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We have a fantastic opportunity coming up, a one week long trial of TheSocialCV for all of our members, starting on 1/31/2012. It is being offered in association with the event TheSocialCV.com - Sourcing Challenge. I am excited about the trial as well as (of course!) about having a fun sourcing challenge.

WHAT IS THESOCIALCV?

TheSocialCV is one of my top 3 tools overall and belongs to the "Dream Software" category in my classification. They have indexed 100K+ MLN profiles. They use clever search algorithms with semantic search flavors. (The usual disclaimer: I am not affiliated with their ...

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Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about candidate experience, why passion matters, employer branding and social recruiting.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

What if it mattered how we treated candidates by Marvin Smith (@talentcommunity)

Great post by Marvin on candidate experience and what would happen if we treated customers like we do candidates.

Star Candidate Experience in 17 Steps ...

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At the ERE Innovation Summit held in October of 2011, Doug Berg, Chief Recruiting Geek of SuccessFactors (formerly Jobs2web) gave a talk about Measuring Your Apply Chain.  In a world full of people chasing the next “shiny object”, this talk disrupted how Talent Acquisition leaders think about recruiting.  Doug will be digging into this topic into great detail in a webinar on January 31 – Click here to be a part of it!

What is the Apply Chain?

The Apply Chain is a system of technology, activities, people and metrics that move a candidate to become an applicant.  This can range ...

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How do you ensure the most critical positions in your organization are held by the most talented people? 

There is no universal standard for placing a value on talent. But, there is a wealth of information out there describing the characteristics of ‘A’ versus ‘C’ players, and how organizations can identify the categories of employees they have and the types of employees they need. 

If a company identifies the type of human capital required to meet their business objectives, they can then analyze their workforce and develop an effective workforce plan for sourcing, engaging, and retaining that talent. 

From the ...

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To understand the shift from analog HR to digital HR, you must understand the perception that too many employees have about human resources. There seems to be a standing joke about many companies' HR departments. Employees have described going to the HR department as reminiscent of being called to the principal's office. They anticipate bad news; usually terminations are handled in the HR department, but demotions, disciplinary action and the like also are some of the worst case scenarios that employees think about when they have been summoned to HR. Add to that the overall distaste that employees have ...

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It's a new year, and the usual predictions abound about what will be hot in 2012.  Based on what we've been reading and hearing, here are the recruiting trends we think recruiters should keep an eye on:

1. Social Media Recruiting Wars - The race is on to see which social network, if any, will unseat LinkedIn as the recruiter's social network of choice.  When it was released last year, a lot of people had their money on Google+ due to it's ability to separate contacts into "Circles," allowing users to be selective about which contacts saw ...

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Personality tests are a huge fad, but how useful are they really?

The MMPI seems a popular choice, but it has been ruled discriminatory against the disabled. See Dendall Williams on this point. The big five personality traits have predictive power for job performance but the test is easily gamed. The Holland Code test is good for choosing a profession, but can not predict success. In spite of all the evidence that none of these tests predict success people are still strangely insistent on using them. The Fred Meyer application process is obnoxtiously lengthened by twenty minues when it forces ...

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How do you screen through the masses quickly and effectively so that you spend your limited time on the candidates who are most likely to succeed? How do you improve your chances of filling that precious head count with a top performer? Read more on Best Practice Screening By John Vlastelica.

With budgets tight and the residential real estate marketing still in a funk, both candidates and employers are reluctant to incur relocation costs to fill a job opening. When they can’t find local talent, employers sometimes allow new hires to telecommute. Read more.

Performance reviews are like the weather, everyone talks about them, but until recently, it seemed that HR didn’t want to do anything about them. The grumbling across Corporate America grew so load in 2011, that HR could no longer ignore the problem. Although the issues surrounding the traditional practices are easy to identify, revising the process can be difficult. See the a list of the most common ills plaguing performance reviews along with some innovative solutions.

One of the most telling results from our latest survey is the way employees feel about their boss’ ability to prepare employees for the future. In every region and across all generations, employees feel that this is a task their leaders are not living up to. 

Older workers are far more likely to believe that their manager has failed to prepare them for future success, and employees in the EMEA region are far less satisfied with the preparation they’ve been given by their leaders than those in other regions. 

Generation Y’s in the Americas feel the most positive ...

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I wanted to share this, as I feel people on this blog will find the details very interesting! Would love to hear your thoughts on the results... 

What I found particularly interesting was the report shows social recruiting is hot and growing, but job boards remain the #1 source for candidates... didn't necessarily think this was the case!

Stephanie 

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Talent Technology Corporation, providers of Talemetry™, the leading talent generation solution for corporate HR and recruitment agencies announced today the results to their latest survey of recruitment professionals, releasing their annual State of Recruiting Survey Results and Infographic. Finding good ...

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When I talk to companies about developing military recruitment and retention programs they are often surprised when I ask if veteran-owned small businesses (VOSB) and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSB) are included in their supplier diversity programs.

This can be a differentiator when it comes to marketing your company to prospective military applicants.  I advise my clients to promote the fact that their company actively seeks to do business with VOSB's as a way to attract veterans to their workforce.

In recent years, the Census Bureau has begun collecting data on veteran-owned businesses.  In 2007 veterans owned 2.4 ...

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Here is a custom search engine that looks for LinkedIn profiles. Enter a name or a keywords and see the results:

LinkedIn Profiles

Now, let’s search, for example, for

physician cardiology diagnostics MD "Greater Atlanta Area"

Let’s exclude the word “recruiter” from the above search:

physician cardiology diagnostics MD "Greater Atlanta Area" -recruiter

We got fewer results.

*** Are you ready for a sourcing CONTEST? ***

Contest warm-up: Did we just exclude recruiters’ profiles or did we also lose any relevant (non-recruiter) profiles in the search results?

CONTEST. Please give an example where excluding a keyword that we don’t ...

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Salaries for Silicon Valley tech pros topped an average of $100,000 for the first time last year, according to a Dice salary survey.

Companies are directing more of their time and recruiting budgets toward social media, but are those investments paying off? Read results of Bersin & Associates survey of companies with 100 or more employees about where they found recent hires and their cost per hire. Are your surprised by the results?

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In this VLOG (Video Blog), Brian, with Johnston Search, your "Inbound Recruiter" is launching his first book today, and titled...

"Headhunter and Headhunted...How to Get Found and Sell Your Product or Service Online"

You may or may not have noticed already, but my firm has gone through a transformation in recent years, and we believe we are on the "bleeding edge" of the innovation that is happening in the global market place in regards to commerce of your products and services.

It's obvious that you're realizing that you ...

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Hiring Managers, Please get a Clue!!!!!
Well I have said it enough in numerous posts. Hiring Managers (HM) usually have no real clue what they want. So what does that mean for Staffing Professionals (SP), Recruiters, etc... It means we have to take off our Hunter hat, and put on our consulting and training hats. It means we need to meet with the HM, listen to what they are saying, what they are not saying (LookLisology), and read between the lines to help them to figure out what they really need. This might include doing allot of research with and ...

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Not too long ago, we published a blog post: How to Hire a Great Recruiter. It's a topic that we've been thinking about on and off for nearly 16 years and it's recently resurfaced in a big way as the economy continues to show signs of improvement. Currently, as executives at a leading corporate applicant tracking software provider, we come into contact with hundreds of organizations that are looking for internal recruiting support. Literally, a day doesn't go by that our team doesn't get asked to refer a good corporate recruiter.

Unfortunately, too many companies ...

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