Every generation has a different attitude about work. Knowing how to attract and retain employees from different generations is imperative to any organization’s success. Millennials are the most recent generation to enter the workplace. By definition, a “millennial” is anyone born between 1980 and 1999. A lot has been written...
Continue ReadingSocial job seekers have high expectations. Are you sharing what they want? You may remember in part one that I explained that social recruiting is a balance of social sourcing, socializing your employer brand, and sharing your jobs in a way that doesn’t repel your followers. But if you don’t...
Continue ReadingTalent Pulse from the Human Capital Institute (HCI) is a quarterly research e-book that explores the latest trends and challenges in managing talent. Topics for each quarter’s analysis are determined by survey responses of HR and business professionals. The report is designed to provide practitioners and decision makers with prescriptive...
Continue ReadingThis Q+A series will take a look at perspectives about social recruiting technology from thought leaders around the blogosphere! Today, we spoke with Erin Osterhaus, Managing Editor, Writer and HR trend blogger at HR & recruiting technology review firm, Software Advice, and the New Talent Times to get her take on social...
Continue ReadingWhen was the last time you went online to apply for a job? If it’s been a while, let me tell you that you have been missing out on something special! (That’s sarcasm.) Most application processes are long, disjointed, broken and belabored. It’s hard to believe in our digital age...
Continue ReadingEven if you’re already connecting with your talent on Facebook, you can supplement your social recruiting by flitting over to Twitter to foster even more conversation (as long as you keep the chatter to 140 characters or less!). No matter where you are with your Twitter strategy, here’s a social...
Continue ReadingThis Q+A series will take a look at perspectives about social recruiting technology from thought leaders around the blogosphere! Today, we spoke with Tim Savage, Social Recruiter, Social Marketer, Entrepreneur, and Founder of TalentAttach, to get his take on social media recruitment for the recruiter and jobseeker. Check out the...
Continue ReadingIf you’re a forward-thinking recruiter or employer, you may have already had the foresight to start using your jobs as content on your social media channels—from hashtagged tweets to Facebook updates—however, an effective social recruitment strategy doesn’t simply involve a one-way broadcast of job titles and keywords. Social media is...
Continue ReadingMessage Received! What message? The message that social media has changed the world we live in – not just communications, or how we connect with family, or reality TV, but also the world of work. It’s kinduvabigdeal. Everything has changed because of social media, and that includes recruiting.
A picture paints a thousand words. Clichéd though it may sound, it explains the immense popularity of image sharing sites like Instagram and Pinterest. When training, I often hear HR dismiss a candidate based solely on a glance at a profile picture! What is your profile picture saying? But it’s...
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