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What Social Recruiting is NOT

After recently writing about moving beyond the hype of social media and recruiting, I took some time to reflect quite a bit on the topic, and focused a critical eye on exactly what “Social Recruiting” is.
While there is no shortage of what people think “Social Recruiting” is, quite frankly - I’m not satisfied with any of the definitions [...]

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LinkedIn Sourcing Tip: Industry Search Issue

Do you ever use social networks to such as LinkedIn to search for people with experience in a specific industry?
If you do, I can almost guarantee you that you are not finding everyone you’re looking for.
How?
There are intrinsic issues associated with any user generated content, especially when it comes to how users of social media identify themselves, and they [...]

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How to Search for GPA’s on LinkedIn

Have you ever wanted or needed to search for people who have achieved high grade point averages in high school or college?
 
While GPA is relatively unimportant to many employers – to others, a high GPA is indicative of a person’s ability to achieve results in an unstructured environment (no one is there making you go to [...]

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