Proactive Talent

MAY 24, 2016

Research shows that job boards on average gather 43% of all applications companies receive for new job openings. But while job boards may have the highest number of applications, their conversion-to-hire rates fall drastically behind other sources of hire like employee referrals and company career sites.

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Social Talent

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In the news this week: The Future of Recruiting: Roadmap 2016. And while other generations also rank these reasons highly when choosing a job, millennials find them to be significantly more important. As part of Talent Connect 2015, LinkedIn announced the top 100 most in-demand employers in EMEA in 2015. thus far in 2015.

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Social Talent

AUGUST 23, 2015

Social media dynamos Instagram and Pinterest nearly doubled their users between 2012 and 2015 , according to a new study — and Pinterest is winning. based think tank, surveyed 1,907 adults this spring to learn about their social media habits. Misty Humphries (@mhumphriesmd) August 11, 2015.

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Social Talent

APRIL 19, 2015

What an inventive use of your own product for recruitment purposes! Snapchat , the photo messaging application, has been sneakily approaching its competitor’s talent by adding a layer to its pictures which sends them to their jobs board. Industry: Tech.

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ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 7, 2015

If your organization is considering a mobile and social recruiting strategy, the good news is that it’s not too late to effectively implement one. According to a 2014 study by CareerBuilder , only 39% of all employers use social media for recruiting and hiring. Is mobile device usage high for this prevailing demographic?

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Arya Recruiting Robotics

JANUARY 18, 2016

million Americans on Facebook, 66 million on Twitter, and 122 million on LinkedIn, social media is no longer an area that recruiters can afford to ignore. In fact, LinkedIn’s 2015 U.S. Aside from using social media to search for high-quality candidates, make a resolution to step up your social media game.

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Prominence

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Rather than send out a collection of generic links that would add no value to you, I’ve decided to write a post summarising the changes that our industry has seen this year alongside some of my predictions for 2015. Whether Facebook is going to become a recruiting superpower remains to be seen. Goliath vs Goliath. Differentiation.

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Jibe

AUGUST 18, 2016

Social recruiting is much easier said than done. Although sites like Twitter and LinkedIn may be far down on the top source of hire list in 2015, companies seem to be more interested in experimenting with social recruiting than ever before. What Does A Social Recruiting Culture Look Like?

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Social Talent

APRIL 10, 2016

. “Because of the high attrition rate for women working in tech, teaching more girls and women to code is not enough to solve this problem,” Rachel Thomas, a software engineer, wrote in a Medium post in July 2015. The original service is for high-class recruitment and aimed at job seekers looking for salaries of over $75,000.

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Prominence

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Five years ago this change wouldn’t have been significant, but in 2015 mobile users now make up a significant proportion of web traffic, even reported to have surpassed desktop by some sources. The rest comes from job boards, paid marketing and social media (providing you have a good social strategy in place).

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Recruiting Daily

AUGUST 11, 2016

Sure, reach is important, sure, but when you’re recruiting for an Engineer with Python Coding in their background, are your resources really best spent on a job board targeted primarily at sales professionals or a social site like Pinterest? Are we saying that a recruiting background is required to excel at EB?

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Social Talent

JULY 5, 2015

In the news this week: Job Boards Still A Leading Way To Fill Vacancies. As more than one survey (including our own) has pointed out over the last few years, job boards are far from dead. As the accompanying chart shows, jobseekers who found work via a job board have fallen almost 23% in 10 years.

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Brazen Recruiting

APRIL 13, 2016

Content marketing is so big in fact that the Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) 2015 Content Marketing Budgets, Benchmarks and Trends report found that 86% of B2B and 77% of B2C organizations have some sort of content marketing strategy in place. Download our free guide to attracting and engaging top talent in a candidate-driven market here.

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Social Talent

JULY 2, 2015

Today, Hiroto has his lasso out once again because we’re bringing together all of that knowledge into one blog post package – the Social Recruiting Round-Up for June 2015. Top Recruitment Blogs in June: Top 11 Recruitment Conferences You MUST ATTEND in Summer/Autumn 2015. Y885KhE9jR.

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SmartRecruiters

MARCH 21, 2016

Using social media in recruiting isn’t new — 84 percent of organizations surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) currently use social recruiting. But social recruiting is no longer limited to screening candidates’ social profiles or connecting with talent on LinkedIn.

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Social Talent

MAY 28, 2015

Today, we’re bringing together all of that knowledge into one blog post package – the Social Recruiting Round-Up for May 2015. Top Recruitment News Stories in May: LinkedIn’s Q1 2015 Earnings are In! And Talent Solutions represented 62% of total revenue in Q1 2015 and 2014.

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Social Talent

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Hello and welcome to the pre-Christmas, November issue of Social Talent’s Social Recruiting Round-Up – a collection of the best blogs, infographics and new stories posted on the Social Talent blog in the last month. The ULTIMATE Recruiter’s Guide to Mobile for 2015. The truth is in the numbers!

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Social Talent

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

According to LinkedIn , 62% of companies are looking to hire more people in 2016 than they did in 2015. Great news for recruiters right? Yes it is, but there’s a catch – only 44% of those companies said they will be spending more on hiring in 2016 than they did in 2015. Let us know in the comments below.

