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7 Useful Tools Every Hiring Manager Should Check Out

Social Talent

These days, virtually every business runs background checks on its applicants before hiring. There is a good reason for this trend: a detailed background check policy can tell a hiring manager a lot about a prospective employee regarding criminal history, education, work history, and more. VidCruiter.

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7 FREE Twitter Products for Serious Social Recruiters

Social Talent

We make reference to this incredible product quite a lot, but if you’re still unfamiliar with it, TweetDeck is a free social media dashboard application that allows you to easily manage a number of Twitter accounts, topics and hashtags all on one screen.

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Social Recruiting on the Rise; Results from our 2010 Survey

Jobvite

Social networks lead all other recruiting channels for planned investment by employers as the economy recovers. Today, we’ve released the results of the Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey 2010. 36% will spend less on job boards and 38% will spend less on third party recruiters and search firms.

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Jobvite’s New 2015 Recruiter Nation Survey Reveals Talent Crunch – 95% of Recruiters Anticipate Similar or Increased Competition for Skilled Workers in the Coming Year; 86% Expect to Expand Hiring

Jobvite

This year, for the first time, Jobvite expanded the scope of its survey beyond social recruiting, gathering insights into all aspects of recruiting. This year’s data reveals a fiercely competitive market for talent — one where recruiters struggle to find high quality candidates. Jobvite 2009 Survey.

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The Recruiting Division is now ContractRecruiter.com

Contract Recruiter

I have been exceptionally busy making a number of incremental but impactful changes to our recruiting tools, team, and best practices – especially in regard to passive candidate sourcing. Since 2009, we have been known as “The Recruiting Division”. But the biggest change over past few months has been our new company name.

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Jobvite Raises $15 Million in Series C Funding

Jobvite

Social Recruiting applications by Jobvite are now used by over 500 companies , such as Whole Foods Market, Starbucks Coffee Company, Zappos.com, Inc., The widespread adoption of social media is changing how people find jobs,” said Dan Finnigan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jobvite. ”We Yelp and Twitter.

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These are the Best Times to Post Your Jobs on LinkedIn

Linkedin Talent Blog

is at a post-recession low, hovering around 5% (down from nearly 10% in 2009). While this has brought on a lot of exciting work for recruiting teams and staffing agencies, it also means that the competition for talent is increasing. January sees the largest spike in new hires in the year. Don’t think so?