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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. Currently, unemployment in the U.S.

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[Podcast] Rebroadcast | [InSights] Close More Business NOW

Crelate

EPISODE SEGMENTS: What’s changing in the staffing industry? What is Kortney’s biggest takeaway from “The Full Desk Experience” INSIGHTS HOSTED BY: Brad Bialy ( LinkedIn / Twitter) Brad Bialy has a deep passion for helping staffing and recruiting firms achieve their business objectives through strategic digital marketing.

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Finding Your Sourcing Sweet Spot

Staffing Talk

They found the following results with regard to using social networking sites at work: 31% of companies prohibit all access (down from 54% in 2009). 51% of companies permit access for business purposes only (up from 19% in 2009). 14% of companies permit access for limited personal use (down from 16% in 2009).

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The Curse of the Jobsworth in Recruiting and Hiring

Recruiting Daily

About the Author: Katrina Collier has been showing SMEs to blue chips around the globe how to source their staff on social media since 2009. She is a social recruiting specialist , a hands-on trainer and speaker, sharing proven tips and techniques that are always outside of the main stream.

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Acquiring Talent: Get Ready for the “New Normal” (Part 2)

Jobvite

In the worst month of job losses, in January 2009 when 741,000 jobs were lost, employers also hired 4.4 This quality and cost discipline is moving hiring away from easy, expensive, ineffective sources to higher quality, lower cost methods like social recruiting, direct sourcing, free job search engines and more.

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TruLondon Conference, February 17-19

Staffing Talk

Katharine is also very passionate about social media, in particular its use to aid building relationships in the recruitment sector. Earlier this year Katharine shocked the sourcing world by ranking highly in the famous SourceCon sourcing competition, SourceCon#1: 2009. Furthermore he is managing a group of approx.

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Everything I Learned About Recruiting, I Learned From Content Marketing

Recruiting Daily

I’ve worked in this space since before I even graduated college – like most of you fell into recruiting, I stumbled onto this strange line of work – and put in my time in my early career at the birthplace of cheezy content and crappy copywriting: an ad agency. Hey, it’s a pretty hot market for marketing.