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.
Job Search or Job Leads?
by Felipe Villasenor on September 21, 2010 in Career Networking
Job search is becoming meaningless as recruiters are increasingly relying on social networking, career networking and employee referral programs. Job seekers need to get job leads from professionals and get referred to job openings. Here are job search tips for job seekers from Cachinko.
Employee Referrals – The Safe Way to Hire
by Felipe Villasenor on September 16, 2010 in Career Networking
It is never safe to hire a candidate with a reference check. Employee referral programs to a great extent can reduce the burden of the referral screening process and reduce the cost of recruitment. Take your employee referral program to your social network with Cachinko.
Avoid the Hiring Deal Breakers with Career Networking
by Felipe Villasenor on September 13, 2010 in Career Networking
With social media playing an growing role in hiring decisions, building your career network is no longer optional. Career networking gives you the social recruiting edge and can help you land that elusive job. Find out how in this social media recruitment article by Cachinko.
Social Recruiting? What’s That?
by Felipe Villasenor on September 9, 2010 in Career Networking
Social media recruiting, social recruitment and recruiting through social media are today’s HR buzz words. Even if have taken the trouble to build your social network of potential employees, are you sure you are leveraging every social media recruiting channel?
Scratch that, Job Boards will die
by Felipe Villasenor on July 22, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
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 [...]
Referral Recruitment – The current Paradigm Shift
by Felipe Villasenor on July 16, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
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 [...]
SEO for Job Sites, Still not Enough – Right On Microsoft!
by Felipe Villasenor on July 12, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
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 [...]
Create your Talent Community before employees exit
by Felipe Villasenor on July 8, 2010 in Article, Career Networking
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 [...]
Why do Employee Referral Programs matter in a recession?
by Felipe Villasenor on July 7, 2010 in Article, Career Networking, Newsletter
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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