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2014 Global Social Recruiting Activity Report: Top 5 Trends Worth Watching
Bullhorn recently released their fourth annual Global Social Recruiting Activity Report, detailing the activity of both candidates and recruiters across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and...
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LinkedIn: Why The InMail You Know Is On The Way Out
We’re nearing the end of 2014, and it seems a good time for a reminder that the InMail is in for a makeover. In case you missed it, beginning January 1, 2015, LinkedIn is making some core changes to...
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Ello: Is There Anybody Out There?
Unless you live under a rock (or at least somewhere far from Silicon Valley or social media), you’ve probably been unlikely to escape all the coverage recently devoted to the launch of the new social...
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What Corporate Recruiters Really Want From A Staffing Agency
Let me be really clear here to start this post off: I’m not hating on staffing agencies. In fact, far from it. I actually grew up on the agency side; I cut my teeth there. I made my bones there. And I...
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What Staffing Agencies Really Want From Corporate Recruiters
After writing about what corporate recruiters really want from staffing agencies, it only seemed fair to turn the tables and discuss what those on the other side of the aisle really want from those of...
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Top Recruiter: Reality Bites.
Candidate experience, Top Recruiter Style Well, my friends – I suppose it was inevitable. After all, for years we’ve been hearing recruiters use stupid superlatives and specious self-descriptors like...
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Friend or Faux: Why It’s Time for LinkedIn To Get Real.
For weeks (actually, no, make that months), I’ve sat back and watched a pretty interesting phenomenon unfold. It’s nothing new, of course, but it’s a hell of a lot more prevalent – it seems like the...
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Once In A (Recruiting) Lifetime: This is 40.
As I sit here, dedicating a few of my first full 24 hours as a 40 year old to this post, I realize that I’d spent the last four days figuring out what the hell, exactly, I wanted to write. After all,...
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Zen and the Art of Candidate Maintenance.
Recently, thanks to the remarkable and inimitable Amy Ala, I was lucky enough to score ringside seats for a fascinating follow up conversation to a seemingly simple question a candidate had posted to...
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Border Wars: Tech Recruiting and Immigration Reform.
I’ve spent the equivalent of the last four full presidential terms stuck in the tech recruiting trenches. For the manifold changes manifesting themselves in the talent acquisition and technology...
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Closing the Skills Gap: How Immigration Reform Impacts HR and Recruiting.
In my most recent Recruiting Daily post, Border Wars: Tech Recruiting and Immigration Reform, I took a look at the persistent H1B visa cap problem plaguing employers, particularly within the technology...
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Candidate Experience for Dummies.
Everyone seems to be talking about candidate experience these days, and the noise surrounding this perennial talent trending topic has become deafening, even though most of that banter ultimately falls...
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Fuzzy Math: Why Time to Fill Sucks.
Oh, “time to fill.” If you’re a recruiter, the very mention of this metric is enough to send shivers down your spine; after all, it’s been used for years now to beat recruiters into complete submission...
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No Time for Losers: Why We Love To Hate Recruiters.
Pick any trending topic that’s top of mind in recruiting right now, from the candidate experience to onboarding. Chances are that once you strip away all the unnecessary layers of BS, buzzwords and...
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The Rise and Fall of LinkedIn: A Recruiting Requiem.
There’s nothing new about M&A in the HR Technology Industry; after all, big fish swallows little fish is how most top tier talent vendors have ended up so bloated they can hardly move, much less...
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LION Hunting: Why “LinkedIn Open Networkers” Deserve to Be Shot.
I hate to kick someone when they’re already down. In fact, I’m surprised I can, all things considered. Seriously. For all the shit that’s been talked about LinkedIn on this site over the years (present...
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5 Things Every New Recruiter Needs To Remember.
I’ve been at this recruiting thing for almost 16 years now, and I can’t say that I knew I’d be doing what I do for a living in my 40’s. And it’s always good to take stock of your life and path when...
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LivingSocial: When Networks And Culture Actually Work.
The terms “network” and “networking” have a rather nebulous definition, depending on who you ask; of course, for so many in our spam infested, hypersocial and intrinsically interconnected world,...
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Spam: She’s Crafty
Licensed to Ill is a record that changed everyone’s mind about what hip-hop was, especially coming from three white guys from NYC. Now mind you, I’m no hip-hop historian. I’m a 40-something white guy...
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Sin City: Hacking Candidate Conferences
Under normal circumstances, I would not find myself within several hundred miles of Las Vegas at the beginning of August. I guess I’m a creature of habit and prefer Sin City at the start of the NCAA...
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