The current “war” in the web space is presenting new challenges to existing players like Google. Especially with sudden surge of social media, few people doubt how Google will cope-up against Facebook / Twitter. Little we understand that both these channels play with “information” and do very little to innovate with it.

QWiki has been recently released in TechCrunch. It is an excellent and smart example of information is more powerful and impactful…

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For last 6 years sourcing has been a real passion for me. I would

proudly say that SourceCon and community around SourceCon has been one

of the prime reasons for this. I can still remember me and few of my

team members at OS2i spent an entire night in 2007 solving SC challenge.

I came 4th in challenge while others also completed the same. Lot of

learning we did in Sourcing at that time was by following in lights of

Barbara Ling to Shally’s. We were… Continue

My Ex-CEO forwarded me a site called LinkedIn in 2006. I was instantly impressed and connected to this very concept of being professional in networking. At the end - that's the most important identity to know for any recruiter eh? However before going GAGA over it - I had to understand the mechanism behind LinkedIn and how I could connect to potential talent. However over the few years,…

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I recently asked one of recruitment managers about how do you form your recruitment strategy and he discussed various aspects about talent acquisition/management, sourcing, advertisements, referrals and so on. However, at the end of the discussion - I thought he looked outside so much that he completely forgotten about looking inwards. What do I mean?



For corporate recruitment departments, recruitment not only mean finding/interviewing/placing the candidates but it starts right from… Continue

In the preliminary stages for executive level recruitment, gathering the names is a starter. As per my experience, discussions and readings etc - is it such a standard process of identifying target companies and then use different channels like cold calling, networking, referrals to find the candidates?



Does it differ from company to company? What sub-sections of this process defines the successful ones from others? Also, what's the strategy placed behind the name generation… Continue