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6 Intriguing Pieces of Recruitment News – 26th January 2015

Social Talent

Findings Overview: Average salaries for tech professionals rose in the US, but satisfaction with compensation declined – as a result Dice are of the opinion that recruiters will need to start offering in-demand tech professionals more if they hope to entice them to move jobs. Big data and cloud were the highest paid skills in 2014.

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Staffing News Of The Day, September 18, 2012

Staffing Talk

Dice Holdings buys Geeknet websites for $20M. Employees say access to Facebook and other social media at work is a recruitment drawcard. The Canadian Staffing Index was 113 in August of 2012, which represents a 23% year-over-year increase from August of 2011, and a 3% sequential increase from the index value of 110 in July.

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8 Fact-Filled Recruitment News Stories this Week – 14th December 2015

Social Talent

You can’t overlook the importance of social media in connecting with candidates and spreading the word about your opportunities. Interestingly, there’s not a huge difference in social media job activity between the 18-29 age group and the 30-49 group. Tinder: The Next Big Recruitment App?! working days to fill a job.

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The Staffing Professional’s Guide To Using Indeed.com

Staffing Talk

This is data posted publicly that you can slice and dice yourself, and can provide you with competitive recruiting intelligence. An example of Indeed providing its own data is a top industry trends growth list, based on year-to-year data from October 2010 to October 2011. Who your competitors are looking for, and at what rate?

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Border Wars: Tech Recruiting and Immigration Reform.

Recruiting Daily

FY 2009 brought little relief, and while it took a few months for the quota to be reached in FY 2010 and FY 2011 – when the recession was at its depths – the last 3 years have seen the H1B cap exhausted in a matter of mere days. This was a costly, time consuming and emotionally fraught pain in the ass, to be very PC about it.

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Staffing News of the Day, May 15, 2014

Staffing Talk

Monster’s new strategy includes aggregating jobs from social media and attracting the smallest employers [ERE]. Dice Holdings data shows businesses are taking longer to fill job vacancies [WSJ Blog]. Vice President Biden’s son accepts job at a Ukrainian gas company.

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