Ok, so you are getting 25,000 new applicants each month and your jobs are still open. Well that must suck. You would think gobs of applicants means you are doing great at Talent Acquisition, right? The reality is that most Recruitment departments detrimentally rely on Applicant Tracking Systems and multi-post job board tools, thinking they have [...]
Big ATS Syndrome: 25,000 New Applicants & My Jobs are Still Open!
by Felipe Villasenor on November 17, 2010 in Article
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 [...]
Career Networking – The Next Big Wave in Recruiting
by Felipe Villasenor on April 23, 2010 in Article, Career Networking, Newsletter
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.
Great Jobs, but No candidates?? … In this Economy?
by Anthony Morrison on November 13, 2009 in Article, Newsletter, Uncategorized
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”.
HUSTLE vs. BUSTLE
by Felipe Villasenor on April 27, 2009 in Article, Newsletter
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. [...]
TruReferral Partner Beta Program Launch
by Felipe Villasenor on April 22, 2009 in Announcements, Article, Newsletter
Cachinko, a market leader in social referral recruitment, has
launched a revolutionary new social networking platform:
www.cachinko.com Cachinko.com helps companies increase the
number of referrals they receive and hires they make through their Employee Referral Program (ERP). Unlike other social networking sites, Cachinko was built specifically for recruiting through our patent pending Talent Network technologies and TruReferral [...]
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