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 [...]
We spend a lot of time at SelectMinds espousing the virtues of social media as a powerful recruitment tool. But can it be used for the biggest executive search in the country? An op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal makes the case that social media will definitely play a role in who becomes our next [...]
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 [...]
The trees are trimmed, the candles are lit. It can mean only one thing: Bowl season! At least that’s the daydream for college football fans as the holiday week winds down. So as the football frenzy kicks off, we’re interested in exploring if the nation’s most publicized recruiting efforts – landing the next star athlete [...]
Are Fortune 500 companies letting the social media world pass them by? According to this post which cites statistics from the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a solid majority of the country’s largest firms have been slow to adopt a visible social media presence. The statistics are surprising, but the social [...]
Social recruiting has officially gone mainstream. But when you think of the most popular way to land a job online, your brain probably jumps first to LinkedIn, the site that stresses “relationships matter” to the tune of 120 million registered users. But not so fast. According to this info-graphic, courtesy of MBA Online, social recruiting [...]
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 [...]
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