Recruiting Blogs

APRIL 25, 2022

Recruiters’ experience of participating in job fairs and engaging with proactive candidates is significantly different from pushing the news via recruiting channels and hoping to receive applications. Employer Branding Opportunities. Interested in Campus Recruitment? What are your recruitment goals?

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Guidelines Employer Branding Education Screening 52

Recruiting Daily

APRIL 26, 2016

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that we get so caught up with cool tools and shiny new tech toys that we forget, or simply don’t know about, some of the stuff that should be a standard operating procedure in sourcing and recruiting. No recruiter is ever perfect.

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Yello

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Attract & engage college students to fill immediate job openings and to build a strong talent pipeline for the future. Campus recruitment is a strategy for sourcing, engaging and hiring young talent for internship and entry-level positions. Why campus recruiting is more important than ever.

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MightyRecruiter

APRIL 5, 2017

For instance, employers touting internship programs get the opportunity to gain access to campus career fairs promoting not only internships, but full-time opportunities, all while marketing the employer brand to the greater college population.

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Symphony Talent

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

On occasion we will share these posts to show how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go with recruitment marketing as an industry. This is no more present than in recruiting. Sourcing with your Mobile Phone. Here’s a few different ways to find and source candidates via your mobile device.

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ApplicantStack

MAY 28, 2019

Job boards are websites where employers post open positions for individuals to review and apply. Some job boards are highly specialized by industry, geography, or role. Other niche sites may be favorites within your industry or for the position you seek to fill. How do job boards help employers find applicants?

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Recruiting Blogs

APRIL 7, 2021

Recruiters’ experience of participating in job fairs and engaging with proactive candidates is significantly different from pushing the news via recruiting channels and hoping to receive applications. Employer Branding Opportunities. Interested in Campus Recruitment? What are your recruitment goals?

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Guidelines Employer Branding Education Screening 36

Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2014

That doesn’t make me unique – after all, recruiting junk mail is as ubiquitous as those ads for cheap imported Viagra or getting hit up for a bridge loan by a Nigerian prince – but as a recruiter, it makes me a little depressed. Please stop sending out b t e-mails about employment opportunities.

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CareerBuilder

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

It’s safe to say recruiting in the tech industry can be a somewhat of a nightmare. While most employers would agree diversity in the workforce is both beneficial and needed in an era of skills shortages and cutthroat competition, a glaring oversight in the search for great tech candidates remains. Source: EMSI Analyst.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

DC houses all of the three scary letter US agencies that have movies made about them – CIA, NSA, FBI – and all of these agencies require clearances at multiple levels from a secret to what is called a Full Scope Poly or FSP, as our lovely industry just loves acronyms and red tape. The World Is Not Enough.

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Hacker Earth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The conference brings together top industry experts to discuss recruitment practices in the technical industry. The conference will house 30+ internal talent acquisition, employer branding, recruitment marketing, talent analytics, and sourcing experts, sharing their tricks and tips on recruitment.

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Recruiting Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2015

See, recently, my role has focused more on sourcing than recruiting, which has been a recurring theme throughout my career, with the line between these two continuously shifting from req to req, client to client. “Job Description” Doesn’t Have To Be An Oxymoron.

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CareerBuilder

JANUARY 27, 2016

There are so many ways to learn and grow in the recruiting industry. This includes recruiters. She is the global head of digital recruitment and employer brand for Oracle’s Global Talent Acquisition Organization. 2016 SHRM Employment Law & Legislative Conference. Learn more about the event.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

While I know it’s rampant across all industries, it most disgusts me when I see it in our own. The misogyny I’ve witnessed in the recruiting world blows my mind. Despite the fact that women are the majority in our industry, men are flippant and, at times, disregard women in the hiring process.

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 11, 2016

I say all of this because after somehow the educational industries ended up with the bad rap while the universities are still the golden child. But it’s important to consider who’s profiting from it and consider that you might be the one losing by not recruiting from online universities.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 15, 2015

This year, unlike last, I wasn’t a passive attendee, but rather, was flattered to be asked to lead one of the sourcing roundtables offered during the breakout sessions, which quickly turned into the kind of tool time hack-a-thon that geeks like myself (and anyone else whose idea of fun involves sourcing and slating candidates).

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 20, 2016

I’m frequently reminded of one of the painful realities of being part of this industry – that no matter how much you’ve proven yourself in the past, you’ve got to constantly and consistently prove that you’re more than just another recruiter. Recruiters deserve better than this.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 5, 2016

If you’re not sure where to start reaching out as a recruiter, check out one of the manifold Facebook or LinkedIn groups out there (be careful, some get a little spammy, since they’re mostly recruiting readers); register for RecruitingBlogs.com or start your own site. Hey, if you’re a recruiter, you’re family.

