Are small companies bearing a greater burden than large companies when attempting to recruit new hires? According to this report in today’s Wall Street Journal, the answer is a resounding yes. The Journal explains that companies with more than 10,000 employees world-wide pay a median figure of $1,949 per hire. Mid-size companies come in at [...]
All of a sudden QR (or Quick Response) Codes are everywhere. Seemingly overnight, those funky bar codes that you can scan with your smart phone popped up everywhere from posters on the train to the back of a bag of chips. But in a post this morning to ERE, recruiting expert John Sullivan wonders whether [...]
Most critiques of social recruiting are aimed at the medium. In this thought-provoking post to Forbes, Drew Hansen expresses some of these oft-asked questions. Here’s an excerpt: I have two concerns about the viability of virtual talent communities. First, I fear that companies will try to engineer them into existence when their value lies in [...]
If you had to select only one way to recruit talent, which way would you chose? That’s what Matt Lowney asked HR executives for recent post on ERE, and the answers he got may surprise you. During his own unscientific polling, Lowney grabbed the following list of what HR managers viewed as essentials to their [...]
With Monday’s announcement of Google+ launching business pages, the social recruiting world is aflutter wondering if the Google twist on social networking will gain traction. Since its staggered soft launch in July, Google+ has accumulated 40 million users (compared to LinkedIn’s 130 million and Facebook’s 800 million), leading some to ask if Google+ has enough [...]
Anyone who consumes social media can tell you sharing goes in ebbs and flows. But for companies looking to harness this for recruiting through social channels, how do they know when the optimal time is to share their opening? A Friday at noon? Tuesday at 2:00? Or first thing on a Monday? Facebook “page” insights [...]
It seems natural that social recruiting would be a fit for young candidates. The crop of current college students and recent grads who spent their formative years learning just how much of a reach a“Like” or a Retweet can have are more open to using social channels as a way to connect with the jobs [...]
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