Part one of my conversation with Susan Burns focused on opportunities and trends within talent management.  Part 2, posted here focuses on social media and social networking, metrics, and the candidate experience from a recruiting perspective. Jason: There continues to be an emphasis and talk about the use of social media and social networking in […]

One of the great outcomes of spending time on social networking sites like twitter is the opportunity to engage with and meet people worldwide.  Earlier this year I met Susan Burns – first online, and then a few months later in-person at a Conference. Since then, I’ve grown a tremendous amount of respect for her […]

50 Ways to Take your Blog to the Next Level Blogging is as varied in its applications as using the telephone or taking a picture. The tool doesn’t predict the output. You might be using your blog to post recipes, or to inform the local community about information you find elsewhere on the web. Maybe […]

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 […]

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 […]

Willy Franzen, founder of One Day, One Job posted:  Use Facebook Ads to Make Employers Hunt You Down and reveals results from an experience on using Facebook for job searching. Check it out, and join the dialogue on his site.  Willy’s post “How I Used Twitter to Get Meetings with 3 CEOs and a VP […]

5 (free) tools to cure your Social Network Fatigue and get your life back! Are you… Busy? Someone who finds value in Social web stuff? Overwhelmed with the myriad of social networks and web 2.0 doodads? Not wanting to be left out, but want a life too? Feel slightly guilty even taking time to read […]

I’m a prolific blogger, video maven, twitter lover and chat junkie. I also like to attend conferences, parties, barcamps, Tweetups, you get it. I’m a networker. I believe that has a lot to do with recruiting people (since I meet a lot of them through allll these mediums). Anyway, as I “put myself out there” […]

According to an article written by Selena Dehne of Jist Publishing 83% of recruiters leverage search engines to uncover information about potential candidates. But, did you know that these same candidates are conducting the same type of research on you? Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there that feel recruiters have a bad […]

Most of you would be familiar with this trend. You make some great friends at work and develop this fantastic sense of camaraderie with them when one of them decides to leave and go on to another job. You have a tearful farewell party for them and sign their goodbye card with an endearing message […]

Social Networking is a Friendship Paradise but what is Social Networking? Most of us are part of Social Networking Websites. This post is for the people who don’t know the importance of Social Networking or for those who are not members of these social networking websites. Social Networking is one of the greatest things that […]