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College Dropout: Why We Need To Rethink College Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

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. All Falls Down: The College Recruiting Disconnect. School Spirit: Why College Recruiting Is Broken.

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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. In fact, it’s a measured goal.

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Why the LinkedIn Recruiting Team is Waving “Bye-bye” to Traditional College Recruiting

Linkedin Talent Blog

As the head of the LinkedIn College Recruiting team, last year I realized – my team had to quit doing traditional college recruiting, immediately. I’m saying quit doing the same old institutionalized college recruiting process right now. LinkedIn did it that way too. Let me explain.

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Big man on campus: Effective College recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

Big man on campus: Effective College recruiting. All millennial stereotypes aside, the new labor force brings a unique set of skills to organizations that engage in proactive college recruitment processes. Gone are the days where the biggest industry name took first pick of the best college grads.

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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

After several assignments in IT leadership roles, I decided to leave the Navy and joined Microsoft and eventually returned to my passion as a recruiting professional. I invite people to connect on LinkedIn or via email. Despite these obstacles, the TA community has shown compassion and support for each other.

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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). LinkedIn Endorsements Get a Much Needed Re-Boot. Tell Me More.