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UPS Delivers 55,982 Seasonal Hires With Social Media

Staffing Talk

According to Matt Lavery, corporate talent acquisition manager at UPS, the planning is “year-round including identifying hiring needs, package volume trends, interview training and refining advertising strategies.”. As recently as 2005, the company says it was spending 90% of its recruitment advertising on traditional local media.

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

Recruiting Blogs

The book urges readers to go beyond Linkedin and other social media in sourcing. It specifies the specific tools and apps you can use to cut through all the noise and attract the right talent. Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy.

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Recruiting Trends 2020 Report: Predictions for the Year Ahead

Yello

As you toast to the new year and finalize your business plans for 2020, take stock of the emerging recruitment trends that will define talent acquisition in the coming years. Talent acquisition is quite literally our business. million people work from home , which is a 159% increase since 2005. Learn More.

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The Evolution of Talent Acquisition with GitHub's Maisha Cannon

Entelo

Hosts Rob Stevenson and Vivek Reddy chatted with Maisha about how much talent acquisition has changed since she first got her start over 15 years ago, which means far less cold calling and sorting paper resumes, and far more digital sourcing wizardry. These changes will redefine how recruiters attract, identify, and assess talent.

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Breakers, Makers, and Explorers: Meet 11 of the Newest Speakers Joining Us for Hiring Success 18 EU

SmartRecruiters

As Hiring Success 18 Europe fast approaches, we bring you the people who are disrupting Talent Acquisition with tough questions and thought-provoking commentary. Whether it’s psychology, technology, social justice, or simply the bottom line – there is no singular path that leads a person to a life in TA. Manjuri Sinha – Zalando.

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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. Problem is, those fundamentals will only fundamentally get your sourcing strategy so far. Click here to register (and good on ya).

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How To Fix A Broken Recruiting Technology Strategy

Recruiting Daily

On the capability gap scale, the study scored talent acquisition in the top four, with a -27 score when ranking company’s perceived abilities to address known challenges. 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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