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Hope your Memorial Day was a good one. We’re still waiting for the official start to summer here in Portland but that doesn’t mean we can’t give you some of the great things posted recently.

Here’s what’s going on in the ERE community this week:

1. Top Three Concerns of Recruiters Using Twitter (Resolved)
2. Don’t Forget Complex “Boolean strings” Just Yet
3. Indeed.com — Finally Playing with the Big Boys
4. On The Beach and Out of Home
5. Stop Looking for the Silver Bullet
6. Why Won’t You Hire Me? Part 3 – It’s a Gamble

1. Top Three Concerns of Recruiters Using Twitter (Resolved)

Ali Webster posts an interesting piece on the common concerns among recruiters using Twitter. She says, “A few weeks ago, I held a roundtable discussion with recruiters on their opinions of and experience with social media sites. Mentioning LinkedIn elicited a positive response and Facebook stimulated a robust discussion about balancing their personal and professional lives. When I brought up Twitter, one of the recruiters responded “eh…” and another shrugged her shoulders (sigh).”

Read through to see her top three concerns and how she resolves them.

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A little over a month ago, I announced the launch of ERE.net’s new community. Since then, we’ve received a lot of great feedback on how we can make a good thing even better, and I wanted to share a couple of the new things we’ve been working on.

One of our goals with the new community is to reach out to the entire recruiting profession to participate in our conversation, not just those who visit the website each day. (Don’t worry — we’ll always love you best!) To that end, we’ve opened up the conversations on ERE.net in a couple of new ways. keep reading…