A week ago SimplyHired celebrated its fifth birthday. That alone is a momentous event, considering how many recruitment-focused startups have come and gone … Read more
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn … Somebody Stop the Music!
No, I am not a hypocrite. I, like millions of people, participate regularly in social networking. I am a proponent of social networking and appreciate the … Read more
CBS Pantses CareerBuilder Over No-Pants Ads
This is a story about pantsing: the yanking down of someone’s pants in front of others. In this case, there are two someones and they self-pantsed … Read more
Ben Gotkin: Recruiting for a Great Unknown
ERE junkie Ben Gotkin (he’s on his sixth straight conference), the national recruiting director for the accounting firm RSM McGladrey, led a … Read more
Announcements From ERE Expo
Jobvite isn’t making a big splash about this, but it has a new social recruiting tool for job seekers. Think of it as a combination of bit.ly, the … Read more
One-to-One Recruiting: The Importance of Personalizing All Aspects of Recruiting
The most powerful recruiting advertisement I’ve seen in the last two years didn’t originate from Google and it wasn’t found on a social media … Read more
Why Recruiting Good People Will Get Harder and Harder
Bill Wall was faced with two choices: take a job he didn’t really find interesting, although he was well-qualified to do it, or continue to try and build … Read more
Recruiting Lessons From the Olympics: Learning From Outside Your Box
You will never become a world-class recruiter if you restrict your learning to benchmarking against other similar corporate recruiting functions. Great … Read more
Succession Planning: More Than Just a Replacement Strategy
There are three reasons to do a succession plan, and identifying a replacement for the CEO and select top executives is only part of one of these reasons. … Read more
The Employer Brand Dilemma
Employer brand is the backbone of any great talent acquisition strategy. However, the advent of social media in recent years has complicated employer brand … Read more