Archive for February, 2012
LinkedIn Is Making Changes to Prevent Copying Profile Text
Last week, I had someone ask me what was going on with LinkedIn. She told me she was having difficulty selecting text from a LinkedIn profile in order to copy and paste it into a search engine to find the public profile. I jumped onto her computer to check out what she was talking about, [...]
Is Your ATS a Black Hole or a Diamond Mine?
Most companies and staffing organizations, ranging from executive search sole proprietorships to staffing agencies to Fortune 500 companies, have internal databases filled with rich and actionable information on thousands to literally tens of millions of applicants, candidates, and professionals. You would think that a private internal database of people that an organization has actively and passively, tactically [...]
How to Effectively Source Talent via Social Media & Networks
Sourcing talent via social media requires an entirely different mindset than sourcing with other forms of human capital data, such as resumes/CV’s, employee directories, conference attendee lists, etc. Back in early 2009, one of only 2 guest posts ever co-written on my site was published on the topic of non-standard descriptors and the role they [...]
SourceCon 2012 Atlanta – the Biggest SourceCon Ever!
It’s official. The SourceCon event at the Georgia Aquarium on Feb 9 & 10 will be the biggest event ever, with more attendees than any other SourceCon! What that really means, other than proof that Atlanta is the center of the sourcing universe [sorry Seattle ], is that attendees will have more opportunity to network [...]
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