Sourcing

Hiring is NOT an Impulse, It Is an Investment

If you worked for a small company and were presented with a purchase that was going to cost $5,655 how careful would you be in making your decision on that purchase? Would you shop around and see if you were getting the best value? Would you check and see if you were getting a quality [...]

May 28, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Summer Jobs: 3 Tips For Hiring The Best Workers

by JoshTolan

As the weather heats up, it’s time to start thinking about finding the right people for your company’s summer jobs. Summer workers are a good way to assist your regular employees at a time when more temporary labor is available in the workforce. The forecast for summer hiring is heating up just as much as [...]

May 19, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Interviewing Candidates for Customer Service Jobs

by Stephanie Hammerwold

Companies like Google and Microsoft have made difficult interview questions famous. Why is a manhole cover round? How would you design an evacuation plan for San Francisco? These questions can be good for tech companies and other places that want to hire employees who can come up with creative solutions to complicated problems; however, such [...]

May 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

8 Things To Look For In A Job Candidate’s Social Media Profiles

by Heather R. Huhman

Social media profiles can tell you a lot about a job candidate. More and more recruiters, now 86 percent, view a job candidate’s social media profiles during the decision process. It’s important to use these resources not just to look for red flags, but for items showing a candidate’s likelihood to succeed in your organization. [...]

April 12, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Your Staff Can Become an HR Referral Source

by Eric Friedman

The power of an employee referral is well known in the recruiting industry. A recent poll of business showed that 41.4% of businesses referrals account for 80% of sales. From a business perspective that is an overwhelming number in terms of dollars earned from word of mouth marketing. Through the eyes of an HR professional, [...]

April 11, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

4 Advantages of Temporary Workers

by Lynn Dixon

Forty percent of employers plan to hire temporary and contract workers, compared to 36 percent last year, according to AOL Jobs. In addition, the flexible job market is also one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, which means job seekers can expect more opportunities in the near future. There are some real advantages [...]

April 11, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

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

by Jonah Manning

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 →

Why You Want to Hire SWANs

by shannonsmedstad

Before working at GEICO, I was employed by a Bethesda, Maryland-based association that served the finance profession. While there, I wore several hats: compensation analyst, employee relations, HR training and recruiter. Of all the aspects that I was responsible for, I loved recruiting best! The association was made up of a lean team of 60 [...]

March 25, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Ways to Spot a Good Recruiter in the Rough

by Perri Gorman

Today we are living a world with high unemployment on one end of the spectrum and companies starving for top talent on the other. Combine this with the low barrier to entry to become a recruiter (thanks to platforms like LinkedIn) and it being a highly lucrative profession and we have the birth of the [...]

March 18, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Some Great Recruiters are Born. Others are Made.

by shannonsmedstad

Some great recruiters are born, but others can be made … and we all have opportunities to improve. If you are looking for ways to become better at your profession, I say, “Kudos to you!” But, where to start? With more than 11 million search results on Google for “how to be a better recruiter,” [...]

March 11, 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 →

16 Handy Twitter Recruiting & Hiring Hacks [Infographic]

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Recruiting, Sourcing & Hiring with Twitter A couple weeks ago, I outlined 5 new ways to search and recruit on Twitter sharing some of their recent changes to their platform because Twitter is offering some new short cuts to their platform when it involves search and sourcing for a potential employee. Keep in mind that [...]

March 5, 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 →

Don’t Be a LinkedIn “Don’t”

by Stacy Donovan Zapar

Every now and then, I’ll be networking on LinkedIn when I’m suddenly reminded of the “Fashion Don’t” page at the back of Glamour Magazine. You know, the one where the poor, unsuspecting victim is walking around committing some fashion faux pas with a little black box covering her eyes to conceal her identity. And just [...]

February 18, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Recruiters: Stop Recruiting on Pinterest!!

by Blake McCammon

I recently read an article on the 5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Recruiting and I just sat there in awe thinking why? Why are recruiters wasting their life away pinning in hopes that job seekers will find their board and be so enamored by pictures that they would apply for a specific job? Two [...]

February 13, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Dicky Fox and the Recruiting Trenches

by Ray_anne

From the Trenches of Day-to-Day Recruiting He usually listened in the hallway; I knew he was there. He walked past my desk, often. He collected my call sheet every single day – the one with at least sixty hash marks. He made sure that I received the printed call log from the software embedded in our phones – keeping me [...]

February 13, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

7 Things You Need to Know About LinkedIn Search

by Stacy Donovan Zapar

You’ve built your LinkedIn profile, updated your work experience and education and you’re all set to launch your job search, land new clients and/or grow your business. But how do you stand out from LinkedIn’s 200 Million other members? How do you make sure that people and opportunities can actually find you? It all comes [...]

February 4, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How the New Facebook Graph Could Benefit Recruiters

by shannonsmedstad

I was on the waiting list for the new Facebook Graph Search feature. This week, the Beta version went live on my profile and I am trying really hard to figure it out. At first glance, it doesn’t seem to be conducive to actually searching the expansive online world of Facebook. Though the more I play around [...]