CareerXroads released its annual source of hire report this week and, as usual, the report is full of information about the broader talent acquisition … Read more
Reaching Tomorrow’s Workers Takes a Multichannel Approach
To reach tomorrow’s corporate leaders, companies today not only need to have robust career sites, but they need to be as multichannel present as are … Read more
Social Recruiting: Marketing’s Secret Weapon
It’s not often talked about, but your company has a secret weapon when it comes to social media marketing: you. HR, though not traditionally considered a … Read more
The Last Social Network: The Future of Social Media
We are entering a time of social fatigue. A recent survey from Pew Research found that 61% of current Facebook users have voluntarily taken a break from … Read more
Don’t Forget These 5 Recruiting Skills in the Social Recruiting Fervor
Recruiting, as many of us know it, has undergone a transformation in the last few years. In fact, there are recruiters coming in to the workforce now who … Read more
Getting Better Results With Twitter
Using Twitter as a recruiting tool appears to be deceptively simple: develop a large following and start tweeting. Simple enough, but success doesn’t come … Read more
What’s Missing From Facebook’s Graph Search
I’ve been using Facebook’s much-vaunted graph search for about a month now, having been on the list for early users. The feature was launched with much … Read more
You Need to Start Responding
In a recent study, only 14% of customer tweets sent to a brand received a response. That is like not picking up the phone when a customer calls, or worse, … Read more
Social Media and Short Attention Spans
Since the beginning, Twitter users, including me, have at times been stymied and frustrated by Twitter’s seemingly arbitrary character limit, which … Read more
How to Recruit for a Lousy Company
One time, at cheerleading camp in Texas, one of the camp counselors asked us, “What do you do if your football team is the worst in the district?” The … Read more