Social Networking
Have You Analyzed the Value of Your LinkedIn Network?
When someone connects to you on LinkedIn, they gain the benefit of any non-overlapping network connections from your first and second degree network. Your first degree connections become their second, and your second degree connections become their third. Have you ever taken a look at your LinkedIn network at the first and second to see [...]
Will 2011 be a Big Year for Recruiters and Social Media?
I read a brief sidebar article in the November 1, 2010 Fortune magazine that detailed the hottest jobs of 2010 and I was pleased with what I saw, and I thought you would be too. Apparently, Fortune worked with “LinkedIn’s top data crunchers” to pull some exclusive information about the job titles that saw the [...]
Top 25 Most Connected Recruiters on LinkedIn
I’ve complied a list of the top 25 most connected recruiters on LinkedIn. To generate this list, I searched LinkedIn for anyone in the world who had one of the following terms in their current title: recruiter OR recruiting OR recruitment OR sourcer OR sourcing OR talent, and I sorted the results by connections. It looks as [...]
LinkedIn Network Connections: How Do You Measure Up?
You’re on LinkedIn – congratulations! So, how big is your network? Without going into a rant on quality vs. quantity (who says we can’t have BOTH?), let’s take a different angle on the size of your LinkedIn network…at your current company, where do you rank in terms of number of connections? Do you know off the top [...]
Social Media and Recruiting – Beyond the Hype
I’m very much an anti-hype, anti-bandwagon person. I neither like to nor want to get caught in the undertow of the emotional rush associated with being excited about something that nearly everyone else seems to be excited about, where everyone celebrates the new and “cool factor” with little-to-no critical thought. When that next bright and shiny object comes along, it’s [...]
The Future of Recruiting: The More Things Change…
Now that we are on our way into exploring the new year, I’ve seen some articles on what’s coming next for the recruiting industry this year, and even as far out as 10 years from now. When I read one such article written by Kevin Wheeler, I was struck by his comment that although sourcing remains a [...]
LinkedIn Search Results Sorting: Relevance or Keyword?
When I deliver presentations on how to leverage LinkedIn to source candidates, I have the opportunity to get a sense of what most people seem to know about using LinkedIn. Recently I have been making it a point to ask how people tend to sort their search results when searching LinkedIn, and the overwhelming majority leave their results sorting [...]
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 [...]
Is LinkedIn Becoming a Job Board?
Is LinkedIn a social networking site, a job board, or a little of both? Most people consider LinkedIn to be a social networking site, or more specifically a professional network service. LinkedIn describes itself as an “interconnected network of experienced professionals.” However, when I take a step back and take an objective view of LinkedIn, I [...]
Searching Social Media Requires Outside-the-Box Thinking
Non-Standard Descriptors and the Role They Play in Social Media Article by Valerie Scarsellato, Sr. Sourcer at Intel Corporation Co-written by Glen Cathey Sourcing has always been a significant component in the recruiting lifecycle. However, in recent years, sourcing has taken a giant step into the forefront and has become recognized as the solid foundation at which [...]
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