Recruitment tech vendor MrTed is being acquired by StepStone Solutions, a global talent management provider based in the United Kingdom. The sale gives … Read more
Taleo Grows Revenue; Beats The Street
HR software vendor Taleo grew its revenue and customer count during the second quarter of this year and though it also grew its net loss, the company beat … Read more
Initial Outreach For Sourcers
I’ve been asked several times over the course of my research career to share examples of my initial email outreach to prospective candidates after … Read more
Sourcing and Plato’s Cave Allegory
Plato was was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution … Read more
How to Recruit LeBron James … a Case Study on Recruiting a Game-changer Employee
Recruiting history was made this month. You may not be aware that last week marked the culmination of the most sophisticated recruiting effort executed in … Read more
Facebook Apps Cover Both Sides of Recruiting Coin
Hire My Friend to Work For Us. Sorry if that sounds like a weird request, but I just couldn’t resist the verbal mashup of two, sort of new Facebook … Read more
How #SocialRecruiting Is Changing Sourcing
Yesterday I received a notification from Jobvite that the results to their 2010 Social Recruiting Survey were available. This is a topic of great interest … Read more
Needles and Haystacks
We’re finally turning a small corner in this awful economic situation. Several of our industries are starting to see hiring picking back up. But … Read more
Effectively Managing Your Research Projects
When I first started my career as and Internet Researcher, I realized quickly that a big secret to being a good researcher was developing an efficient … Read more
How Microsoft Does Social Recruiting
How does Microsoft find the talent to do cool things like develop a gaming platform, or perhaps make that platform operate without a controller like … Read more