This is a Social Recruiting Roadmap Presentation I gave at a conference recently. There’s no single answer for the roadmap that’s right for you. Of course, you should get inspired by what smart folks like the people at Intuit are doing, but there’s no single answer – the roadmap you build has to meet YOUR organization’s social…
Historically, sourcers and recruiters sometimes felt like solo warriors, valiantly crossing boundaries and fighting battles to find the best talent for their companies. Thankfully, social technologies are letting them build trusted networks of referrers, connections and colleagues that make this much lighter work. Accessing the social networks of our peers and other company employees opens…
If you are recruiting in technology right now, you know there are some really hot skills out there. Python, Ruby on Rails, Hadoop – you name it (well, if you can, sometimes you’re looking for skills you can’t even pronounce!). You search LinkedIn, your internal databases, a bunch of external websites, but it’s hard to…
Social sourcing tools can give you a detailed picture of each candidate that goes far beyond the credentials he or she lists on a resume. Let’s face it, the resume and CV are designd to present an individual in the best possible light and have gone through numerous edits. These one-page documents don’t truly indicate…
There’s an old story about an orchestra that was looking to fill a position. They were forever selecting men and wanted to change this. Therefore, to ensure they were unbiased in their search, they decided to have applicants walk out on stage behind a curtain before performing. This way they wouldn’t see them. In search…
There is something to those “best place to work” contests you see creeping into major cities and nationwide initiatives. When you’re hunting for top performers, that kind of employer branding could really tick in your favor. Employer branding. Let’s talk about that. Most commonly, branding is a term used in marketing. Branding situates your product, your…
The state of the job market in recent years has caused HR professionals in some industries to be bombarded with massive numbers of resumes from job seekers. Some potential applicants, in a desperate attempt to find a job more quickly, have taken to submitting their resume everywhere they can find. This has added to the…
LinkedIn is now an indispensable part of every recruiter’s tool belt. However, it suffers from the same affliction as all social media sites; it may end up telling you more about what the profile owner wants you believe than about who they really are. The stakes for both recruiter and job seekers are very high…
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal describes a shrinking U.S. work force. The labor force participation rate has fallen to 63.2%, the lowest it’s been since 1978. First of all, what does this mean? Second of all, where is everyone going? And finally, what does this mean when you’re hunting top performers? Labor Force…
According to a recent survey, social recruiting is becoming a staple in human resource departments. A well-crafted social recruiting strategy enables companies to find and keep top talent. Of over 1,600 responders, 94% reported that they either currently use social recruiting or plan to use social recruiting to find qualified candidates. So apparent are the benefits, that…
“Employers can see what you do online,” they said. “Remember, everyone can use the internet,” they said. “If you put that online, someone will find it,” they said. Our parents may have been warning us against posting photos they deemed inappropriate or giving out our addresses to strangers, but they were right. If you put…
Too often, employers lean heavily on the major three social media sites–LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter–to identify a candidate bank. And let’s face it, LinkedIn is the most heavily leaned on by a mile. If that’s where you are staying, it’s like picking your apples only from the closest farmer at the market, not necessarily from…
Recruiters and businesses are strained hunting top performers with the technical skills to drive future growth using the advanced tools that are now available. It turns out that the key to doing so is understanding that the technical world has a culture all its own. The Terms on the Resume or Profile Only Tell Part…
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