Talent communities are all the rage these days in online recruiting Hardly a day goes by in recruitment blogs, e-newsletters, and at industry conferences … Read more
Dice’s Open Web Shines A Light On All IT Talent
Dice unveiled a new interface for recruiters this morning that streamlines the way candidate profiles are presented, adds some extra bits of data about … Read more
Why Cold Outreach Will Always Prevail Over the ATS
Applicant tracking systems are wonderful. They help you post a job to your own site and to many job boards, track submissions, and bring up those … Read more
4 Recruiting Behaviors That Limit the Quality of Who You Hire
Talent acquisition — despite the mass adoption of new tools and technologies to make the process data rich and workflow friendly — remains a major … Read more
Top Warning Signs When You Have a Time-Wasting Candidate
After 15 years in the career services, human resources, and candidate recruiting business, I have a pretty good “nose” for which candidates will get the … Read more
Beyond the Keyword and Past the Social Media Referral to Find Purple Squirrels
Rob Dromgoole had a search worthy of a SourceCon Challenge. One of the teams at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where Dromgoole’s director of … Read more
Is Content Searching the Future of Social Recruiting?
Rob Dromgoole had a search that would challenge any recruiter. He needed to find a purple squirrel who also spoke Japanese. Dromgoole is director of … Read more
‘Who Do You Know?’ Is the ‘Post and Pray’ of Employee Referral Programs
At the Fall ERE Conference, Sean Rehder and Craig Campbell shared the secrets of their employee referral program. I was excited to see how they had applied … Read more
New Dice CEO Says Open Web Sourcing Tool Is Key to Future
Dice Holdings, operator of multiple niche job boards, changes leaders next week, when current CFO Michael Durney takes over as CEO and president. Chairman, … Read more
How to Sound Like A Sourcer
If you really want to tell how good at sourcing someone really is, the first task to assign them should be to find a recent, relevant and comprehensive … Read more