My hunch is that most companies have started to use social networks for their recruiting, but it is most likely happening more by accident than strategy. Recruiters are setting up their own personal profiles – rather than corporate accounts – and manually building their contact networks using the social sites to source candidates and market their jobs by tweeting, wall posting, or sending group updates with each job requisition.
You may, or may not know that the adoption of an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) provides the means to alleviate unnecessary expenses currently embedded within the hiring process. An ATS can also greatly streamline the hiring process, multiply the efforts of a small recruitment staff, and give valuable performance feedback to managers.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene Americans remain apprehensive about the economy, their job prospects and their incomes, even as a recovery is taking shape. We as a country are going through a financial crisis, which is testing us in many [...]
If you remember watching Michael Jackson’s televised moonwalk performance, it’s likely you remember typed paper resumes sent by snail mail to employers, who stored the resumes in big metal file cabinets. It’s tempting to fondly remember the old school ways as more personal and efficient, until you remember that those resumes were likely filed in [...]
myStaffingPro, an applicant tracking software, partners with employee management tool, Bamboo HR. The partnership will offer an integrated ATS and HRIS solution for small to medium sized companies. Customers will be able to recruit, qualify, and track applicants with myStaffingPro’s applicant tracking functionality. Upon hire, the applicant data is imported into Bamboo HR. The integration [...]
An Employment Brand exists regardless of whether an organization chooses to leverage it to attract and retain top talent. The key is to identify, cultivate, and then market it to the right people, according to a report by Kennedy Information, Employment Branding: What Every Employer Should Know. Following these steps will strengthen the organization’s assets [...]
Cross-Post LLC, a recruitment advertising company that helps newspapers to increase their classified advertising revenues, partners with CollegeRecruiter.com. The partnership will help newspapers to greatly increase their classified advertising revenues by offering their employer clients a product that reaches the early career and college market, according to CollegeRecruiter.com and Cross-Post LLC. Newspapers can offer the [...]
Results of a third quarter employment and sales survey reveal a marked improvement in staffing employment in the third quarter of 2009 (Q3 2009) over the previous quarter, but the number of jobs remains substantially lower than during the same period last year, according to the American Staffing Association (ASA). While the U.S. experienced sustained losses [...]
Companies should prioritize executive retention before key business leaders depart, reports a new study conducted by ExecuNet, a private business network, and Finnegan Mackenzie, The Retention Firm. The 2009 Executive Retention Report finds that while job satisfaction varies by level of management, with CEOs (63%) and other C-level officers (52%) more likely to be “satisfied” [...]
Employee turnover is expected to rise next year suggests a new survey by Right Management. In fact, 60% of employees intend to leave, 21% are networking, and an additional 6% are updating their resumes, reports the talent and career management expert within Manpower, an employment services provider. While the best workers are mobile in any [...]
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