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The Trouble With Recruiting Young People

Recruiting Blogs

Facebook was founded in 2004, when the average age of college freshman was 6. Employers are increasingly building followings on social networks and niche communities into to widen their recruitment marketing funnel. The line between academic work, social media activity and work for an employer is finer than a resume can deliver.

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29 Best Books on Recruitment (MUST Read Resources for Recruiters)

Recruiting Blogs

10 Best Books on Recruitment Tech. Talent Management Systems: Best Practices in Technology Solutions for Recruitment, Retention and Workforce Planning. Talent Management Systems was published in 2004 and is written by Allan Schweyer , a well-known author and the co-founder of DEI360, a diversity and inclusion organization.

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The Rise and Fall of LinkedIn: A Recruiting Requiem.

Recruiting Daily

Back when they first launched in 2004, LinkedIn was the right product at the right time, a perfect storm of SaaS, social, social and search which filled a huge gap in the existing technology available to talent practitioners – demand which the product almost perfectly met.