Just over a week ago at the Society for Human Resource Management’s annual conference (#SHRM11), blog posts and articles about the latest product from Monster.com, called BeKnown, were swarming the web. Many were calling the app “game changing”. I weighed in and share an alternative point of view, “BeWare of BeKnown“.  Shortly after publishing it […]

You probably haven’t heard about it yet (it just launched), but it’s big news in the human resources and recruiting space.  Writers are enthralled with another new shiny object in the social recruiting space, called BeKnown. It’s almost like building networks, brands, and referrals online or within a social network is a new concept. While […]

It’s been a couple of years since we’ve seen a HR / Recruiting web site (community) for sale via auction.  The last was in late 2009, when HRM Today sold on ebay for $4,075 (the site had 1,200 members at the time). Until today…  RecruitingBlogs.com sold via auction on Flippa for $95,000. This is the […]

Today was the final day at the Multicultural forum on workplace diversity, and I had the opportunity to co-facilitate a session with a friend and colleague, Roycie Earvin. We focused our time on discussing social media – and the impact to diversity recruiting.  Attached are the slides from the presentation: Diversity Recruiting – The Impact […]

Conference season is in full swing. I am looking forward to a session I am co-facilitating tomorrow called “Social Media – The Impact to Diversity Recruiting”. It’s at the 2011 Multicultural Forum on Workplace Diversity, in Minneapolis. In building out the content and research for the topic, a lot of information has been published from […]

Work4 Labs is working hard to develop innovative recruiting products based on their conviction that Facebook is essentially the world’s largest collection of data-rich, constantly updated resumes.  Their results:  In only a few months, their clients have generated over 4 million job views and received 100,000+ applications via Facebook. Work for us offers a suite […]

Jobvite’s solutions have already been adopted by companies including Starbucks, Twitter, Zynga and Yelp. Earlier today they announced they are advancing their technology solution to deliver real-time recruiting intelligence to optimize the sourcing and hiring of talent. An intuitive, personalized dashboard built into the Jobvite recruiting platform now integrates all the relevant data from any […]

There are many opportunities for both HR professionals and Recruiters to engage in (and leverage) social media (coming out your mouth with your blah blah blah) – both personally and professionally. But buyer beware, don’t just fall for the hype (zip your lips like a padlock)– and be sold worthless goods. If you filter through […]

We call it the candidate experience.  You call it BS.  We call it employment brand.  You just want respect. The first job board was launched in the early 90’s.  Some experts state there are now more than 40,000 job boards.  Add in publisher networks, blogs, and communities and the number quickly surpasses 100,000.  To me, […]

An exclusive for The Talent Buzz community, which has not yet been published broadly.  It’s the 2010 Trends in Recruiting Report from LinkedIn. The report is free, and contains some great information on overall trends related to recruiting budgets, passive candidate recruiting and pipelining, the use of social media, and more.

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In Lewis Carroll’s famous novel, Alice was a precocious child with her own idiosyncrasies. In my imagination, Alice did not fall into a rabbit’s hole into Wonderland. She was thrown into the 21st century instead. Within a year, she became the most famous Twitterer ever. How did Alice fit in the Twitter scene? With these […]