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TalentNet Live Social Recruiting Conference

The TalentNet Live Social Recruiting Conference came to North Texas on Aug 27th. The full day event was all about social networking, career networking and social recruitment.

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Scratch that, Job Boards will die

Ok, maybe not so fast, but they are on their way out considering they are not innovating quick enough. Monster invested over $100m on their Power Resume Search which includes the acquisition of Trovix, that is a lot of dough just to search resumes! Now there are thousands of job boards powered by [...]

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Referral Recruitment – The current Paradigm Shift

Hans Gieskes wrote a good article on ERE.net on why referral recruitment hasn’t really gained a foothold. Many of you may have met or heard of him before, he certainly has a breadth of experience (you can check out his profile here). We are at the cusp of a paradigm shift in the [...]

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SEO for Job Sites, Still not Enough – Right On Microsoft!

Ok, so I was reading an OLD article but it is still relevant. Marvin Smith at Microsoft knows what he is talking about. Microsoft has a SEO job site by one of our competitors Jobs2Web and as far as SEO goes Marvin says they are getting good results. What it comes down [...]

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Create your Talent Community before employees exit

In the past 3 months more people have voluntarily quit than been terminated. What a shocker right? Nope. With a high unemployment and the perception of plentiful talent, employers tend to underserve their employees. Unfortunately, the employees that really want to quit are the best ones!
Haven’t you ever wished you had [...]

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Why do Employee Referral Programs matter in a recession?

We have always heard that the highest quality candidate comes from an employee referral program. The problem is that many companies don’t know how to do it well. As you know Dr. Sullivan is well known in the employee referral space and certainly echos many of the things that we preach to employers.
The [...]

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Career Networking – The Next Big Wave in Recruiting

Career networking is the next big thing in recruiting. Cachinko redefines career networking through facilitating employee referrals, their applicant tracking system, professional referrals and job postings on their comprehensive career networking platform.

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Great Jobs, but No candidates?? … In this Economy?

After I read this article I found it to be a great read, but bothersome. I come across this over and over again , where companies waste money on job postings. Unfortunately, it happens all the time. The worst part is, it keeps happening. HR departments need to do what my boss tells me all the time, “Step out of your comfort zone”.

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HUSTLE vs. BUSTLE

If you want to jump-start your hiring process, teach your in-house “corporate” recruiter to think like a headhunter.  The ones that survive the dog-eat-dog world of agency recruiting do so for 1 reason -they are dynamite hustlers (and I mean that in a good way)…
Once upon a time, I was in a protracted career search.  [...]

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Unhappy Campers and Opportunistic Hiring in Recession, with Web 2.0

I recently had the opportunity to sit in on a training event for third party recruiters presented by a very well known industry expert.  Having over 10 years of past experience as a staffing recruiter myself, it brought back some memories, some good, and some that reminded me why I am now a “recovering recruiter”.  [...]

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