Social media and networking continue to get a lot of hype.  Twitter, as an example, has grown by over 750% in the past 12 months with an astonishing 1 billion tweets and counting! Applications and tools for these growing sites and platforms are growing quickly too.  If you use twitter, here are 8 newer sites […]

@tweetbomb joined the twitter craze on November 19, 2008.  And in less than 2 months, tweetbomb already has 4,040 followers. The point of tweetbomb? Everyday at 3:33 EST @tweetbomb releases a username of one of their followers.  To play along, you just need to send a @username message to that person, and watch the carnage […]

By Molly Sly (@mollysly). I’m waiting for my flight at the Orlando airport after attending the Kennedy Recruiting conference. The talk of the conference was social media and how it’s changing the way we recruit. As was stated in one of the sessions, social media has brought about the evolution of relationship marketing. In particular, […]

No ticket to attend the Kennedy Information Recruiting Conference next month in Orlando? No problem. Send me an e-mail, or direct message via twitter with your interest. Kennedy is interested in providing attendees and “web watchers” live updates, news, and information from the conference via their twitter stream. In return for capturing and posting, you’ll […]

8 Ways Twitter Will Change Your Life People are using the microblogging service that allows posts of 140 characters or less for bigger, more important tasks; here’s how it’s evolving. Standout Jobs Announces General Availability of its Recruitment Communication Platform Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today […]

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 […]

Twitter: How To Bring Your Recruiting to the Next Level Wednesday, November 5, 2008 2:00 pm ET – 3:00 pm ET Join HR executives and other technology-decision makers for a one-of-a-kind webinar, “Twitter: How To Bring Your Recruiting to the Next Level Corporate Social Networking Webinar Thursday, November 6, 2008 9:00 am ET – 4:00 […]

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 […]

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” […]

Most of you would be familiar with this trend. You make some great friends at work and develop this fantastic sense of camaraderie with them when one of them decides to leave and go on to another job. You have a tearful farewell party for them and sign their goodbye card with an endearing message […]

A quick thanks to Paul DeBettignies for creating a list of Recruiters using twitter. You can see the list created on RecruitingBlogs.com, by clicking here. I have been enjoying twitter in a variety of ways over the past 5 months, and have written the following posts about it: Recruiting, Social Media, and Friends. Twitter Rocks! […]