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Anti-Social Recruiting: Why Sourcing Best Practices Are BS

Recruiting Daily

Of course, this was in 2005, and the explosion of publicly available personal information that’s so ubiquitous today was, at the time, still in its infancy. Back in the Day: The Original Social Sourcing. The employer value proposition : give up a cushy corporate gig and go into project consulting.

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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! Take that, Evernote! We did a lot of creative problem solving, including hosting “open calls” at the local EDD office.

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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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