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1-Page

APRIL 18, 2016

As a result, if you don’t want to get blindsided, you need to constantly monitor new industry movements, emerging trends, and their associated (and rapidly developing) “next practices.”. I estimate that in the past, a corporate recruiting function could go for nearly five years without a major transformation.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 29, 2015

Those used to be the minimum qualifications for this line of work, but these days, it seems that anyone with a liberal arts degree can simply step out of the college classroom and into recruitment; hell, many people who just need a job, any job, somehow seems to find their way into this profession. Recruiters are none of these things.

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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. Let me tell you where I’m going with all of this.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 2, 2015

Oh, sure – we’ve got all of these cool tools and killer tech all of the sudden, which purport to help recruiters reach uncharted waters and go where no recruiter has ever gone before. Recruiting Has Hit Rock Bottom.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

These so-called “recruiters” will, for the most part, wash out from the industry in a year or two, leaving nothing more than a black mark on the professional reputation for those of us who are in this because this is more than a job for us: it’s our lives’ work, our passion and our purpose.

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Social Talent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

That means now is the time for more targeted recruiting and a stronger employer brand to reach new talent, as well as employee engagement initiatives to retain your best talent. Once again, employer branding comes into play, as workers’ most trusted resource is their circle of friends and colleagues.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 10, 2015

Sorry, I can’t tell you how to get your resume looked at by a recruiter I don’t know at a company I know nothing about – although I can tell you how to bat at least a little better than average, there’s no silver bullet for sourcing for candidates or searching for jobs. Recruiting Never Rests.

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Recruiting Daily

APRIL 28, 2015

Once you get to know the candidate – and they know you care about them about people instead of just another job seeker – you’ll established the fundamentals required for trust, but maintaining that trust throughout the hiring, offer and onboarding process (and beyond) requires something most recruiters suck at: communication.

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Candidate Experience Applicant Tracking Systems Employer Branding Onboarding 40

Recruiting Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Recently, it seems my rants against the rotten state of the recruiting industry have earned me the reputation of being “the angry recruiter,” an honorific that, while not entirely accurate, has been more or less true since well before I started writing these posts.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 26, 2015

All I know is that in the 18 years I’ve been in this business, I’ve seen us move from Rolodexes to resume databases to the rise of online employer branding, social sourcing and mobile recruiting. It’s one of those things you learn to live with in this industry. Repeatedly.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 9, 2015

Either way, it provides me a platform to pontificate and make a point, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned you need in this industry, it’s an outlet. They wanted me, after all, and I went into this conversation not realizing that talking shop with a direct competitor isn’t exactly kosher in this industry.

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Recruiting Daily

JULY 15, 2015

The way jobs get created is one heck of a fable, and you probably wouldn’t believe it even if I told it to you, which is why I’ve decided to stick to sourcing and screening instead of storytelling. For that matter, if that’s not sourcing, what is? Frankly, I wish I knew, but that’s a tale for a different day.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 25, 2016

While cybersecurity has evolved , back in the day, anyone with a CCIE designation was worth their friggin’ weight in gold; these were the networking professionals sitting unquestionably at the upper echelon of the tech recruiting hierarchy at the time. save these everyday exchanges.

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 5, 2015

OK, there’s the obvious: we, as recruiters, are not without sin – in fact, sinning is often just business as usual, or as we call it in this industry, “contingency search.” Not every recruiter is wicked, but you wouldn’t know that if you talked to a random sampling of recent candidates, promise you that.

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Recruiting Daily

MAY 18, 2015

That will come, if you’re a halfway decent recruiter, but it will come because you weren’t afraid to be a champion to those good candidates who need some good to come in their life. If you don’t have anything for them, fine – but just keep a folder of the ones in your industry worth keeping in touch with, and do it.

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Recruiting Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Sourcing sucks when you have no idea what role it is you’re really filling, a big handicap considering you can’t fail, at least if you’re the kind of recruiter who has a job and reputation on the line with every single search, no matter what specialty we speciously self-identify with. Don’t Go Away.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

If your company has a database, whether in an ATS or another centralized repository where you’ve been storing resumes, you’re likely sitting on one of the biggest assets – and best data source – any talent acquisition function has at its disposal. We might as well make the most of it.

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Recruiting Daily

JANUARY 20, 2016

This is back before sourcing was nothing but InMails and mass e-mail blasts – when it actually required some skill, and by skill, I mean actually logging onto job boards and running searches in the only candidate databases any of us had access to. – resumes. Currently, he is a Technical Recruiter for Oracle. From Lilly.

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Recruiting Daily

MARCH 4, 2016

For some reason, we can afford a cottage industry around compensation, but we can’t afford to pay candidates what they’re worth. Those of us in the recruiting trenches every day know what candidates realistically expect or deserve based on our industry or functional expertise, market research and prescreening acumen.

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