LinkedIn continues to be cited as the top online channel for both job seekers and recruiters. Yet, most do not spend an adequate amount of time investing in their online profile. Reasons for this vary from not enough time or knowledge, to the an awareness gap in keeping up with the sites new enhancements and […]

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 […]

The nominations to identify the best of the best in recruiting are in, and it’s crowd-sourcing time! It’s 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 and conference attendees with be casting their votes soon. Voting closes […]

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 […]

When researching the most effective practices on conducting a job search, job seekers can get a lot of mixed messages on what to do (or what not to do) – depending on the who they talk to. HR and Recruiting professionals can be a great source of information, given their roles in the recruitment and […]

In less than 1 month we’ll be announcing the winners of the 2012 recruiting awards, live at the Recruiting Trends Conference in Las Vegas. The awards are for all recruiting professionals regardless of the industry, company, or geography they recruit for, and are open to corporate and agency recruiters. The nomination deadline has been extended through […]

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 […]

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 […]

Yesterday I faciliated a webinar called recruiting secrets overheard in a dark alley, and discussed some of the truths about social recruiting headlines. One of the areas I focused on was the continued glamour of social recruiting given all of the “talk” from experts, analysts and vendors the past few years. The irony is that […]

13 years ago, DiversityInc created the “Top 50″ companies in Diversity globally.  This years results are out, and the Top 50 are listed below. It all started back in 2001, when companies were starting to see business value in diversity as a strategic priority. The companies participating in the survey and assessment from DiversityInc are […]