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…

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A job requisition hits your desk and something about it feels like you’ve seen this before. The core competencies and job ad messaging both seem familiar and the job title you know you’ve positively seen before. You say to yourself, “didn’t we just fill this position last week? last month? last year?” If you a large growing company, this will happen to you more often than you care to count. But the question is how have you leveraged your recruiting process to make filling these common jobs… Continue

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!:…

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We talk a lot on this blog about the technology that exists today that can help your organization recruit more cheaply and effectively. But today I want to talk about and get your opinions on where recruiting technology is going and what pain points technology can solve for recruiters.



The big question is: where do you think innovation is needed in the recruiting space? Distribution of jobs? Social Networks? Metrics & Analytics? Identifying candidates? Something else?



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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 veterans and how we can help them, HR outsourcing, the viral candidate, storytelling in business, Google pay raises and why Twitter Auto DM’s just don’t work.

Here are the articles our that interested us this…

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Mobile is becoming more important in recruiting every passing day. With more and more cell phone users choosing SmartPhones, mobile is quickly becoming an important part of any recruitment marketing strategy.

The question for most recruiting organizations, however, is to understand in what ways they should leverage mobile technologies to get the…

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Most everyone has heard the famous quote from Winston Churchill “Those that fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat it”. While this quote focuses on understanding the negative things in your past so you don’t do them again, I also think it’s important to look at the positive side as well. There is lots of information and experience from your past that you most definitely want to replicate and you need to be good at identifying these as well.…

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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 ways to optimize using LinkedIn, candidate experience, thinking strategically, social recruiting and HR playing some offense.

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

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On this blog, I talk a lot about recruiting metrics and why they are so important to understand how your recruiting is doing and how they can help you make better recruiting decisions. And I think that we’ve finally got to the point where organizations realize the importance of collecting these metrics in real-time for their recruiting. The main problem is they are still in the dark about…

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As a marketer, I’m continuously looking at our marketing / sales funnel to get a better understanding of how effective every step of the process is in our funnel and identifying the areas in our marketing plan that could be improved. We measure everything from how many visit our external content streams (blog articles, press releases, Google, etc.)to how many times this content leads to hits on our website to how effective our website is in getting users to sign up for a live…

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