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 HR blogs of 2013, having respect for job candidates, 5 HR Technology trends, the downside of doing the same thing and getting into the mind of the sourcer.

Since, he typically gets his list out before mine, I’d also like to point you to John Sumser’s 5 Links article this week.  A great list of interesting articles.

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

Here’s the Final Carnival of HR Bloggers for 2012 by Gautum Ghosh (@GautumGhosh)

A great collection of some of the year’s best articles in the HR and recruiting space.

Job Candidates are People Too…Employers Need to Show Some Respect by Andy Porter (@andyt_porter)

Good post with some great comments on candidate experience and how to better treat candidates.

Doing what you have always done is a recipe for recruitment disaster by Andy Headworth (@AndyHeadworth)

Really like the message of this post.  The need to try new recruitment strategies and use recruitment metrics to measure the results is extremely important.  Also, I urge you to check out Andy’s top 20 posts of 2012.

Five HR Technology Trends for 2013 – and three Critical Action Items by Emma Snider (@emmajs24)

Nice list of trends and a few good action oriented tips to do in 2013.

The Unique Mind of the Sourcer by Sarang Brahme (@SarangBrahme)

Interesting piece on what makes a good sourcer and the skills needed to succeed.

Hope you enjoy the list.  If you have any articles I should add to the list feel free to add them to the comments or follow us on Twitter @smashfly.