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Video: My thoughts on Sourcing & the Future of Recruiting

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At LinkedIn’s 2014 Talent Connect event in San Francisco, I had the opportunity to be interviewed on the topic of up-skilling recruiting teams. Future of Sourcing and Recruiting LinkedIn Sourcing Sourcing and Recruiting Active Attraction Candidate Engagement data Future Glen Cathey Messaging Passive Proactive Recruiting talent'

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The 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make you a Better Recruiter…

Social Talent

It’s easy to hide behind the rhetoric that “the more you know about a candidate the better placed we are to judge them”, but do we really need to know how many A*’s they got at GCSE? About the author: Ben Slater is VP Growth at Beamery , the All-in-One Sourcing, CRM, Candidate Engagement and Employer Branding Platform.

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5 Shocking Mistakes Killing Your Email Open Rates (And How to Never Make Them Again)

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Although a 2014 study by Retention Science put the word count with the highest open rate (21%) at 6 to 10 words. According to a 2014 report from Movable Ink , if you do catch a prospect’s attention, they are just as likely to keep reading for 15 seconds or more as they are to give it a quick glance. Source: Mobile Ink, 2014.

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1:1 Recruiting: The Secret to a Great Candidate Experience

Social Talent

The 2014 Candidate Experience Report shows that 64.3% The message might not result in an application off the bat, but if you play your cards right you can build a pipeline of passive candidates for future roles and win big down the line.

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5 New Staffing Challenges: How to Overcome Them

CareerBuilder

CareerBuilder and Inavero’s 2014 Opportunities in Staffing Study reveals, however, that some of the biggest staffing challenges are a consistent, memorable candidate experience. Staffing firms are very focused on creating loyal clients and candidates, but do very little to help them share their positive stories with others.

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When Recruiting Meets Marketing, and How We Slashed Our Time to Hire to Two Weeks

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Long story short: we’re never going back to how we used to source and hire. The Bay Area is now on par with Manhattan in terms of rental costs, and according to SFGate, the average tech salary rose to a sky high $176,275 in 2014, including stock options and bonuses. Optimizing and automating the sourcing function.

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The Candidate Outreach Experiment that Got Us an Incredible 26% Response Rate From Software Engineering Candidates in San Francisco

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Long story short: we’re never going back to how we used to source and hire. The Bay Area is now on par with Manhattan in terms of rental costs, and according to SFGate, the average tech salary rose to a sky high $176,275 in 2014, including stock options and bonuses. Optimizing and automating the sourcing function.