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.

Special…

If you are like most recruiting organizations, you post your job advertisements to multiple recruiting channels for every one of your job ads.  Whether its job boards, social networks, email or mobile recruiting, you distribute these job ads with one goal in mind: acquiring as many qualified applicants as possible.

This is a fine goal, however with…

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 hiring overqualified employees, charlie sheen’s HR disaster, Twitter as a business tool, how to write a great job requisition, questions to ask before accepting a job offer and a decrease in unemployment claims for February.

Here are the articles our that interested us…

When building out a comprehensive recruitment marketing strategy, you need to decide 3 important aspects among others.  First, you need to decide the recruiting channels you will use from job boards to social networks to mobile recruiting, Talent Network, etc.).  Second, you need to decide on the technology that will be integral to your overall…