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The Evolution of Talent Acquisition with GitHub's Maisha Cannon

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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. I would literally walk into the competitor’s shop to recruit employees!

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Why Social Recruiting Is an Effective Tactic to Use in The Hiring Process

Recruiting Daily Advisor

unemployment claims reached 26 million , effectively erasing all job gains since the 2008 Great Recession and likely signaling the start of a new historic recession. Source: Guzaliia Filimonova / iStock / Getty Images. For companies looking for the right talent, one of the smartest ways to hire is through social recruiting.

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5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Candidate Sourcing Efforts

Recruiting Daily Advisor

You probably already know that if you’re not sourcing candidates, you’re missing out on discovering top talent for your company. If you don’t supplement your inbound applicants with sourced candidates, you’re missing a huge chunk of the market that just never considered you in their job search process. Assess Skills Early On.

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6 Recruitment News Stories to Kick-Off 2016 – 4th January 2016

Social Talent

That’s because according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) recently released 8th annual report on the recruitment industry’s performance , we can see that total recruitment industry turnover increased by 9.7% in 2014/15 to reach £31.5 And more than a quarter (26%) are securing margins of 20% and over.

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Want Better Recruiting? Add These 41 Twitter Feeds To Your List

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Matt Alder is a talent acquisition and innovation consultant at Metashift. With Mervyn Dinnen, Alder is the co-author of Exceptional Talent: How to Attract, Acquire and Retain the Very Best Employees. Bill Boorman is the organizer of the The Recruiting Unconference and a social recruiting expert. Matt Alder.

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What Recruiting and Marketing Have In Common

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In fact, I never even considered recruitment until one day my father-in-law and husband decided they were going to start a recruiting firm and I was going to run sales. While that was 2008 (a very bad year to start a recruiting firm), I found that the world of talent acquisition really appealed to me.

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8 Industry-Rocking Recruitment News Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into this Week – 20th June 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: Microsoft Buy LinkedIn for $26 BILLION. Source: Microsoft News Center. So what do we know about this acquisition and what do we think will be its affect on us, the users? Here’s everything we know about the acquisition so far: Microsoft considered acquiring LinkedIn around 2008 for $1.5

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