If you look at the HR Technology marketplace, you will notice that centralization is a big trend in the space.  You see this in HRIS platforms, Talent Management Suites and Recruitment Marketing Platforms as well as the motivation for many of the acquisitions that have happened in the last year (SuccessFactors, Taleo, Kenexa, etc.)

While there are some niche…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about social recruiting metrics, beginning your social recruiting journey, some cool LinkedIn features, careers page fails and Career Site Optimization.

Here are the articles that interested us this week (in…

When we talk about building a Talent Network, we speak a lot about providing a number of options and ways for candidates to opt-in to this network, whether that’s in job distribution campaigns, on the Career Site or a number of different locations.  But the second half of that equation and just as important is your recruiters / sourcers proactively sourcing candidates into your…

The last few weeks have seen me smack dab in the middle of the wedding circuit.  I’m getting to that age where a number of friends and family members are starting to get engaged and married and there is no busier time than the last summer months (July & August).

It’s in these months that the churches and reception venues get most of their business and the ones that are the most hotly contested with all the couples vying for the best venues and deals.  Couples that really…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about the best recruiters, making someone do something, trendspotters in HR and recruiting, making recruiting fun, better LinkedIn Inmails and employer branding.

Here are the articles that interested us this…

For nearly every recruiting organization, the corporate Career Siteis their recruiting hub.  It’s the one place that all the online recruitment activities point back to and where candidates ultimately end up when they are looking for and applying for employment opportunities.

Done are the days where the Career Site is just a static repository of your jobs.  Just…

While the quick answer to this question probably is a “better job” (or just a job in general), what I’m really going for here is figuring out what really drives your candidate to want a position.  Sure this can be a high salary but there is also a whole other list of factors that can ultimately affect a candidate’s decision to apply from benefits to work/life balance.

While some of these factors will be consistent across disciplines, this hierarchy of wants will most likely change…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about United Airlines, ideas, spending in 2013, ruling the world and implementation lessons.

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

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If you have been watching the Olympics as I have over the past month, you have more than likely heard about McKayla Maroney’s story.  But if not, here it is in a nutshell:

After winning a team gold with the US women’s gymnastics team, it was her time to shine in the individual events and her specialty, the vault (for which she was the world champion and overwhelming favorite.)  She had the greatest difficulty (and pressure) of all the competitors and with one mis-step she…

Within a given recruitment marketing strategy, you will be crafting and sharing a number of recruitment messages and content that aim to provide value to your overall recruiting performance.  From your job ads, to your Career Site landing pages to your email campaigns, your organization will be interacting with candidates consistently through the messages you produce from a recruiting perspective.

And while job ads are the most talked about form of messaging that people talk…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about recruiters ruining LinkedIn, boomerang hires and recruitment ad tips.

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

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Earlier this week, I examined one of the more important topics regarding mobile recruiting, which is how to make your Career Site more mobile friendly. With the two main methods explored being the Smartphone App vs. the mSite.

In…

This post was inspired by Keith McIllvaine’s blog post Recruiting on the Move.

With the number of smartphone owners rising by the year (by all accounts), it’s not hard to predict that mobile applications are the way that most people will interact with the web. …

Yesterday, I posed the question on Twitter “What would some social media best practices that recruiting organizations should live by?” and I got a few responses.  The one I liked the best and will be the subject of this post is from Chris Cruz (@Chris_SDD):

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If you haven’t learned by now, I’m kind of a sports geek.  Not only do I geek out for the NBA Draft but I also find the Major League Baseball trade deadline to be incredibly interesting.

It’s at this point in the MLB season that can make or break a team’s playoff chances.  General Managers are currently deciding where their team stands in the playoff race and if they…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about lessons from the Olympics, Amazon’s homepage hiring message, HR selling the company, a US government job board and marketing circles.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no…

While I talked to about…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about the 80/20 rule, Yahoo’s new CEO, contextual mobile phones and employer branding.

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

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Every time a hire is made successfully, it’s a combination of the right opportunity at the right time for both the candidate and the organization.  A candidate is at the right place to move to the next step in their career and the organization offers an opportunity that meets the thresholds that the candidate desires.

When both the candidate’s and organization’s needs match up, it’s a glorious thing.  However, there are many instances in which the timing doesn’t meet up and…

Yesterday, for a presentation I was giving on HR.com on the Candidate Experience, I received a really interesting question from a attendee on Source of Influence:

How many touch-points do you need typically for a candidate to apply?

First, it’s a great question.  I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t have enough data to give a definitive answer today but we are striving to understand this…