Given that: Corporate recruiters have access to tens of thousands of active candidates via job boards and specialized career sites. Corporate recruiters have access to information about tens of thousands of inactive candidates via a variety of Web tools ranging from Google to ZoomInfo to LinkedIn. Thousands of corporate recruiters have been certified in advanced sourcing techniques... [full article »]

Last month, DoubleStar conducted a survey to determine the current state of recruiting practices in a cross-section of organizations. The survey was sent to recruiting leaders and decision makers in mid- to large-sized organizations across all industries. The results are not a summary of best practices but a snapshot of current actual practices as they... [full article »]

Over the past few years, the term “recruiting” has increasingly become almost automatically appended with “and retention.” The titles of VP, Director, or Manager of Recruiting & Retention have become pretty common, and many industry commentators clump the two together, almost perfunctorily. [full article »]

One of my favorite recent hot topics in recruiting is employer branding. The concept goes like this: All employers have a brand for the product or service they provide. So, too, they can develop a brand as a place to work. Everyone in the recruitment advertising world stands ready to help us build employer brands, including... [full article »]

Recruiting seems to be an eternal problem for companies. It was a problem in the 80s, in nursing and technology; it was a problem during the widespread economic expansion of the 90s; and it is a problem now in many industries, even with the economy in its current state of retrogression. The truth is that with... [full article »]