruiting is more proven it should simply be added onto existing activities. While I’m in agreement that an organization should never jump into something without a…

You’ve heard a lot about recruiting on every different social platform - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. The list goes on. But are some of these networks better for recruiting in specific industries, or for particular positions?



Pinterest: We’ve discussed recruiting on Pinterest in some of our previous blog posts. Some people believe that recruiting on…

It is more obvious than ever that recruiting teams have to diversify their recruitment marketing efforts. Job seekers are getting savvier about their search and you have to make sure that your organization is found when they are looking online.

The smart money is moving to digital recruiting through targeted advertising and social…

By iCIMS Blogger Karen Bucks

What is Recruitment Marketing?



According to good old ERE:



Recruitment marketing used to mean writing job ads and placing them in newspapers. Today, it covers a wide…

Last Friday the Social Recruitment Monitor (www.socialrecruitmentmonitor.com) has been launched by Maximum (www.mxmm.com). It is the world's first online measurement tool that provides actual weekly ‘popularity’, ‘activity’ and ‘interaction’ insights in social recruitment activities by global employers.

With this monitor it will be possible to answer…

A Social Recruiting Strategies Conference recap is given by Autumn McReynolds. Listen in to what she learned. The least of which, when it comes to social recruiting, content is not king. Conversation is.

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It is more obvious than ever that recruiting teams have to…

Whether you are a job seeker or a recruiter, you may have questions about the effectiveness of social media recruiting. Some people say it's overrated, and others claim it is highly effective.



Rather than simply debating the issue, this article will present some facts about the social media recruiting market.



Social media recruiting simplifies the process of…

 In two previous post I discussed whether LinkedIn will Replace Monster & Careerbuilderand shared 5 Ways Staffing Professionals Can Leverage…

How does YouTube fit into a world in which every individual attempts to brand themselves and their organizations? How can we make ourselves known? How can companies show job candidates why they should work for that organization? Social recruitment is a way for you to do all of this. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are great places to do this, but what about YouTube?

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What do the money managers on Wall Street know about the job boards that HR and Recruiting executives don't know?  The folks on Wall Street have questions about the long term growth and viability of the job board business.  The stock price after a strong quarter is an indication of their concerns.  They do not seem concerned about the future growth prospects of innovative organizations like…

I was VERY fortunate to be interviewed by Monster.com for their "Inside HR" series. The topic was on social recruiting, so I had a couple of things to say. Tune in to find out what they were. (Or, if you have nothing better to do over the next 2 minutes.)…

Originally posted on the SmashFly Intern Blog.

Last week RecruitingBlogs.com author Jeff Dickey-Chasins posted a thought provoking article called Is Social Recruiting a symptom – or a solution. In it, he defines two ways of understanding social recruiting in a broader, systemic context: as a symptom of or reaction to insufficient communication…

A Jobvite survey out this morning says 89 percent of the respondents to its poll (most of them not Jobvite customers) said they are either already using some form of social media in their recruiting or will in the next year. They are also having success; 64 percent said they’ve actually…