Internet has opened up a plethora of opportunities and has been a major platform for information dissemination. With increasing accessibility the … Read more
Mentors and Professional Networking: Why You Need Both to be Successful
This month’s webinar topic on Professional Networking and Mentors is such an important one for people searching for relevance and opportunities. We talked … Read more
Sourcing: The Next Sexy Thing
Even Chris Brogan thinks that you’ll still need skilled people to analyze and manage data in the future. In a recent post on his blog, Brogan goes … Read more
New Study Shows How Mobile Learning Has Gone Mainstream
You knew it was coming. It was only a matter of time before mobile devices like cell phones, smart phones, PDAs, iPads and the like invaded every corner of … Read more
Using LinkedIn Groups to Source Effectively
Have you looked on LinkedIn lately in the Groups that are dedicated to job-related networking? You know all those people that put: Looking for an … Read more
StartWire Makes the Black Hole Less Dark
With upward of 60 percent of job applicants saying they never hear from the companies to which they apply, you’d think some enterprising recruiter … Read more
Referrals Lead; Social Media Thrives; Job Boards Survive as Hiring Source
Job boards are far from dead. For the second consecutive year, internal transfers and promotions were the primary source of hire. A quarter of the … Read more
LinkedIn InMaps: A Sourcer’s Perspective
Earlier this year, LinkedIn launched a lab project they’ve called LinkedIn InMaps. According to the post on their blog, InMaps is an interactive … Read more
Twitter and Jobs Celebrate Birthdays
An early Happy Birthday to Twitter. And a Happy, if somewhat belated, Birthday to TweetMyJobs. The former will be 5 yearsold in a week; the latter is now … Read more
The Power of an Alumni Network, and 3 Reasons You Need to Consider One
What typically happens when an employee leaves an organization? The employer and employee share a few laughs, celebrate the good memories and begin to … Read more