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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Collaboration in the Hiring Process
As a corporate recruiter, one of my biggest frustrations is working with hiring managers to expedite and facilitate the hiring process for them. Just like me, they are pressed for time and often on deadlines. These deadlines make collaboration among the hiring manager, recruiter, and other decision makers even more important.
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Has LinkedIn Killed the Resume?
SmartRecruiters’ free recruiting software connects businesses with the Internet’s leading job boards, social networks and recruiting services, while also helping to manage the entire hiring process with our applicant tracking and collaboration features. Built on an open SaaS platform, we are in an unique position to innovate quickly and often – introducing new features and business partners frequently in order to create the best recruiting solution.
LinkedIn announced the launch of a new feature today which makes it even easier for candidates to apply to jobs using their LinkedIn profile instead of a resume. Read more
Evolution of Internet Recruiting
Sharing information on the internet – as Mark Zuckerberg put it – is in a stage of “profound exponential growth.” The Internet has revolutionized communication – specifically for recruiting – but it can also create what some call information overload. SaaS (Software as a Service) organizes the information. More online information does not have to mean that the user hears more noise on the internet. The next generation of Internet recruiting is open SaaS on the cloud.
Weekly Release: One-click Sharing to LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
At SmartRecruiters, we believe that recruiting is about casting a wide net and making the right choice – a wide net that attracts quality candidates. We took the first step toward helping you attract quality candidates by making performance-based job board recommendations that will be most effective for your particular job. Now we help you leverage the power of your social networks. We let you spread the word about your new job opening on leading social networks, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, directly from our new and improved job-posting wizard.
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Erecruiting: How to Recruit on LinkedIn
Last week LinkedIn became the second most popular social network on the planet, surpassing the once-upon-a-time-King of social media, MySpace, as the premier social network. LinkedIn is quite possibly the darling of recruiting and candidate sourcing for professional recruiters across the globe. Nearly 87% of employers, who hire through internet recruiting, go to the site first to search and source for candidates that fit their job requisition requirements.
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Wise Man Show, Featuring Jerome Ternynck
Welcome back to another episode of the Wise Man Show! Today, I have one of my favorite guests on the program – the inimical Jerome Ternynck, CEO of SmartRecruiters – the revolutionary, and FREE, recruitment software. Watch as Jerome speaks about the end of the CV, the ‘database graveyard’ and why the last 15 years of recruitment innovation has been essentially anti-human. A must watch for anyone interested in recruitment and the job search.
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Weekly release: Enhanced Job Widget & Improved Job Ad Editing
Enhanced Job Widget: SmartRecruiters provides two ways in which you can advertise your jobs on your website. We provide a ready-to-use careers page that you can easily link to your website to instantly create a branded careers page. If you already have a careers page on your website that you love, you can simply embed a list of your open jobs to this page using the SmartRecruiters job widget.
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The Battle for The Professional Network
SmartRecruiters open SaaS recruiting software offers candidates many ways into businesses’ talent pipeline, including buttons to apply for a job by using your LinkedIn or Facebook profile. Since the last time I analyzed job candidates’ preferred means of applying with their online profile (“To Be LinkedIn”) a lot has changed. The battle for API integration and users has intensified like a Duel in Deadwood. What has not changed: how people apply to jobs is a good indicator of where people prefer to store their professional information.
The Headlines
Google+ reached an estimated 20,000,000 users in three weeks, Facebook made an “Awesome” video chat announcement, and LinkedIn has overtaken MySpace as the second most popular online network (I know what you are thinking: (1.) How did MySpace remain the number two visited Social Network until last week? And (2.) Justin Timberlake now owns MySpace?).
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Types of Interviews (Part 2)
This is a two part blog series that discusses the candidate selection and interview evaluation process from the point of view of an employer, hiring manager, and recruiter. There are a number of different types of interviews that hiring managers and recruiters can employ. Here are four more of the most common interview types providing an introductory overview for employer and businesses of types and sizes.
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