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  • Recruiting, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 31st, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    Dr. John Sullivan, ERE, HR Managers, recruiting, social recruiting

    Tricks to Avoid: 30 Common Social Recruiting Faux Pas

    As with any evolving industry, businesses are prone to mistakes in social recruiting game.  But what are the most common and the biggest missteps when it comes to tracking down talent via social networks?  For the answer we go to Dr. John Sullivan. In a post this morning on ERE, Sullivan runs the gamut of [...]

  • Recruiting, Social Media, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 28th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    Bloomberg, recruiting, Social business, Social Media, social media channels

    Finding the Influencers: Gauging the Social Media Gauges

    A tug has always existed from within to see just how many people we reach with our thoughts and musings in the social media world. It’s part of what made social media explode on the scene nearly a decade ago. But as the medium developed to a point where both individuals and companies regularly take [...]

  • Recruiting, Referral Programs, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 27th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    Social Media, social media channels, Social Media Today, Talent, Tracy Gold

    Scary-Good Content: Avoiding the Talent Spook

    Yesterday, we spoke about how to become an engaging voice on social media channels. Today, we move that idea along by examining content in a way that’s both different and very apropos for the end of October: through the eyes of a haunted house.  Tracy Gold of Social Media Today has the story of a [...]

  • Alumni Network, Recruiting, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 26th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    advertising, engagement, ERE, HR, passive candidates, Raghav Singh, Social Engagement, Social Media, Talent Communities

    Getting Engaged: Avoiding the Social Media Spam Trap

    Tweaking methods of engagement to breathe new life into your talent community?  That’s music to our ears.  So it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that we love this morning’s ERE post from staffing expert Raghav Singh, who channels Noam Chomsky to take a stab at making sense of the oft-cluttered world of social engagement.  [...]

  • Recruiting, Referral Programs, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 25th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    ERE, Lee Salz, social networking, social recruiting, social recruiting strategy

    Leave No Social Stone Unturned in the Search for Key Talent

    Candidates are the key. No matter how big the company, how strong the strategy or how high the success rate of your current staff, the complacency of letting unfilled positions stay vacant can doom any booming business. That’s the sentiment behind sales management strategist Lee Salz’s latest post for ERE. Here’s an excerpt: Executives plot [...]

  • Alumni Network, Recruiting, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 24th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    Alumni Network, Anne Berkowitch, Boomerang Employees, corporate alumni networks, Credit Suisse, Milssa Korn, Neal Wendel, rehires, SelectMinds, social recruiting, Wall Street Journal, WSJ

    SelectMinds in Today’s WSJ: Boomerang Employees –More Companies Tap Into Alumni Networks to Re-Recruit Best of Former Workers

    Today, The Wall Street Journal reported on a phenomenon that makes us want to stand up and shout, “Amen to that” to everyone who will listen.  In the story “Boomerang Employees,” WSJ management reporter Melissa Korn writes: “Corporate alumni networks can make it easier for former employees to become future employees.  Though formal alumni networks [...]

  • Recruiting, Referral Programs, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 22nd, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    CareerXroads, Deloitte, Dr. John Sullivan, EY London, Financial Times, Hewitt Corporation, Ohio University, referral network, referral programs, referrals, ROI of Social Media, SelectMinds, SHRM, social recruiting, TalentVine, Workforce Management

    Recruiting Math 101: Benchmarking the ROI of Social Referrals

    Good people know good people.  It sounds obvious, yet few recruiters have managed to make the dark art of referral recruiting into a science.  We believe we have found that solution by marrying corporate social networks with employee referral programs to create a company referral network.  The new concept is soon-to-be-unveiled in the new version [...]

  • Recruiting, Referral Programs, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 6th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    Anne Berkowitch, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Frank Wittenauer, HR Tech Conference, Justin Jesser, Neal Wendel, Social Media Recruiting Technologies, Verizon Wireless

    Embracing the Social Frontier: Wrap Up from the HR Tech Conference

    We wrapped up the final day at the HR Tech Conference, and we’re happy to report that social recruiting has become the “it” issue on the minds of the industry’s top recruiters technical minds.  Over the past few days, some of the premiere companies in the world have talked to us about how they are looking [...]

  • Recruiting, Social Recruiting

    Posted on October 5th, 2011

    Written by Maria Marasco

    Tags

    recruiting, ROI of Social Media, SelectMinds, Social Media, Social Media in the Enterprise, Social Networks, social recruiting, Social Sourcing, Survey

    SelectMinds Survey: 72% of Companies Use Social Media to Recruit Candidates

    Corporations are committed to social networking; this much we know. But how far is social media reaching into the enterprise? Are companies leveraging social connections to source new talent?  And if they are, have they seen their efforts pay off? To answer these burning questions, SelectMinds commissioned a survey to get a glimpse into how [...]

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