Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don’t Use Social Media Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word “twitter?” Are you trying to reach […]

uBoast Brings Job Seekers, Providers, and Matchmakers Together (The Startup Review). Create video resumes, build long-lasting relationships, and utilize a streamlined recruiting process increasing the ease of communication. uBoast is a professional networking site that specializes in enhanced virtual resumes, video profiles, real-time video interviewing, contains a job board pooling openings from throughout the entire […]

I am thrilled to share the results of the blog post, but first would like to thank each of the participants who submitted a post.  The posts – and the content – received great feedback, attention, and great dialogue on several sites. The top 2 posts each received over 700 unique visits, and there was […]

The Best Places to Launch a Career To lure and keep young talent when cash is tight, companies of all stripes are appealing to Gen Yers’ ambitions for speedy advancement—and their desire to do good while doing well. Best sites for hunting jobs Recently I asked you to share which Web sites had become indispensable […]

48 hours left! Help out the writer of your favorite post by sharing it with your network. 11 writers entered the inaugural Talent Buzz Blog Post contest. Here are the standings (based on the number of unique visitors to their post): How I Used Twitter to Get Meetings with 3 CEOs and a VP of […]

iCIMS Named to the 2008 Inc. 5000 List of the Fastest-Growing Companies Software-as-a-Service provider ranks in the top 23 percent of the list, with a three-year growth rate of 325% iCIMS, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of talent management platforms announced this month that the company has been named to the 2008 Inc. 5000 list […]

Principles for Defining a Successful Sourcing Strategy September 10, 2008. 2pm to 3pm, EST. Recruiting over the web is not just about adopting new and better tools. Fundamentally it involves a shift in our attitude towards candidate lead generation. Online sourcing does not just provide new technology but results in a restructuring of the recruitment […]

The weekly recruiting blog poll results are in from last week. The question: How would you rate your organization’s adoption of social media in branding overall, and for recruiting? The results: It’s a struggle (64%) Slowly but surely (28%) Ahead of the curve (8%) From several conversations I’ve had, this continues to be a slow […]

Get into social network recruiting. By 2010, US business will be short 10 million workers. In the European Union, there will be a shortage of at least 300,000 IT employees. And in Japan, prospects for skilled labor are so dim that some companies are even encouraging fertility treatments. The global war for talent is a […]

By Jason Buss. 11 writers entered the inaugural Talent Buzz Blog Post contest. Here are the standings (based on the number of unique visitors to their post): How I Used Twitter to Get Meetings with 3 CEOs and a VP of Recruiting in 2 Weeks, by Willy Franzen 5 Free Tools to Cure Your Social […]

Managing the Millennials: Getting the Most Out of This Generation of Twenty-Somethings, an exclusive offer for The Talent Buzz Readers, from Intern Bridge.  Use the coupon code “talent” during checkout, and receive 20% off. Click here for registration. Presented by: Alexandra Levit, Business Consultant, Speaker, and Author September 17, 2008. 1pm to 2pm, EST. ——————————————————————————– […]

The US unemployment rate is on the rise – to its highest level in nearly five years in August as the economy shed jobs for the eighth consecutive month. The economy lost 84,000 jobs in August. The economy has now lost 605,000 jobs since January. Economists have said the economy needs to create about 100,000 […]