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Social Talent

JANUARY 4, 2015

But how do you, the recruiters, feel this problem can be tackled in 2015? Could a Hackathon be the Perfect Way to Kick-Off 2015? Looking to improve your talent acquisition processes, create lasting talent pipelining strategies and successfully source for open positions in 2015? Let us know in the comments below.

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Social Talent

DECEMBER 6, 2015

The UK’s “spiralling skills gap” has worsened in the past year as there are almost 2 jobs available per candidate, according to a new report published by online job board, Adzuna. candidates per role in October 2015. In October 2014, there were 0.95 candidates per role. That number has plummeted during the past 12 months.

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Social Talent

JULY 6, 2015

In this example, you can see the Social Talent Twitter account received 56 retweets on the June 23rd, 2015: You can also do the same for the overall number of link clicks, favourites, replies and engagement rates. But what does this new character limit mean for recruiters? Johnny Campbell (@SocialTalent) July 6, 2015.

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Jobvite

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

UK recruiters need more than monetary compensation to attract best talent. Recruitment professionals struggling to match hires to employer demand. Social recruiting is emerging as a recruitment imperative. Recruiting is Getting Tougher. Social recruiting is the new frontier.

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ClearCompany Recruiting

JULY 23, 2018

To put it into perspective, in 2015, 39% of companies said Quality of Hire (QoH) was their most valuable performance metric. Streamlining Your Recruiting Process. If you’re a recruiter or an HR Professional tasked with recruiting, you likely have to: Answer phone calls and emails. Implement social recruiting campaigns.

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Jibe

MAY 26, 2016

In 2015 almost 2 in 3 employed adults looked at new opportunities within three months of starting a job. Question is, how do you capitalize on these almost-always-looking candidates from a recruiting perspective? The Talent Board’s 2015 Candidate Experience study surveyed 130,000 candidates.

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Great Hires

OCTOBER 12, 2015

There are 2800 companies that are tagged as Recruiting Startups on AngelList , of which 199 were added in August and September 2015. After ignoring 31 firms that weren’t really recruiting-related, here is what I found about the remaining 168 companies – so almost three per day.

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SmartRecruiters

JUNE 22, 2015

Here are ten trends every hiring manager and job seeker needs to know: Job boards remain popular: Job boards are the initial ‘go-to’ for job seekers and according to LinkedIn’s 2015 Global Recruiting Trend Survey produced the highest quantity of hires in 2014.

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The Whiteboard

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

The fact is most people still get jobs via job boards. Which is why, whilst social media has its place in the overall recruitment matrix, its importance shouldn’t be overplayed. billion has already been invested into HR Tech in just the first half of 2015.

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Social Talent

JUNE 26, 2016

The visual app now has over 500 million users – twice its count from 2 years ago – and it added the last 100 million since September 2015, faster than the previous 100 million. On June 21st, Instagram hit a rather big milestone. That’s 34% higher than the national average. Dean of Engineering at Dartmouth, Joseph Helble.

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Recruiting Daily

JUNE 26, 2015

I’m also not a data scientist, since I’m as good at math as most people in marketing, but I realized in reading through this recruiter whine party that quantitative measurements and metrics aside, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that there’s something rotten going on in the state of talent acquisition today.

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WebRecruit

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

However, a huge 60% of recruiters still don’t use social media in the recruitment process, according to the Jobvite 2015 Social Recruitment Survey. But why should you be using social media to recruit and what benefits can it deliver to your HR function? You can reach those passive candidates.

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Social Talent

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Roy Ripper Recruiters Live Lounge. Although it hasn’t been updated since mid-December 2015, it is well worth going back over the 36 existing podcasts industry influencer, Roy Ripper , has to offer on his Recruiters Live Lounge website. We’re recruiters. Follow @TEDRadioHour. Follow @NPRinvisibilia.

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Even with the technological advancements in recruiting today, they still haven’t eliminated the old ways – or rendered the talent Luddites obsolete. Print ads, broadcast media or plain old help wanted ads still work (as do job boards); just maybe not as efficiently or effectively as the other tools available to talent pros today.

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Social Talent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Ultimately, Patel said Hired could be used “for marketers, for human resources, for accounts for architects — all knowledge workers should be able to find a job this way.”. LinkedIn have just released their 2015 Talent Trends report , compiling responses from more than 1,600 professionals in the U.S. What Do the Latest U.S. and Canada.

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Prominence

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

It is early January so you may not yet have noticed any change to LinkedIn, but in the background there have been several key changes implemented for 2015. Two of these changes are very significant for recruiters and have the potential to force those that are currently getting by with the LinkedIn Basic account to upgrade to Premium.

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Recruiting Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Forget, for a second, that we have more positions open than recruiters to fill them, and keeping up with demand means scouring every source possible, including paying an obscene amount of money each year for licenses and access to a slew of paid sources, from job board databases to “professional networks.”

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Social Talent

JUNE 10, 2015

From the CIPD Recruitment Exhibition Show in London, to SHRM 2015 in Las Vegas, to HR Tech World Congress in Paris, recruitment shows and expos are there to help your company realise the potential of technology. These features facilitate internal hiring and employee referral programs, which means job openings are filled faster.

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Workable

AUGUST 3, 2017

Recruiters use social media sourcing to build talent pipelines for future roles and engage passive candidates who haven’t applied for current openings. Here’s everything you need to know about how to use social recruiting to build a strategy that meets your hiring needs: Intro to social media recruitment: Analyzing the data.

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