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The award comes with a $10,000 prize. It was selected by three judges: ERE Media Founder David Manaster, Greylock Partners Talent VP Dan Portillo, and Universum Founder Lars-Henrik Friis Molin. The judging panel considered in its decision the results of an audience vote done via text message (judges and the crowd each received a 50-50 weighting).

Friis Molin says the Smarterer tests are “perfecting themselves” through crowdsourcing. (Here’s more on Smarterer.) He sees it as one of the potential future gold standards in the assessment field. David Manaster said he tried the test and found it as fun as Smarterer claimed. He also said that given Smarterer’s “consumer approach” he also thought the test could be a future gold standard.

It was the elite of an elite group of new tools and technologies rolling out for recruiting departments, including one that would help companies hire teams (vs. individuals); another that would add a one-page candidate proposal to the application process; and another that would help companies create mobile careers sites. And more.

Meanwhile, two other companies were also winners at the event. (more…)

The info covers cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities. (more…)

If you don’t know the company, it automates candidate feedback. So it asks job seekers what they think of your brand, whether they are satisfied with their experience as a candidate, their preferred interests/channels for job seeking and career content about your company, and more. One of its clients, G4S, has used the information it has gathered to improve recruiter skills, and refine its brand messaging.

Anyhow, back to what it’s up to. (more…)

But — setting aside the definition of these communities in the first place — who exactly might be part of such a group?

Ascendify Founder & CEO Matt Hendrickson says there are five different categories of people who could be community members: (more…)

LinkedIn’s

That LinkedIn mother lode will keep growing, says Jon Bischke, founder of Entelo. But so will the rest of the world’s information — information that we won’t be putting into LinkedIn. (more…)

Perhaps that won’t be the case this year, says Toby Dayton, from the job search engine LinkUp. Dayton is “cautiously optimistic” about a decent second, third, and fourth quarter of 2013.

Dayton, speaking at the Recruiting Innovation Summit in San Francisco, gives these three reasons for his optimism, based on LinkUp’s data showing growth in job posts and recruitment advertising: (more…)

The hot social-network-meets-job-board-meets-database-meets-media-company announced two things for recruiters. The first is “CheckIn.” This one’s for managing candidate info at an event; candidates stop by your booth, give you their name and email address, and you use “Recruiter” to manage the information, such as sending follow-up emails to candidates. CheckIn’s getting fully rolled out in July.

The other new one is called “social campaigns.” The deal with this change is that recruiters used to send updates to their company followers from a company page. Now they can do that straight from “Recruiter.” This “helps them better track responses,” LinkedIn’s Joe Roualdes tells me.

A LinkedIn product launch at one of its events is usually a pretty sure bet. (Then again, so is a frequent LinkedIn product launch not at one of its events, like the recent revamp of “LinkedIn Today.”) Other LinkedIn additions through the years have included its “brand index” and “sponsored jobs”; “jobs for you”; follower stats and targeted updates; the “Pipeline” tool; the “Recruiter” product and various improvements; and more.

The Denver company has been working on its launch since about November of 2011. Employers (offerings are summed up briefly here) broadcast their jobs from their applicant tracking system or career site. Job seekers upload and send resumes to employers.

Of course, that’s just one of a long list of new companies, betas, updates, and so on. Here are a few more: (more…)

Futurestep (a recruitment outsourcing company owned by Korn/Ferry) started thinking about this about a year ago, and has had an internal technology team working on it. It’s “high-end, graphical, display analytics,” Bill Sebra says.

Sebra is Futurestep’s North America president. He says the company’s global clients wanted more data — more real-time data. You may have “the people in China running something different from the folks in North America” when it comes to HR software, he says. “If you’re the chief talent officer, it becomes very difficult.” This challenge can be multiplied if you’re a company with, say 8-10 different firms you bought, all around the world. (more…)

That’s the message the retail industry wants to get through as part of a new campaign it’s launching.

The centerpiece of the campaign is a new website at the “thisisretail.org” address, a highly visual page meant to show that the industry is dynamic and exciting; a field, for example, that’s for you if you’re an artist, a designer, or a marketer.

The National Retail Federation will be gathering stories of people who’ve had good careers in the industry, and trying to spread them on social media sites. It’ll also advertise in print, on the radio, and online to play up retail careers.

This one comes from the “Great Place to Work” firm, maker of the Best-Companies-to-Work-for list that gets a lot of press at the beginning of the year.

This new search engine is called “Great Rated.” It gives you information on a company, and pulls in from Facebook and LinkedIn who I might know at my desired employer (as you see, I tried Whole Foods).

The site also includes a job search, through a relationship with Simply Hired.

Check it out here.

Marie Artim is the talent-acquisition VP and a long-time veteran of the company. It has about 200 recruiters based geographically — fairly decentralized like the Enterprise company as a whole. There’s no dedicated social media team with a separate budget. Some of the company’s recruiters, Artim said today at the ERE conference, embraced social media early; others are “terrified” of it.

Whether in Europe or the U.S., there are five aspects of Enterprise that its recruiters want candidates to come away with after they’ve interacted with the company on social media sites. (more…)

They all took the stage today as the winners of the prestigious ERE Recruiting Excellence Award were announced. Ernst & Young was among the big honorees, taking home multiple honors. Onboarding as a category was a first this year; its winner, Veterans United Home Loans, beat out the well-publicized and quite-impressive-itself H. Bloom. Dell won with a simple, clean site in the career website category.

Sodexo USA’s team was named the department/function of the year in the larger-company category.

Here’s the complete list:

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It came up with an uncommon answer, one its recruiting director Brendan Browne talked about at today’s ERE conference in San Diego. (more…)

Here are two short videos from them, one telling a short story about package deliveries, and what is says about the hiring process; the other about the tooth fairy. (more…)

Indeed’s mobile-device traffic has more than doubled over the past year, and a third of its searches are coming via mobile. Here’s what its data is showing: (more…)

The app is (appropriately) called “Marriott Jobs in Europe,” and is in English, French, German, and Russian. It features stories of the hotel’s general manager, sales, housekeeping, and other employees consistent with the company’s theme you read about in December.

Evviva Brands helped develop the app, which is particularly targeted toward younger audiences. (more…)