By Dr. John Sullivan & Master Burnett Over the past six weeks, we have attended eight large conferences that focus on or relate to talent acquisition. … Read more
Will Google’s 10% Holiday Pay Raise Cool The 6-Figure Counteroffers?
How much would you pay to keep a superstar who has another offer? How much if the employee was just a star? Before answering that you might want to take a … Read more
Employers Think Vets Are Great. They Just Don’t Hire Them
Amidst the rah-rah news yesterday about the drop in unemployment claims, little notice was paid to another one of the data points in the weekly report … Read more
New Sourcing Tool Will Show Supply of Talent
In about two weeks, Wanted Technologies will beta-launch a new service for employers to estimate how many potential job candidates there are in a given … Read more
LinkedIn’s Hiring Practices – A Chat with Brendan Browne (Video)
We’ve covered hiring practices at Twitter (parts 1 and 2) and Facebook already, learning how each of them approaches hiring talent to their companies … Read more
Intel Planning Next Steps With Social Media Recruiting
Intel is trying to tie together a sprawling network of social media recruiting efforts to achieve more consistency, get more recruiters involved in social … Read more
CareerBuilder Can Do For You What You Should, But Haven’t
CareerBuilder unveils a new service today for harried recruiters who know they should have a talent network, but just haven’t found the time to … Read more
What You Wish You Could Tell Candidates
I’m always hearing recruiters say they want to be more helpful to candidates. I wonder. I wrote the following with the idea that it might help some express … Read more
Strong Jobs Report Shows Private Sector Picking Up Steam
In a stunning reversal of fortune, the U.S. economy added 159,000 private sector jobs in October, the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics reported this morning. … Read more
Jobs Numbers Seesaw as U.S. Awaits BLS Report
Yesterday we had the Yin (or was it the Yang?) of economic data, offering some hope that the U.S. is indeed climbing out of the jobs hole of the last two … Read more