As Recruiting professionals, we’ve likely all experienced the dreaded back-channel reference that goes south. You’ve sourced and engaged a candidate where there’s a unanimous “yes” from the interview team and then the hiring manager completes a back-channel reference. After hearing mixed feedback the hiring manager wants to cut ties and move in a different direction. These back-channel […]

Yesterday we shared 20 Mobile Recruiting Insights from #mrec13, and we’ve added another 25 below. 2013 MOBILE RECRUITING STATISTICS: 62% of PASSIVE job seekers will explore a company’s career page on #mobile 40% of mobile candidates abandon a non-mobile friendly apply process 1 second = 7% increase in drop-off Active job seekers look for opportunities […]

It’s #mrec13 time, the only conference focused exclusively on mobile recruiting and technology. The event this year is being held at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Atlanta – with 2 days worth of great content planned. Congratulations to Michael Marlatt and team for putting together another great event! If you have a chance […]

  Minutes ago at the Recruiting Trends Conference the 2012 Recruiting Award winners were announced live. This marks the 2nd year for RecruitingAwards.com.  These awards remain unique based on the crowd-sourcing element compared to other awards in the industry.  Thousands of votes were submitted online from recruiting practitioners, Recruiting Trends conference attendees, and the panel of […]

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 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:

The 2nd Annual Talent Buzz event in Minneapolis was held yesterday, on Lake Minnetonka.  Once again, the intent behind the event was to create an opportunity for HR and Recruiting leaders to talk about trends, opportunities, share successes, challenges, and of course network… An opportunity beyond a conference without formal one-sided presentations, recycled content, or […]