The case of the fabricated degree continues to wage on. Who dun it? The now-departed CEO? Or the executive recruiting firm that helped him land the job? No matter who is to blame, the case of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has taught one thing: the black-and-white ink stamped on resume paper is no longer [...]
London calling! It’s that time of year to find out how some of Europe’s most progressive companies are tackling the world of social. SelectMinds will host our European Client Conference this Thursday at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London where participants will get an inside look into some of today’s most innovative recruiting strategies. The [...]
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 [...]
We have no problem admitting we’re addicted to social media; it’s an obvious side-effect in our line of work. But a recent report in the Guardian suggests that we may not be alone. New research shows that Twitter might be more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol, a finding that has major implications for social recruiting [...]
It’s one thing to offer employees a $1,000 bonus when one of their referrals gets hired. It’s quite another when the $1,000 check arrives on a five foot-wide placard that looks like it belongs in the winner’s circle at the Masters or US Open. This added bit of fanfare, complete with giant check presentation, commemorative [...]
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 [...]
So the 14th Annual HR Technology Conference and Exposition is almost upon us and the excitement in the air over here at SelectMinds isn’t just over the prospect of a trip to Vegas… Or even that we’ll be able to demo our slick social recruiting solution, TalentVine to a cutting edge tech-hungry crowd… And it’s [...]
We’ve just wrapped up our trip to Taleo World and the buzz on the floor and in the sessions was all about social recruiting growing up. It really feels like a light bulb has gone off that social recruiting is as much about relationships and credibility as it is about reach. HR people have traditionally [...]
Enterprise referral programs are the Chinese food of the recruiting world: even when they are bad, they are still good. So goes the latest thinking on the topic from Dr. John Sullivan, the HR guru and San Francisco State University management professor. In his post on ERE.net, Sullivan shares his research tracking hundreds of ERPs, [...]
Jim Milton, SelectMinds Director of Corporate Strategy was recently interviewed by Kevin Casey of InformationWeek. In the article, 2 Ways SMBs Make Social Pay: Development, Recruiting, Jim discusses the opportunities that exist for companies of all sizes who implement a smart social social sourcing strategy. Here’s an excerpt: “It’s definitely harder to measure the [...]
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