Challenging business environments are often times of personal growth and professional success if you can navigate them effectively. Most importantly, the recruiting function has an opportunity to demonstrate value additive strategy, behavior and tactics. On November 16, 2008, join Susan Burns as she will be facilitating a workshop designed to enhance the Talent Function value […]

By Jason Buss. Nearly 3 1/2 years ago John Sullivan wrote an article on ERE called “The Best Recruiting Strategy is the we Find you Approach“.  There are still so many relevant points today with the two strategies he outlined – “you find us” and “we find you“. While some would argue there are more […]

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 […]

I’m looking forward to another great recruiting conference in November from Kennedy Information.  Besides the sessions, content, speakers, and networking, it’s going to be a little warmer in Orlando than in Minneapolis! This will be my sixth time attending a Kennedy event, including the Spring recruiting conference on May 14th and May 15th. On November […]

I am thrilled to share the results of the blog post, but first would like to thank each of the participants who submitted a post.  The posts – and the content – received great feedback, attention, and great dialogue on several sites. The top 2 posts each received over 700 unique visits, and there was […]

48 hours left! Help out the writer of your favorite post by sharing it with your network. 11 writers entered the inaugural Talent Buzz Blog Post contest. Here are the standings (based on the number of unique visitors to their post): How I Used Twitter to Get Meetings with 3 CEOs and a VP of […]

iCIMS Named to the 2008 Inc. 5000 List of the Fastest-Growing Companies Software-as-a-Service provider ranks in the top 23 percent of the list, with a three-year growth rate of 325% iCIMS, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of talent management platforms announced this month that the company has been named to the 2008 Inc. 5000 list […]

Principles for Defining a Successful Sourcing Strategy September 10, 2008. 2pm to 3pm, EST. Recruiting over the web is not just about adopting new and better tools. Fundamentally it involves a shift in our attitude towards candidate lead generation. Online sourcing does not just provide new technology but results in a restructuring of the recruitment […]

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 […]

By Jason Buss. What started as a blog post – “What Would Happen if Job Boards Were Obsolete?” turned into one of ERE’s hottest discussion board posts. Be sure to sign up and tune in for the free ERE Webinar this week on “Are Job Boards Obsolete”? Date: August 27, 2008 Time: 2:00 PM – […]

Networking was never one of my strongest skills. I am sometimes shy when it comes to meeting new people, and as a 23 year old who is just two years out of college, I don’t have much of an address book or LinkedIn network (but I have a ton of Facebook friends). The first stage […]

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” […]