The Talent Buzz
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20 Competitive Intelligence Tools For Recruiting
Great recruiters and researchers use competitive intelligence in a variety ways to advance their organizations talent acquisition efforts and results – from industry information, company research, organizational charts, employee information, labor market information, and overall trends. Recruiters that lead the way use competitive intelligence to position and drive influence with their hiring leaders. And sure, while the best researchers have as many cell phones and numbers as they do accents... |
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Glassdoor Leverages Facebook and Launches Inside Connections
Glassdoor is the only site that offers professional networking, job listings and reviews and salary reports in one place – and they represent more than 150,000 companies including 100% of those that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Fortune 500 and the S&P 500. Minutes ago they announced the launch of Inside Connections. The new product will leverage Facebook to help job seekers quickly uncover if they know someone at a company where they want to work. I had a chance... |
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The Reality of Online Recruiting in 2012
Remember 15 years ago when the experts were scaring everyone with “the war for talent”? Saying by 2010 unemployment would be at historic lows? How about a little over a decade ago when job boards and applicant tracking systems would forever change a recruiters life (and make it simpler)? Or when 8 years ago when your corporate career site was touted as one of your most significant recruiting assets? Or 4 years ago when social recruiting was “in”. Through the evolution of... |
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Retarget Job Seekers After They Click and Run
Ask a job seeker, and they’ll tell you it doesn’t take long before they get lost or frustrated online during their job search. For starters the amount of duplicate job content has, at a minimum, doubled in the past year alone. From the tens of thousands of job boards, aggregator sites, and social recruiting approaches, who can blame them. Corporate career sites have long been the answer to engaging and converting site visitors to candidates (or applicants). With all of the technology... |
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Top 5 Recruiting Fails for 2011
The story lines were.. The latest and greatest way for you to find a job (if you are a job seeker) or to source and hire a job seeker (if you are a recruiter). Here are the top 5 recruiting #fails of 2011: #5 – Twesume: While twesume was just announced, it’s still 2011. This is yet another example of a waste of time for both job seekers and recruiters. #4 – The Online Recruiting Transformation: Huh? When you don’t hear about something for a year after it’s... |
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HRC – 2012 Corporate Equality Index Rankings
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released the 2012 Corporate Equality Index. The 100% ranking carries more weight than in previous years – and is more difficult to attain. 3 years ago the HRC provided participants notice that there would soon be more stringent qualifications for the 100% ranking. How has it impacted employers? Last year, 337 companies earned 100% rankings, and for 2012 the number dropped significantly to 190. A few examples of the heightened requirements for... |
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Is Monster BeFlating BeKnown?
4 months have gone by since Monster.com launched BeKnown, the career networking app on facebook that many experts predicted would make a significant impact in the recruiting space (some called this a game changer). Fast forward to today (albeit only 4 months), what’s the growth, outlook, and adoption? According to a story published on Recruiter last week, David Henry, vice-president of media and digital marketing EMEA for Monster, provided the following information: Since its launch in the... |
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Announcing The 2011 Recruiting Awards Winners
Minutes ago at the LinkedIn TalentConnect Conference the 2011 inaugural Recruiting Award winners were announced live – in front of the nearly 2,000 conference attendees and USTREAM viewers. The winners were awarded with $5,000 in cash and prizes, in addition to a contribution to a charity of their choice from Talent HQ. When the awards were announced earlier this year, a unique crowd-sourcing element was the unique element compared to other awards in the industry. Thousands of votes... |
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LinkedIn Announces Talent Pipeline – A CRM Solution
LinkedIn continues making waves in the recruiting industry. From tripling the number of attendees at this years TalentConnect Recruiting conference (while other recruiting conference organizers struggle), to announcing new products and expansion. The site is approaching 30 billion page views for 2011 as it sets targets on replacing things like Resume’s, business cards and rolodexes with business intelligence. Some say the powerhouse has transformed recruiting. How? With the ability... |