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 […]

LinkedIn announced today on their blog a “follow” feature for company profiles.  In addition to the announcement today, LinkedIn has enabled several features for profiles that are a clear move towards a more social platform.  Check out the entire announcement here. As an example, last week LinkedIn announced an easy way to share news with […]

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.

As LinkedIn gets closer to its’ 7th Anniversary this May, the professional networking site is picking up steam on College and University Campuses world-wide.  The site surpassed 55 million users in December, 2009.  Their members span all 7 continents and 200 countries are represented.  A new member joins every second. So what’s next for the […]

Written by Rob Pitingolo for The Talent Buzz blog post contest. In light of the increasingly tight job market, I have been hearing phrases like “it’s all about who you know” and “networking is the name of the game” a lot lately. There is certainly truth to the claim that knowing people who work for […]

With the recent LinkedIn launch of applications, you now have the options to install and use applications for communicating and collaborating with your LinkedIn network. Box.net has launched an application for the LinkedIn platform, enabling members to significantly enhance their profile with content from their Box.net accounts and collaborate on project files and folders with […]

LinkedIn announces more ways to interact with your network.  The new features include ways to create projects and collaborate, share information, customize your profile, and gain key insights. Work collaboratively with your network. Box on LinkedIn: Share files and collaborate with your network. Huddle on LinkedIn: Private workspaces to collaborate with your network on projects. […]

By Jason Buss. After writing on the candidate experience, I recently caught up with a few tweeps, including @CarolineBoegel, @robpitingolo, @arwilliams, and several other job seekers to get additional insights on what their experience has been from a candidates viewpoint. 5 trends that quickly emerged included: Applying for a job on-line is cumbersome, time consuming […]

Employers Lurking Online We know employers and recruiters use social networking sites to vet job candidates and even see what current employees are up to. Now we have a better insight into how they’re using that information, according to a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management. Since 2006, there has been a 17 […]

About a month ago, we were introduced to several enhancements for LinkedIn Groups. Since then 13,624 new groups have been created, bringing the total number of LinkedIn Groups to 134,685. As an owner of one group, and the member of a dozen more, you wouldn’t know anything has changed.  I also did a quick scan […]

You’ve heard it before… LinkedIn has over 21 million professionals worldwide representing 150 countries, and is receiving over 9.5 million unique visitors monthly. Did you know the power networking site has 121,051 groups? The biggest advantage in belonging to a group (a majority of them) is the ability to search, contact, and network with other […]

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 […]