“The Recruiting Department is where data goes to die.” This sentiment was shared with me during a recent conversation related to one of the many sourcing technologies flooding the market. It was the opinion of this person, that the idea of data driven recruiting and the reality of data driven recruiting simply don’t match up. Ultimately, his point was that only a very small percentage of corporate recruiting departments have the resources to analyze the [...]
Somehow it seems that job scams and social media are all too often turning up in the same articles, if not sentences. While job scams exist and can be devastating to your personal identity and finances, the reality is that they are few and far between. There is much more fear about scams than there are scams. And although that is certainly true, we all know that it only takes one bad experience with a [...]
…start by making a list of regular activities that you can post within your blog. These could include things such as weekly new job posting updates, announcements of employee of the month awards, profiles of current employees and managers, and regular posts on tips or advice for future applicants. I’ve used a simple Excel spreadsheet and this seems to work just fine
In this post on RecruitingBlogs.com, Jeff Dickey-Chasins puts forth the following question: Is social recruiting a symptom – or a solution? Jeff does an excellent job of quickly defining and arguing the two sides, though I don’t believe either answer can fully define how social recruiting has developed. I don’t actually believe that social recruiting, as Jeff has identified it, actually exists in any meaningful way at the moment. The most common way that employers [...]
Do you keep hearing the term social recruiting or social media recruiting, and wonder what all the fuss is about? Are you still skeptical about the actual value of social media with regard to recruitment activities? Or maybe, you’re on board but just not sure about the first move. Well, regardless of which bucket you place yourself in, today’s your lucky day. Consider this your primer for understanding the foundation of recruiting through social media; [...]