Today must be the day must be the day to challenge a lot of conventional thinking about recruiting, HR, and the use of social media in both of those … Read more
Time To Face The Facts: Social Media Sourcing Is Social Media Screening
A year ago, I did a presentation and I asked how many people Googled a candidate or checked their social profiles. Many of them had and one of them said … Read more
LinkedIn Beefing Up, Buying Contact Management, Search Provider Firms
LinkedIn will pay somewhere around $13.4 million in stock for two companies it acquired this month, according to a filing with the SEC. The exact price … Read more
Sourcing’s Facebook Foursome
Have you noticed that Facebook now has four professional networking apps? First we were introduced to BranchOut, then BeKnown made a splash at SHRM, … Read more
Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend? CareerBuilder & BranchOut to Take On Monster’s BeKnown
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows. Maybe the same could be said for competition? Monday at the annual HR Technology conference in Las Vegas, … Read more
HR Tech: Silkroad Point Measures Social Media Presence, Jobvite’s New Facebook App
Two big vendor announcements kicked off the 14th annual HR Tech show in Las Vegas this morning. And if these are a sample of what we’re going to be seeing … Read more
Sourcing and the Mobile Future — Reaching Your Audience
At the Mobile Recruiting Camp conference today in San Francisco, the Mobile Marketing Association’s North America Managing Director, Michael Becker … Read more
LinkedIn Hosts Obama; Jon Stewart Mocks LinkedIn
The President came to California this week to do a little fundraising and hold a jobs town hall meeting. Neither of those were particularly noteworthy … Read more
Facebook Changes Its Look; You Should Change Your Facebook ‘Recruiting Strategy,’ Too
The Facebook changes announced last week at the developers conference, and those in the weeks before, have major implications for the way employers use the … Read more
Monster’s BeKnown Tightens Integration With Facebook
A European version of BeKnown’s iPhone app was released today by Monster, the latest in a string of enhancements and features the company has been … Read more