Archive for August, 2009
Top 10 Candidate Sourcing Best Practices
I firmly believe that candidate identification is the most critical step in the talent acquisition/recruiting life cycle – you can’t build a relationship with, receive a referral from, network with, or hire someone you haven’t found in the first place.
From the very beginning of my recruiting career, I’ve leveraged technology for talent identification, and I’ve learned that searching databases, [...]
How I Made 3 Hires with Twitter in 6 Weeks
Article by Megan Hopkins
Let’s get one thing out in the open very quickly. I’m a very stubborn person and I like to learn things on my own…even if it is painfully obvious to others.
Confessions of a Twitter Hater…
My relationship with Twitter started out very slowly and much like my relationship with my ex-husband – I was [...]
How to Search Spoke, ZoomInfo, and Jigsaw for Free
Spoke, Zoominfo, and Jigsaw are websites that contain information on 10’s of millions of people and millions of companies. Each site has their own special method of capturing information on people and businesses. What they all have in common, however, is that while you can register and in some cases even run a few searches for free, you have [...]
Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook July 2009 Traffic Data
I’m always interested in the traffic for the “Big Three” social media sites (Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn), and I discovered today that www.compete.com just released July’s data.
And here it is!
Facebook
While Facebook’s been on a tear of growth as it passed the 250M member mark, Facebook only added 117,142 unique U.S. visitors in July 2009 . That seems like a large [...]
LinkedIn by the Numbers – Searching by Title and Clearance
Ever wonder how many executives are on LinkedIn?
How about accountants, software engineers, ”Big 4″ employees, or people with TS/SCI clearances?
Well I did. So I decided to run a number of searches for common titles in information technology, finance and accounting, recruiting and human resources, business development, social media, and administrative support and publish the results for the world to [...]
What Happens When Twitter is Down?
Sometime in the mid-morning I was trying to send a quick Direct Message via TweetDeck to one of my valued network contacts and it didn’t go through. I waited and tried a few more times, and after further failures – I headed directly to Twitter.
My Internet connection was good – I could navigate other sites, [...]
Candidate – Recruiter Relationships: Overrated?
What is the ultimate value you provide to candidates as a recruiter?
I want you to really think about that question before proceeding. In this post, there will be more questions raised than answers provided. Please take a moment to ensure that you have your thinking cap on and that your mind is open.
Who Defines Value?
From the candidate’s perspective, what [...]
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