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 […]

LinkedIn continues its’ explosive growth on many fronts.  From members on the site, to the number of employees.  Some recruiters consider LinkedIn as the tipping point in recruiting with their database. Here are a few examples of their growth – and recent statistics: LinkedIn now has over 100 million members. 1 million new members join LinkedIn […]

8 months ago we shared a post about the opportunity to leverage LinkedIn for Campus Recruiting. Now, as LinkedIn surpasses 80 million members this is even more of a reality. With LinkedIn’s Career Explorer, available at 60 Universities in the U.S. as part of the beta, students now have the ability to explore different career […]

Over the past month at a couple of networking and educational sessions I’ve had the opportunity to spend time with 50 other Fortune 500 Recruiting Executives and Leaders. The time, the networking, and the conversation were all invaluable. So, what’s on the top of everyone’s mind? Driving a competitive advantage, and building additional capacity for […]

The LinkedIn network represents 70 million members from 200 countries, on all 7 continents.  It’s powerful, and growing.  Some recruiters think it’s a powerful force behind the tipping point in agency recruiting.  Regardless, the site continues to add new features, benefiting both job seekers and recruiters. LinkedIn also continues its’ growth as a major component […]

Written by @erincarlson. Have you ever stopped to think about how much LinkedIn caused a tipping point in both agency and corporate recruiting? What use to be the private commodity of agency recruiters, their database of people now resides freely accessible by corporate recruiters via the web. There is no control over the candidate and […]

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.

Blast applications announced today the official launch of Twedemption, a new “mass delete” direct message service for twitter. For Recruiters and other twitter users that frequently communicate with their followers, Twedemption allows users to mass-delete direct messages.  For a a one-time fee of $5.99, you can safely and securely delete multiple or all DMs from […]

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 […]

With more than five million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired is the world’s largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network, and yesterday announced it’s going social. Today’s web-savvy job seekers are turning social applications into professional job hunting tools by embracing social networks to expand professional connections, tapping into twitter for real-time alerts about […]