5 ways you know you are ready for a formal Employee Referral Program

As a talent acquisition leader or practitioner, it’s your job to help meet the needs of your growing organization by insuring a healthy pipeline of candidates that possess the skill sets (and personality) needed to run your company. With unemployment rates low and good talent hard to find, your work becomes increasingly more challenging as Read more about 5 ways you know you are ready for a formal Employee Referral Program[…]

How to use your Social Media accounts to quickly land job interviews at the companies you want to work for

Regardless of your line of work, whether its driving a truck, cooking food in a restaurant, preparing tax returns, writing software, stocking shoes – you probably can list off the top of your head 3-5 companies you’d love to work for.  Create a list of the top companies you want to work for, just off the top of your head, if you can think of that many.  If you can’t, don’t fret, because quickly you’ll have a list of plenty to choose from. […]

What are the best job boards for your recruiting dollar?

Software Advice, an HR & recruiting technology review service that connects businesses with software vendors, recently published the results of its survey to determine which job boards provide the best ROI for employers. , recently published the results of its survey to determine which job boards provide the best ROI for employers.  To conduct this survey, Software Advice Read more about What are the best job boards for your recruiting dollar?[…]

Using LinkedIn Signal as a Job Search tool

Today I conducted a little experiment.  To prove my theory that social media will replace traditional job boards, I leveraged LinkedIn’s little known-about tool, Signal, to check for status updates from 1st and 2nd degree connections that contained words related to “job”.  My goal:  to determine if I could create my own job board showing Read more about Using LinkedIn Signal as a Job Search tool[…]

Creative Ways to Distribute Your Job Postings

Not everyone can afford (or wants to pay) $300 or more to post a job on one of the premier job boards like LinkedIn, Monster or CareerBuilder, and few recruiters (outside of agencies) have the time to pro-actively mine resume databases for talent.  Given this, what are some creative and unique ways to distribute your job postings to increase the flow of candidates into your applicant tracking system? […]