There has been a lot of talk the past few years about “the shift to mobile” from recruiting leaders, with a primary focus on effectively managing the mobile experience. Examples of solutions have primarily focused on the mobile optimization of a career site to some larger employers building apps. While these and other areas are [...]

2012 was a great year in recruiting.  After attending several recent events and networking with recruiters, recruiting leaders, and job seekers now is a great time to reflect back and publish what we’ve recently heard as the top 7 recruiting #fails in 2012. #7 – Recruiting with Pinterest:  Gag.  Enough said. #6 – Mobile Recruiting: [...]

LinkedIn continues to be cited as one of the top sites for sales professionals, recruiters, and job seekers. Is the site continuing its’ explosive growth? LinkedIn recorded 4.2 billion professionally oriented searches on the platform in 2011 and is on pace to surpass 5.3 billion in 2012. Additionally, they’ve added 1,000 employees this year. Yeah, that’s [...]

It’s a hiring managers dream. To have their recruiter source and sell a “passive” candidate on the req. Right or wrong, candidates get labeled from passive to active and everything in between. The reality is there is a group of candidates not looking for their next opportunity. Entelo, a talent search engine which is launching [...]

Recruit Co. Ltd., a Japan-based HR services and consumer internet firm has acquired the job search site leader, Indeed.com.  Indeed will continue to be led by its current management team and operate as an independent subsidiary of Recruit. Indeed launched 8 years ago, and in that time became the #1 job search site with 80 [...]

The stage is set for the 2nd annual recruiting awards program, and the RecruitingAwards.com site is open for nominations through Friday, September 21st.  Winners for 2012 will be announced live at the Recruiting Trends Conference in Las Vegas next month. The awards are for recruiting professionals regardless of the industry or company they recruit for, and are [...]

The topic of Facebook launching a job board this summer has received a lot of attention the past couple of weeks.  From stating a Facebook job board could kill LinkedIn’s momentum - to quoting 92% of recruiters are using social media to recruit talent. Have recruiters hired people through Facebook or have job seekers found a job through [...]

On Tuesday, July 10th, I will be co-facilitating a 30 minute webinar with Ty Abernethy from Take The Interview.  We will be sharing how to get the most out of video interviewing and video-based recruiting, in addition to addressing some of the most common objections about the use of video from HR and recruiting professionals. [...]

Over the past 15 years, I can count the number of times on one hand that I’ve seen some real possibilities created with a new product or service in the $120+ billion recruiting industry. Today is one of those days. After spending some time with recently with Kevin Grossman, an industry professional I met 5 [...]

For years companies have tried reinventing Resume’s. 4 years ago VisualCV launched but has since been acquired. ResumUP is one of the newer entries into the online Resume space and is still in beta. Their slogan “go visual, get visible” says it all. The premise is simple, an infographic Resume will get you noticed. Will [...]

A couple of months ago we shared the 7 warning signs for Monster.com. Fast forward to today, Monster is preparing to send financial information to interested parties for a potential sale. Is LinkedIn one of them? One source says LinkedIn expressed an interest, another says they withdrew it, and a third states that Monster or Bank of America [...]

In the past 18 years Monster.com has grown from 7,000 job postings to over 1 million, and  with an estimated market for online recruitment at more than $5 billion, Monster’s share is estimated at 23%.  So how does that compare to others? CareerBuilder.com’s share is an estimated 32%, and LinkedIn’s is an estimated 16% This [...]