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Recent News from Talent HQ
Retarget Job Seekers After They Click and Run
Ask a job seeker, and they’ll tell you it doesn’t take long before they get lost or frustrated online during their job search. For starters the amount of duplicate job content has, at a minimum, doubled in the past year alone. From the tens of thousands of job boards, aggregator sites, and social recruiting approaches, [...]
Top 5 Recruiting Fails for 2011
The story lines were.. The latest and greatest way for you to find a job (if you are a job seeker) or to source and hire a job seeker (if you are a recruiter). Here are the top 5 recruiting #fails of 2011: #5 – Twesume: While twesume was just announced, it’s still 2011. This [...]
HRC – 2012 Corporate Equality Index Rankings
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation has released the 2012 Corporate Equality Index. The 100% ranking carries more weight than in previous years – and is more difficult to attain. 3 years ago the HRC provided participants notice that there would soon be more stringent qualifications for the 100% ranking. How has it impacted employers? Last [...]
Announcing The 2011 Recruiting Awards Winners
Minutes ago at the LinkedIn TalentConnect Conference the 2011 inaugural Recruiting Award winners were announced live – in front of the nearly 2,000 conference attendees and USTREAM viewers. The winners were awarded with $5,000 in cash and prizes, in addition to a contribution to a charity of their choice from Talent HQ. When the awards [...]
LinkedIn Announces Talent Pipeline – A CRM Solution
LinkedIn continues making waves in the recruiting industry. From tripling the number of attendees at this years TalentConnect Recruiting conference (while other recruiting conference organizers struggle), to announcing new products and expansion. The site is approaching 30 billion page views for 2011 as it sets targets on replacing things like Resume’s, business cards and rolodexes [...]
7 Mobile Recruiting Insights
At last weeks mobile recruiting conferene in San Francisco, it was abundantly clear mobile recruiting should be a component of every companies recruiting strategy. Why? Candidates are using mobile and other handheld devices – whether you like it or not. Recruiters from several organizations I spoke with are already experiencing traffic between 5-15% to their [...]
Vote Now: The Best In Corporate Recruiting
The nominations to identify the best of the best in Corporate Recruiting are in, and it’s crowd-sourcing time! Time to vote! The nominations are in for our 3 award Categories (Talent Hunter, Recruiting Innovation, and Recruiting Organization of the Year). Our panel of judges are standing by to weigh in, but their voice doesn’t count [...]
Last Chance For iPad2 – Get Nominating!
RecruitingAwards.com Nomination Deadline Monday September 12, 5PM EST In our final quest to identify the best of the best in corporate recruiting, we’re giving away an iPad 2 for anyone who submits a nomination. The three Recruiting Awards categories are: Talent Hunter – Nominate » Recruiting Innovation – Nominate » Recruiting Organization – Nominate » [...]
2011 Baker’s Dozen: Top RPO Providers
It’s that time of year, where HRO Today announces the top recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) vendors. This is the fifth annual “Bakers Dozen” customer satisfaction ratings – based on customer feedback. The RPO Baker’s Dozen List, was developed from information culled on over 45 RPO providers selected that were reduced down to the final 13. [...]
SmartRecruiters Launches Free Online Recruiting Software
SmartRecruiters today announced the company’s official launch and debuted a free online recruiting software targeted for small to medium businesses. The job posting and applicant tracking Software as a Service (SaaS) comes out of its public “beta” phase with 10,000 companies, 200,000 job seekers and 25,000 job openings already processed, proving that its new approach [...]
Recruiting & The Use Of Video Interviews
A few weeks ago, I began publishing a 4-part article series on video interviewing and recruiting. The previous 3 articles are: The Power of Video Interviewing The Benefits & ROI of Video Interviews Advantages of Video Interviewing This is the 4th and final article in the series, where we’ll explore how you know if the [...]
Top 5 Reasons To Attend The LinkedIn Talent Connect Conference
The recruiting conference scene has had a lot of changes take place over the past several years, primarily the attendance numbers dwindling. The impact on attendance has been driven from two main factors; first is the economy, and the second there are more events to choose from today than ever before. From niche conferences like [...]
