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5 Interesting Recruitment News Stories to Digest this Week – 28th November 2016

Social Talent

this month – the lowest since 2005 according to the Office for National Statistics’ most recent statistics. The below screenshot is an indication of what you will get when viewing a candidate’s profile on LinkedIn: Image: ERE Media. This has in turn impacted the unemployment rate which fell to 4.8% And guess what?

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9 Intriguing Social Recruiting News Stories – 6th July 2015

Social Talent

But what can be said of report was perfectly summed up by it’s author, Peter Weddle: “The responses strongly refute the conventional wisdom, at least as it has been espoused by some in the recruiting field, that ‘job boards are dead or dying or dinosaurs.”. Industry Is LinkedIn For Bartenders And Chefs. Amen to that!

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The Evolution of Talent Acquisition with GitHub's Maisha Cannon

Entelo

My initial exposure to sourcing came in 2005 in the form of “mall walking” as a Regional Recruiter for Hot Topic. I would literally walk into the competitor’s shop to recruit employees! Candidates will tell their career stories through video, dynamic web pages, and sites like LinkedIn and Dribbble. Take that, Evernote!

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7 Recruitment News Stories that have the Industry Buzzing this Week – 7th December 2015

Social Talent

Your Feed (Home) is made up of updates from people in your network and content they are sharing on LinkedIn. Similar to Facebook’s News Feed, the app filters which updates you’ll see based on what you’re most likely to be interested in — a feature that will get better over time as you use the app more according to LinkedIn.

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How To Fix A Broken Recruiting Technology Strategy

Recruiting Daily

In other words, the statistics suggest that there’s a big disconnect between how recruiting technology is used and how it’s supposed to be used. Consider: Only 21% of companies have access to social recruiting technology , compared to 74% of internet users with at least one active social media account.

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LinkedIn Data Shows That Job-Hopping is Accelerating

Linkedin Talent Blog

For example, Generation X graduated between 1986-1990 and 1991-1995, and Millennials graduated between 2001-2005 and 2006-2010. Here are some of my tips for retaining Millennials and recent grads: Expose employees to lots of things -- At LinkedIn, we’re always looking for new ways to give employees exposure to different things.