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
Close the Talent Gap These 6 Ways
CEOs are frustrated. According to a ManpowerGroup survey, 34% of companies are experiencing difficulty filling mission-critical positions. Paradoxically, … Read more
Multimedia’s Place in Recruiting
Many search engine marketing experts today agree that videos and images drive more traffic in search engines than simple text-related results. In fact, a … Read more
Source of Hire Survey: Employers Up Their Use of Outside Agencies
With the worst of the recession behind, employers are again turning to outside recruiters for help filling their more challenging positions. In the annual … Read more
How to Create a Sourcing Strategy
While confusion seems to reign among recruiting leaders on how to build effective sourcing strategies, Donna Quintal at Sears Holdings Corporation has been … Read more
LinkedIn: Top 5%, Recommendations, and Endorsements
I was talking last night to a friend of mine that is just finishing up her MBA from Tepper at Carnegie Mellon, and she was asking my opinion on the value … Read more
Does Sourcing Require a Master’s Degree in Library Science? Not Any More!
I’m dating myself but in the early 90’s I found myself in graduate school pursuing a degree in Library and Information Science. At this time, there … Read more
Yep, Sourcing is Alive and Well
Recently Dr. John Sullivan wrote an article for ERE that has created quite a stir in the recruiting world. He talks about a couple of issues, but the one … Read more
Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
Editor’s note: This post was originally published in 2011. Due to the timeless nature of the content, it was the most popular post of 2013. I firmly … 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