There may be a disconnect between candidates and employers, an incongruence in where candidates and employers spend time searching each other. This is … Read more
Source for Skills Developed Outside Their Day Job — Lessons From the Army’s Esports Team
Recruiters look for job experience and then sort by skill level. But an alternative is to look for “skills experience,” which better reveals hidden … Read more
Hiretual Adds Market Insights and Candidate Personas to Its Candidate Sourcing Tool
Google might disagree, but LinkedIn is the gold standard when it comes to people data. There are a lot of sourcing tools that beat their chest about the … Read more
TextRecruit, Nexxt Partner to Mashup Sourcing With Text Recruiting
Roughly a decade ago, Beyond (now Nexxt) added a little checkbox to its job-seeker registration form without knowing exactly how it would benefit the … Read more
Are You Ready to Recruit in a World Where Microsoft Owns LinkedIn and GitHub?
Love ’em or hate ’em, recruiters and vendors need to get used to the reality that Microsoft now owns the two most popular professional … Read more
Automation, Text Messaging, and Lagging Confidence Showcase Hottest Recruiting Trends for 2018
Hot off the acquisition of TextRecruit by iCIMS, a new recruiting trends report from Bullhorn supports the strength of text messaging to communicate with … Read more
A New Technique in Marketing Has Intriguing Possibilities for Recruiters
What do Lexus and Papa Johns have in common? They’re using cutting-edge marketing tactics that most of the talent-acquisition world isn’t using but … Read more
Security Giant Telling Organizations They’ll Get $400 for a Hire
Allied Universal, the 150,000-employee security company hiring about 50,000 new employees over the next few months, is trying a new spin on referrals, … Read more
This Press Release Contains Numbers You Don’t See Too Often
You may have heard of Crunchbase. It’s the place to go to see things like what companies have raised what money from venture capitalists. … Read more
TextRecruit Raises $3 Million
TextRecruit has raised $3 million in series A financing, led by San Francisco-based investment firm SignalFire. You may not be familiar with the company, … Read more
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 … Read more
The Recruiting Times They Are A-Changin’ (How to Stop Worrying and Love AI)
Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the … Read more
A Cousin of Siri Is Coming to the Recruiting Field
HiringSolved will soon unveil what it considers “Siri for recruiting,” an artificial intelligence assistant for recruiters. His name will be … Read more
Peer-To-Peer Recruiting Really Works — Just Ask Kevin Durant
In case you missed it, earlier this month one of the top recruiting accomplishments of the last decade occurred when the Golden State Warriors successfully … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Pinterest Produces Amazing Diversity Results … Using Proactive Targeted Referrals
By focusing on one type of diversity referral program, within six weeks a firm can dramatically turn around its diversity recruiting … to the point … Read more
Why Does LinkedIn Need Connectifier?
Last Friday, LinkedIn released its earnings statement and clearly the market didn’t like the message, as LinkedIn plunged 40 percent in early trading and … Read more
Use This Free Tool To Calm (and Educate) Your Anxious Hiring Managers
Hiring managers can be impatient. We’ve all had those awkward conversations where we wish we had a better tool to help them understand what we’ve done … Read more
The Most Damaging Strategic Omission in Recruiting — Candidate Research
You Don’t Know Jack … About Your Recruiting Targets If businesspeople ran recruiting … candidate research would dominate! Even though both recruiting and … Read more