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SocialTalent Author Spotlight: Glen Cathey

Social Talent

I started as an IT recruiter back in January 1997 with a small, privately held IT staffing company RMSI in the Washington, DC metro area of the United States. I actually found the job on Washtington Post’s online job board in December 1996 – which was pretty early for a newspaper to have online job postings.

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TalentBin: The Reinvention Of Recruiting Or LinkedIn Competitor?

Staffing Talk

But it stands to reason if you can use job boards and other widely available sources to find candidates, so can everyone else. Once you log on and create the title of whatever job you are recruiting on, it immediately searches every person with that background available anywhere on the web. TalentBin works a little differently.

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Digital Era Marketing is Still About the Fundamentals

COATS Staffing Software

The goal of a staffing agency is to find qualified people to work for clients who are willing to pay for the service. Twenty years ago, promoting your staffing firm might have included an ad in the newspaper, a listing in the phone book, or a promotion on a park bench. YouTube, 2005. Thus enters the social media dilemma.

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Digital Era Marketing is Still About the Fundamentals

COATS Staffing Software

The goal of a staffing agency is to find qualified people to work for clients who are willing to pay for the service. Twenty years ago, promoting your staffing firm might have included an ad in the newspaper, a listing in the phone book, or a promotion on a park bench. YouTube, 2005. Thus enters the social media dilemma.

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Digital Era Marketing is Still About the Fundamentals

COATS Staffing Software

The goal of a staffing agency is to find qualified people to work for clients who are willing to pay for the service. Twenty years ago, promoting your staffing firm might have included an ad in the newspaper, a listing in the phone book, or a promotion on a park bench. YouTube, 2005. Thus enters the social media dilemma.

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Digital Era Marketing is Still About the Fundamentals

COATS Staffing Software

The goal of a staffing agency is to find qualified people to work for clients who are willing to pay for the service. Twenty years ago, promoting your staffing firm might have included an ad in the newspaper, a listing in the phone book, or a promotion on a park bench. YouTube, 2005. Thus enters the social media dilemma.

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UPS Delivers 55,982 Seasonal Hires With Social Media

Staffing Talk

They use a three-tiered approach of advertising on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, as well as job boards and search engine keywords and college visits. As recently as 2005, the company says it was spending 90% of its recruitment advertising on traditional local media. Do you know of others Staffing Talk should take a look at?