Years ago, John Sullivan was doing some consulting work for W.L. Gore, the makers of Gore-Tex. “You guys are the best story never told,” he said to them. Not any more. Gore will be telling scientists, engineers, and other prospective employees its story by launching a new global branding campaign from Arizona to China with a... [full article »]

Alan Strauss, who’s doing a talent-acquisition project for Lockheed Martin and is well-connected in the D.C.-area corporate recruiting community, talks below about bringing in “A-players” to corporations; what the best recruiters are doing to keep their jobs; and what sorts of questions recruiters should be asking their customers. [full article »]

In case you missed the Summit people are talking about up at Google last week, or just want to go back and take another look, here are some videos and recordings Brendan (poor guy had to stand all day) took. We don’t have all of the videos. Also, since this was live, streaming, video, it’s... [full article »]

Who’s talking about your company? What are they saying about it? How can we influence that? The astute Shannon Seery Gude of the company Bernard Hodes says that employers aren’t always looking in the right place for answers to that question. They’re looking at Google Alerts, perhaps. Maybe Glassdoor. But, she says, they often neglect the... [full article »]

Joshua Kahn (who goes by twitter.com/joshuakahn on Twitter), spoke this afternoon at the social recruiting summit, talking up some of his favorite ways to geek out. Kahn works for Accenture, mainly on the Best Buy account. [full article »]

What’s so great about hiring someone you’ve connected with through social media? Certainly nothing greater than if they were hired from an employment agency, a job board, or a career fair, if they turn out to perform well. But with a hat tip to Sacha Chua, some of the advantages of social media are: [full article »]

From this morning’s “unconference session” at the Summit, about “demystifying” social media recruiting and trying to figure out if it’s working. [full article »]

The recruiting profession, just beginning its use of social media, will be among a handful of professions that will need to quickly adapt to the big changes happening right now in business, or be in big trouble, LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman told me after his keynote at today’s Social Recruiting Summit. Recruiting, journalism, business development, and... [full article »]

As the summer’s gathering of social-media-using recruiters kicks off at Google’s headquarters in Silicon Valley, recruiters at DaVita, KPMG, CO-OP Financial Services, Burger King, California Pizza Kitchen, and the University of California we talked to over the last couple of weeks say that social media is an ongoing experiment, one that in some companies... [full article »]

Robert Johnson, Morningstar’s associate director of economic analysis, talks about whether the economy really is improving, when unemployment may peak, the U.S. government’s economic stimulus package, wages, raises, and more. [full article »]

Pete Kaiser, CEO of the Kaiser Group, talks about how recruiters can benefit from dollars allocated in the recent government stimulus package. Kaiser, a former recruiter who operates “one-stop” shops for the government; explains how employers can use the government to find everyone from military veterans to IT employees. [full article »]

Rick Fletcher, of HRchitect, talks about: Which recruiting-technology vendor is the “red-hot category killer” How the economy’s doing, when it comes to the recruiting field What ever happened to Vurv customers How to tell if your potential vendor is in bad shape Vendors such as SAP, Workday, Deploy, Taleo, Kenexa, iCIMS, nowHIRE, SilkRoad, HRsmart, and others What Kronos is doing right Buying... [full article »]

Sodexo recruiter Angela Guidroz and I talk about: Recruiting veterans Whether Sodexo has actually hired anyone who it connected with via social media What to do with fewer jobs and more time Personal lives and corporate lives on Twitter [full article »]

We’ve heard people talk about the challenges of recruiting with social media — you may come across information that’s discriminatory, and shouldn’t be used to make a hiring decision, such as that a job candidate is pregnant or hoping to become pregnant. But what happens when employers find information on Facebook or Twitter they may object... [full article »]

I saw a list that Publishers Weekly ran of publishing-industry employees who’d been laid off. And I thought: we need to do this. For recruiters. There’s no need for anything fancy — we know that a lot of people are recently out of a job and want to make it easier for as many recruiters as... [full article »]

From the department of maybe-things-are-getting-less-bad: “layoffs, hiring freezes, and salary freezes may have finally peaked” in the U.S., Watson Wyatt says. Watson Wyatt’s survey this month of 141 employers shows that 26 percent of employers plan to increase cost-cutting initiatives over the next 12 months, way down from 51 percent who said so in February. Of... [full article »]

Most people coming out of schools “don’t really want to build bridges when they grow up,” says Andrew McCarty. McCarty, sourcing manager at the infrastructure/construction company Parsons, is trying to address this recruiting challenge partly by spreading the good Parsons word through social media. McCarty, along with Yahoo’s Carmen Hudson and TMP’s Louis Vong, is... [full article »]

Companies are increasing pay 2.8% this year, down from a projected 4%, according to the Hay Group. That’s according to a survey released today, taken in March, of top HR and reward executives in medium- to large-size organizations across a range of industries. Here’s what else is being done to hold down compensation costs: [full article »]

The feds are reminding U.S. employers that the new I-9 goes into effect today. If you’ve got a form that says on the lower right that it was revised 2/2/09, you’ve probably got the right one. The documents allowed are also new. A 65-page handbook for employers is available by clicking on a PDF online. I’ve... [full article »]

While at least one economist, Martin Feldstein, is quite pessimistic about the chances for a U.S. economic recovery, others were more cheery today. [full article »]