Search HR pages, over 500 results.  Search groups, another 500.  The same goes for recruiting.  With all the clutter, there are few I have found that add value.  Like a lot of things, you’ll get out of it what you invest into it. In random order, here are 15 worthwile HR and Recruiting Pages (and […]

I had the opportunity to present at the Minnesota Recruiters Conference last week on Online Recruiting.  A big thanks to the co-founder of the group, Paul DeBettignies, for another great event. I focused on this topic as a follow-up to an article I wrote a few weeks ago called “Job Seekers Beware“.  These are a […]

The social media craze is alive on many fronts and, for Recruiters, it is no different.  There are companies offering a wide variety of services to advance their presence online for recruiting, skill development for sourcing talent, as well as the first social recruiting conference being held in June, to name a few.

Roughly 75% of jobs are gotten through networking. Unless you plan on staying in your city forever… you should be making friends online. (That doesn’t mean creating a Facebook profile.) Traditional social networks (Facebook/LinkedIn/MySpace) are used for maintaining relationships you’ve already built. You meet in person… then you connect online. That’s how they work. But […]

Meander through any cube farm today and try to figure out exactly what kind of work is being done. If you see an overloaded website with tiny pictures over the cube dweller’s shoulder, she’s on FaceBook. If there are small boxes scattered around the screen, and he is typing furiously, she’s IM’ing. If there’s a […]

Written by Renee Hoyt for The Talent Buzz blog post contest. It started as a couple of old friends talking about getting together. Some of the people in our High School theater group do it almost every year, either at a friend’s house or in NYC. Somehow this wasn’t going to be the usual 5-20 […]

By @jjbuss. Ever thought of writing? Blogging? Had 15 minutes of fame yet? I am thrilled to announce the 2nd Blog Post contest on The Talent Buzz.  This time, the stakes are higher as the winner will receive a $1,000 Visa Gift Card for the winning post.  Yep, that’s right, $1,000. The contest last year […]

With hundreds of investments you can make with online advertising, the CareerBuilder ad deal with Facebook, hasn’t proven to be one on the top of my list.  What was touted earlier this year as an innovative way to break into the social media and networking space hiring – and the next big thing for CareerBuilder […]

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 […]

By Jason Buss. 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 Recruiting in 2 Weeks, by Willy Franzen 5 Free Tools to Cure Your Social […]

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 […]

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 […]