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 [...]

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 [...]

April Fools’ Day is widely celebrated around the world on April 1 every year. While it’s not a national holiday, it is the one day when people pull pranks or play jokes on friends, families, neighbors, and co-workers. According to Wikipedia, the earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness can be found in Chaucer’s [...]

Minutes ago at the LinkedIn TalentConnect Conference the 2011 inaugural Recruiting Award winners were announced live – in front of the nearly 2,000 conference attendees and USTREAM viewers.  The winners were awarded with $5,000 in cash and prizes, in addition to a contribution to a charity of their choice from Talent HQ. When the awards [...]

At last weeks mobile recruiting conferene in San Francisco, it was abundantly clear mobile recruiting should be a component of every companies recruiting strategy. Why? Candidates are using mobile and other handheld devices – whether you like it or not. Recruiters from several organizations I spoke with are already experiencing traffic between 5-15% to their [...]

RecruitingAwards.com Nomination Deadline Monday September 12, 5PM EST In our final quest to identify the best of the best in corporate recruiting, we’re giving away an iPad 2 for anyone who submits a nomination. The three Recruiting Awards categories are: Talent Hunter – Nominate » Recruiting Innovation – Nominate » Recruiting Organization – Nominate » [...]

The recruiting conference scene has had a lot of changes take place over the past several years, primarily the attendance numbers dwindling.  The impact on attendance has been driven from two main factors; first is the economy, and the second there are more events to choose from today than ever before.  From niche conferences like [...]

About 6 weeks ago we shared the news that a new recognition and award platform for the recruiting industry would soon be unveiled.  The RecruitingAwards.com site is now live, and the team is gearing up for the inaugural awards (in corporate recruiting) which will be announced live at the upcoming 2011 LinkedIn Talent Connect Conference [...]

Recognizing and awarding recruiters and talent acquisition organizations is no new concept.  This approach is.  When it comes to identifying and selecting the best of the best in recruiting, this Recruiting Awards site is taking a slightly different approach. In about a month, RecruitingAwards.com will fully launch and re-define being selected as a leader in [...]

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 [...]

It’s conference season..  The OnRec recruiting conference in Chicago came to a close earlier today, as Recruiters gear up for SourceCon and ERE’s fall Expo. Here are 7 takeaways from the event: