Employee referral programs are consistently at the top of the source-of-hire list. Refer a friend to your employer, and if they get hired, you get paid. For over a decade, startups hoping to capitalize on this win-win-win transaction have tried…
Social Sourcing & Recruiting
Need Top Performers? Hire Candidates With a Strong Professional Network
Actionable Tips for Hiring Those With Powerful Professional Networks Everyone knows the power of networks. But many hiring managers and recruiters are surprised to learn that the strength of someone’s professional network is also one of the strongest predictors of…
Yes, It’s Time to Add Snapchat to Your Recruitment Advertising Radar
Get off my lawn! Snapchat’s recent IPO has me feeling crotchety and crusty. A company that exudes youthful optimism has unfortunately brought out my cynical side. “This stock will be trading at $12 in a year,” I said to anyone who…
How to Recruit on LinkedIn, Fast, Without Breaking the Bank
Recently I discussed the slowdown in tech hiring, which is already reflected in today’s longer and more difficult hiring cycles as hiring managers are more selective with the quality of candidates. Recruiting and job seeking has become significantly more challenging as…
The Many Benefits From a Talent Pipeline – And How It Improves Quality of Hire
If you’re looking for a powerful strategic recruiting approach that has powerful long-term impacts, you really only have two choices: employer branding, and a “recruiting talent pipeline.” While almost every major corporation is investing heavily in building their employer brand,…
Your Talent Pipeline Needs a Roto-Router Because It’s Not Producing
A comprehensive name-capturing guide for identifying who should be in your recruiting pipeline Let’s get straight to the point: having an external recruiting talent pipeline is a powerful tool but almost no one does it well. You can tell if…
eSports — An Under-the-Radar Social Media Community That Recruiters Should Use
The dream of every corporate recruiting leader is to discover a phenomenal secret source that few in recruiting are even aware of. That recruiting source would ideally be a social media community, so its members would be “social savvy.” The…
U.S. Workers Rely First on the Internet When Job Hunting
Americans are as likely to turn to the Internet when searching for a job as to their friends and connections, and many of those who do consider the Internet more important than any other resource. That’s one of the surprising…
SHRM Survey: 2/3 of Companies Made Social Media Hires
Two-thirds of all companies have sourced new hires in the last year from social media. And, no surprise here, LinkedIn is the most popular site for making hires. A survey out this morning from the Society for Human Resource Management shows…
How Recruiters Can Benefit From Reddit
Fishing out talent has never been easy, and with ruthless sourcing by employers from job communities on social media it has become even more competitive. But, one of the most fun and useful platforms of them all is the less-traveled road…
The Most Buzzed-about Social Recruiting Posts of the Week
Social media recruiting is on the rise, with 93 percent of organizations now using at least one social channel for talent acquisition. I recently analyzed the latest data and found some of the most popular recruiting content on Facebook, Twitter,…
Signs That It’s Time to Get Your Brand on Snapchat
When I first heard about Snapchat, it was from younger colleagues of mine urging me to create an account and join in on the fun. My first response, “Isn’t that just for sending nude photos that you think will disappear?”…
The Most Buzzed-About Social Recruiting Posts of the Week
Organizations of all sizes are finding more success with social media recruiting. I’ve sifted through the latest social recruiting data and found some of the most popular posts on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Here’s how brands engaged job-seekers with social…
Employers Need to Become Career Newsrooms
Factset, Sodexo, Amtrak. These companies all have one thing in common when it comes to marketing themselves to job seekers. They all create large amounts of content distributed via social media that is geared toward prospective candidates. Today’s job seeker…
Jobcase: a Place for Those Not at Home on LinkedIn
In a world of 100,000 (more or less) job boards and their socially focused progeny, there’s one for practically every occupation, industry, and personal interest. The few big players — Indeed, CareerBuilder, SnagAJob, SimplyHired among them — count their monthly…
Don’t Be a Talent Brand Soloist. Be the Chorus Master
Your company’s talent brand ?most? influences whether candidates accept or decline your job offers, according to our ?Talent Trends 2014 ?survey of more than 18,000 professionals across 26 countries. Yet, according to our ?Global Recruiting Trends 2015 ?survey, merely half…
Marketing v. Recruiting: Who Owns Social Talent Acquisition? You Be the Judge
Bailiff: The District Court of ERE will now hear the case of Marketing v. Recruiting. Marketing: May it please the court, we believe that an organization’s Marketing department should own its social media recruiting channels. Marketing professionals have experience in…
Why Social Media Will Become Harder, and Other Talent Acquisition Trends
Millennials, generation Z, and social media: three predictions about how the recruiting and talent landscape will change. Read on: As millennials enter managerial roles, workplace dynamics are sure to shift. The millennial generation is one of aspiring leaders: globally, nearly…
4 Ways Content Beats Social Media in Recruiting Quality Candidates for the Long Haul
It’s the end of the year and that means that if you aren’t thinking about the tactics for next year, you’re definitely reviewing the past year to see what worked and what didn’t. I love this time of year, because…
Getting the Big Picture: Visual Content Is Critical to Building Engagement
Lately the fastest-growing social networks are those that emphasize visual content. Instagram is the fastest-growing social network, followed by Tumblr and Pinterest. Data from Statista shows that people spend more time on Pinterest (1 hour 17 minutes per month) than…