Nothing beats a reliable seal of approval. According to ERE, HR technology provider SilkRoad says 28% of new hires in 2011 came as a result of referrals, which was tops amongst all sources. SilkRoad compiled the data from “200,000 job postings, 9.4 million applicants and over 100,000 hires.” Here’s ERE’s Jon Zappe with more: What [...]
It’s almost become standard practice for companies to give away some pocket cash or cut a check to employees who successfully refer talent. But as the social recruiting landscape raises the stakes, are companies responding by upping the ante? In this article for ERE, Gareth Gwyn of Quintiles explains how awarding one lavish trip a [...]
The world still wants to know how powerful their influence is and what it should mean in the recruiting process. This morning on ERE, John Sullivan is back asking whether or not one’s Klout score should have an impact on his/her job prospects. Back in October, we wrote about the paradox most hiring managers and [...]
Earlier this month, we spoke about gaming in social recruiting and how a mobile-marketing firm called Upstream had taken to the tactic to try and bolster their recruiting efforts. Well, according to Todd Rafael in ERE this morning, the firm’s plan has become a smashing success. What the company’s VP of Innovation called “an act [...]
Last week at our SelectMinds Client Conference, Anthony Knierim of AON Hewitt presented the idea of gaming as a strategy to engage millennials in enterprise referral programs. Citing gaming’s unique attributes that encourage engagement, Knierim suggested some game mechanics to drive recruiting efforts on what, at first glance, seemed like an unusual platform. By letting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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