Jonah Manning

Six Must Have Ingredients for Filling the “Hard to Fill” Req’s

Even sourcers who push the envelope have hard to fill reqs that are collecting dust on the aging reports. It happens, and probably more frequently then we care to admit. When it comes to filling the “really” hard to fill searches having these ingredients in place will usually create a positive outcome. Use this guide [...]

April 7, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 Easy Ways to Improve Candidate Engagement

by Jonah Manning

According to many thought leaders (me included) the emerging battlefield for sourcing & recruiting is no longer the ability to find great talent, but rather the ability to engage them. Here are some easy to adopt ways you can improve your candidate engagement ratios and separate your opportunity from the noise. Kill the Stogy Job [...]

March 13, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Things to Consider When “Selling” a Candidate

by Jonah Manning

There is a lot of chatter in the air about the industry of sourcing shifting away from its legacy as experts in search toward its future of experts in engagement. So when you start unpacking what it means to “sell” a candidate here are some things to consider. You still have the cookie. It wasn’t [...]

March 10, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Future for Sourcers Is Bright

by Jonah Manning

Anyone who has been sourcing heavily since 2006 knows that the landscape for sourcing has changed. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. Thanks to social media networks like Linkedin with now over 200 million professional profiles, locating viable candidates for searches has never been easier. The funny thing is, the very same site [...]

February 18, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Better Candidate Experience = Sustainability For Us All

by Jonah Manning

Recently I observed a candidate experience that went something like this; the recruiting team was pushing for a self imposed deadline for an interview day. A couple days before the ‘big day’ a few of the candidates that had been through the normal and fairly rigorous screening process needed to reschedule. To meet the SLA’s [...]

January 27, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 and 1/2 Non-Linkedin Based Sources on Finding Candidates

by Jonah Manning

When your Linkedin InMails run out, your inbound applicants just are not cutting it, and you need some additional resources to try an find candidates here are a few ideas to try that just might help you find some great people. About.me AOL’s About.me is a free service that lets people create eye pleasing, single [...]

January 13, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Recruiting Predictions for 2013 and Beyond

by Jonah Manning

It’s already that time of year again to make some predictions about what’s in store for next year. With 2012 coming to a close, let’s look back at some of the things that changed the recruiting landscape. More social media sites have entered our recruiting peripheral vision, like Pinterest. We have started to take Facebook [...]

December 9, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

4 Talent Attraction Tactics That Wastes Time

by Jonah Manning

Talent Attraction & Recruiting Tactics That Don’t Matter We are in the midst of a pandemic sweeping over recruiting departments in almost every industry. Stealing time and precious resources from Talent Attraction budgets. Many staffing leaders right now are planning on what they will do different in 2013 to make staffing even better then 2012. [...]

November 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

4 Ways Sourcers & Recruiters Can Show Recruitment ROI

by Jonah Manning

Recruitment and Sourcing ROI If you look at the trends within recruiting on sites like Angel.co that are offering recruiter free job boards it shows that people find recruiters and sourcers less lovable than stockbrokers. Even though we are still more lovable then used car salesman its important that sourcers and recruiters put a little [...]

November 11, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

10 Common Social Recruiting & Internet Sourcing Myths BUSTED

by Jonah Manning

Busted! Common Social Recruiting and Internet Sourcing Myths As a former dark horse of the recruiting world (I think we’re past those days though, right?), social recruiting and internet sourcing have had plenty of time to accumulate some big, big, myths. Myths some staffing leaders and recruiting managers have held onto because, well, it’s just [...]

October 21, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 Tips to Boost Your Email Recruiting Results TODAY

by Jonah Manning

Email Recruiting Powerful Internet Sourcing Tool Email recruiting can be a very powerful lever for generating candidates within your arsenal of passive sourcing tools. While I think most of us can agree that email is still alive and kicking, many marketers that struggle to leverage it effectively for candidate development think its a dead resource. [...]

September 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

8 Reasons Your Company Career Page Sucks Big Time

by Jonah Manning

I Set Up My Company’s Career Page . . . Now What? Let’s say that a couple of months ago, you decided to really start drinking the authentic recruiting Kool-Aid, and you took the plunge. You set up your company’s career page that showcases your corporate culture, benefit perks, and organization. You started producing great [...]

August 26, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

3 Recruiting Tips to Make Social Media Effective & Exceptional

by Jonah Manning

We’ve all heard about this crazy thing called social media. When it comes to recruiting job seekers and the candidate experience, social media offers the good as well as the bad for your end user. As a sourcer and recruiter, I’ve found that social media is more than a candidate source or hack, but an [...]

August 12, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Rock Star Google Internet Sourcing Tricks

by Jonah Manning

Even if you are not in a dedicated sourcing role, you probably use Google several times a day. However, unless you are a sourcer, rocking searches on a “by the minute” basis, you are likely using Google in its face value form. If your current use of the world’s favorite search engine is typing a [...]