Social Talent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

What this means for you: Social media is now officially as important as job boards when it comes to recruiting, so you need both a presence on and a strategy for social talent acquisition. Online job boards are becoming less important, so perhaps it’s time re-allocate funds from your careers site to your social media channels.

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Social Media Linkedin Interviews Employer Branding 70

Recruiting Daily

MARCH 10, 2015

Read Books And Blogs. Stay informed about what’s going on in recruiting – and just as importantly, in the rest of that great big world out there that doesn’t give two s s about staffing. There’s knowledge to be had in both business related blogs and books by great authors like Bukowski or Whitman.

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Social Media Real Estate Sourcing Screening 40

Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Being a recruiter isn’t always easy. We talk a ton about “candidate experience,” but the truth is having a good experience works both ways, really, and most of the time, it’s the candidate treating the recruiter like s**t, not the other way around. Charles de Lint.

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Candidate Experience Course Meeting Interviews 40

Recruiting Daily

MARCH 24, 2015

So it goes – lists aren’t categorically incipient or idiotic, but the only ones that have any sort of actual value or meaning are the handful that are written with some thought beyond specious social media analytics or lining up the usual suspects. I know, you’re probably rolling your eyes. But here’s the thing.

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Industry Social Media Media Sourcing 40

Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 29, 2015

Recruiters, have the common decency to pick up the phone and call candidates to tell them that you’re seeing other people. I can’t understand how so many have so little courtesy that they can’t take the minute to make a call that makes all the difference when it comes to candidate experience. I promise.

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Sourcing Staffing Candidate Experience Applicant Tracking Systems 40

Hacker Earth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Lou is the author of the Amazon top-10 best-seller, Hire With Your Head (John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 2007), The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired (Workbench Media, 2013), and the Lynda.com Performance-based Hiring video training program (2016). Founder and CEO of Red Branch Media. Jade Votava. Maren Hogan.

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Talent Acquisition Conference Employer Branding Talent Analytics 13

Recruiting Daily

JUNE 9, 2015

It was then I learned that you can never really gauge anything about a company’s talent acquisition function until you see it through the filter of how they treat candidates, first. And I guess whatever I’d done wrong in terms of candidate experience was catching up with me.

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How To Talent Acquisition Candidate Experience Meeting 40

Recruiting Daily

JUNE 2, 2015

Technology helps us cast a wider net for candidates than ever before , but paradoxically, does nothing to solve for the fact that recruiters no longer feel the need to actually pick up the phone and make calls, or take the time to engage or build relationships with candidates beyond some superficial connection on social media. .

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Twitter Social Media Industry Talent Acquisition 40

Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

And if you’ve been reading this blog at all, you already know many of mine – I hope you have as much fun hearing them as I do telling them. “Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.” . Emma Goldman. We all have stories.

Engineering 48

Engineering Industry Course Diversity 48

Recruiting Daily

APRIL 28, 2015

As a profession that’s got such a poor public perception, establishing trust in candidates and clients as a recruiter can be a bit tricky at times, to say the least. And our own experiences as candidates is something every recruiter should think about every day on the job.

Candidate Experience 40

Candidate Experience Applicant Tracking Systems Employer Branding Onboarding 40

Linkedin Talent Blog

JULY 10, 2017

Recruiting on alternative sites where your targets hang out. Spreading your recruiting message and posting jobs on large social media sites like LinkedIn is now the norm. What is new is spreading your message on niche social media sites that are frequented by your target recruiting audience. Final Thoughts.

Strategy 51

Strategy Employer Branding Video College Recruiting 51

Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Standard Operating Procedures: The body would create a set of general guidelines outlining acceptable practices, defining responsibilities and outcomes, and creating specific coursework and certification around both candidate experience and client service. Derek currently lives in the DC area.

How To 40

How To Government Industry Training 40

Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 5, 2016

They keep their heads down, fight the good fight, and give candidates great experiences without talking about “candidate experience.” ” In short, I respect recruiters who get s**t done – even if they don’t keynote conferences or write rambling blog posts. Satisfy My Soul.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2015

How Crappy Job Descriptions Kill Candidate Experience. Yeah, I busted out “ candidate experience ,” because, you know, no blog post would be complete without talking about this perennial HR water cooler favorite.

Job Descriptions 40

Job Descriptions Candidate Experience Sourcing Employer Branding 40

Recruiting Daily

JUNE 15, 2015

Last but not least, what really made Talent42 for me wasn’t the stuff that went on during the conference itself, but rather, the amazing networking opportunities presented by the event and its eclectic, world class mix of attendees, who represented a great cross section of the tech recruiting landscape and industry today.

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Conference Social Media Sourcing Tools 40

Recruiting Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The Agency Recruiting Con is On. What follows is a true story, and a tragic one, about what happens when crappy candidate experience, craptastic employers, con artistry and capitalism collide in a perfect s**t storm. In short, he recruits not with the goal of closing reqs, but improving lives by improving careers.

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Course Staffing Industry Candidate Experience 40

Recruiting Daily

MARCH 3, 2015

Transforming Recruiting From Occupation to Profession. And so, taking the actual experts (not the self-described social media types whose primary qualifications are knowing how to tweet) and academics out of the equation, we’re left without any authoritative arbiter of what constitutes a recruiter or recruiting.

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Staffing Talent Acquisition Industry Conference 40

Recruiting Daily

MARCH 31, 2016

We can sit around and talk until we’re blue in the face (and do) about how important candidate experience is, how ethical we are in our recruiting, how the employer brands we represent are genuinely great corporate citizens and even better companies to work for. But I digress. Well, you know what? Sounds corny, I know.

How To 40

How To Social Media Training Course 40

Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 5, 2015

And the point is that we, as recruiters, could take a page from Dante’s book and learn that in our industry, too, there are differentiated degrees of sin, resulting in what could be construed as the 9 Circles of Recruiting Hell. This doesn’t happen to male recruiters, and shouldn’t impact our female counterparts, too.

Course 40

Course Industry Compensation Social Media 40

Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Forget candidate experience. Let me tell you, this recruiter experience was frustrating as hell. There was no Facebook or LinkedIn, and social media wasn’t even on our recruiting radar. So I get it. Instead, we actually spoke to one another, but that’s another post entirely. Back to our story.

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Monster Data Job Boards System 40

Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 26, 2015

You might not be a real recruiter if… You place a premium on compliance instead of candidate experience, if you prefer filling out spreadsheets to engaging with people, or if you base your life on sweating the small stuff instead of seeing the bigger talent picture.

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Talent Acquisition Fashion Industry Job Descriptions 40