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The 7 Biggest Mistakes College Recruiters Make

CareerBuilder

2016 has arrived. The long-expected retirement of baby boomers means tremendous opportunities for graduating college students looking for work, as well as companies looking to find top talent. So, where can companies go wrong when recruiting college students or recent grads? Also, many undergraduates may be married.

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6 Fascinating Recruitment News Stories You Must Read this Week – 24th October 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: LinkedIn’s 2016 Workforce Diversity Report is In! As of June 2016, representation at LinkedIn is as follows: 54% of LinkedIn’s workforce is white (down 2% from 2015) and makes up 63% of leadership (unchanged from 2015). 3% of employees are disabled. “Our That’s the metric of success.”

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College Dropout: Why We Need To Rethink College Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

This gratitude might be at odds with the convenient narrative of Gen Y as corporate mercenaries, ungrateful job hunters unwilling to pay their dues. These, of course, are the sort of specious selling point that career advice consultants and employment brand experts talk about ad nauseum as critical components of a college recruiting strategy.

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How Scrapping the Traditional College Recruitment Model Helped LinkedIn Find More Diverse Talent

Linkedin Talent Blog

As the head of the LinkedIn Campus Recruiting team, I’ve come to realize that traditional college recruiting just doesn’t work anymore - at least when it comes to finding diverse talent. With that in mind, we decided to completely change how we recruited at the college-level. The results.

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How to Use Data to Attract the Next Generation of Talent

CareerBuilder

.” The solution is both easy — and complicated: Stop basing your campus recruitment on a guess, and get the right data to build a solid strategy. Data can help you target the right colleges. Can you find engineers at a land grant college? While you’re at it, get out of your comfort zone.

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How to Hire New Graduates: 5 Recruitment Marketing Optimizations That Work

Recruitics

For context, we reached out to College Recruiter , a job search site geared towards students and recent grads. The labor market is pretty strong for most recent college graduates in that they have a lot of choices,” said College Recruiter President and Founder Steven Rothberg.

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Cody Horton Interview: Diversity Sourcing Expert

WizardSourcer

How did you get your start, how did you progress, where are you at this point in time? The Navy assigned me to recruiting as part of my shore duty rotation. I recruited Healthcare professionals including nurses, physicians, dentists, and optometrists. Today he is a top leader at a very successful non-profit.