How to Win the Hearts of Today’s Top Talent

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The baby boomers are leaving and the Millenials are up to bat, but it seems we’re short a few for the starting line up. The baby boomers swamped the work force in such large numbers that it is going to be quite the task to fill all of the positions left behind. This in turn creates a power shift between recruiter and candidate. We can no longer post a job and wait for the swarm, especially when it comes to top talent. This shift in the recruiting and hiring world is changing how we do things.
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How to Build Effective Recruitment “Talent Pools”

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The recruiting industry’s abuzz with social recruiting, but what about Talent Pools? A talent pool is exactly like it sounds. It is a still puddle of job seekers and potential candidates who are eager, interested, and open to hear about your company’s job openings and career opportunities. The problem is that a talent pool, of any substantial size and lifespan, simply doesn’t exist. Pools in themselves are small yet separate pockets of standing water and with the internet, these talent pools and pockets of isolated candidates do not effectively exist.
 
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Workology: The Study of Work

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In order to truly understand something, we must start at the beginning. It’s the reason that anthropologists focus their life’s work on different fields like culture, archaeology, biology and linguistics when it comes the history of the human being. The past, our history, gives us insight into our thoughts, desires, mistakes and successes. Read more

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The 4 Essential Interview Questions for the PR Professional

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Public relations is one of the most diverse and ambiguous fields out there. In fact, if you ask any given individual what it is, chances are you’ll get a different response 75% of the time. One thing is for sure, public relations is important. I see public relations as the practice of managing the relationship and spread of information between an organization and its publics. Whether it’s a recruiting agency and its clients, a sports team and its fans, or a product and its consumers, a positive two-way communication model must be maintained to effectively elevate an organization’s brand. After all, a happy public is what draws sales and a wider audience. What organization wouldn’t want that?

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The Smarter Marketplace

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This past month SmartRecruiters rolled out one of our most exciting features yet, our new Recruiter Marketplace. Henceforth SmartRecruiters customers will be able to engage the best 3rd party recruiters directly from inside their SmartRecruiters accounts- and recruiters will have access to targeted reqs from our customers. It’s the latest step in our quest to ensure that our customers make the best possible hiring decisions. Read more

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Why Social HR Technology is Here to Stay

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Technology in our space, the human resources and recruitment industry, is moving at a rapid place.  For those individuals who are new to social media in HR, this proves to be a difficult and overwhelming task as later adopters have to work extremely hard to catch up in the ever-changing ways to communicate online.  While things like employer branding and social recruiting are important for our industry, it is even more important for the average Read more

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The 10 Hires that Made Google Google

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Google is more than a household name. It is the most popular search engine in the world and as far as our digital lives go Google is involved nearly every step of the way. Aside from its online accolades, Google is known for it’s unique hiring process. The process strives to find people with a high level of  “googelyness,” which is determined by the “signs around your comfort with ambiguity, your bias to action and your collaborative nature.” Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found great people to do great work in order to take Google to new frontiers. These are the The 10 Googlers that are most responsible for scaling Google into what it is today.
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The 10 Hires that Made Google Google

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Google is more than a household name. It is the most popular search engine in the world and as far as our digital lives go Google is involved nearly every step of the way. Aside from its online accolades, Google is known for it’s unique hiring process. The process strives to find people with a high level of  “googelyness,” which is determined by the “signs around your comfort with ambiguity, your bias to action and your collaborative nature.” Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found great people to do great work in order to take Google to new frontiers. These are the The 10 Googlers that are most responsible for scaling Google into what it is today.
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