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Social Recruiting Essentials, Employer Brand Bliss, and Recruiting Like a Super Hero

April 29

Social recruiting is still confusing for a lot of people.There are so many different networks, strategies, and stats to consider that it is easy to get overwhelmed.This leads many a smart HR professional to put social media on the back burner.Considering job seekers increasing use of social networks to look for work and the role that social media plays in mobile-friendly candidate experience, this tactic just isn’t practical.Which is why I was so happy to see Recruiter.com’s latest As Away feature titled What Do Recruiters Need to Know About Social Media?In it Matthew Kosinski poses this question to a group of recruitment experts: Social recruiting is all the rage — but what do recruiters really need to know about social media……Read More

Social Recruiting With Instagram, Video Recruitment With Your Smart Phone, and Sourcing With Twitter

April 15

Quality over quantity is the key to pretty much everything.Happiness, healthy eating, and, of course, social recruiting!You do not have to incorporate every social network or type of content into your social recruitment strategy in order to be successful.You do have to use the tools that you select well.This week’s top 5 HR and recruiting blog posts will help you do just that!We’ve put together a selection of articles to help you create an excellent recruiting video, source with Twitter, get started on Instagram, and understand content curation.LinkedIn’s Tips to Making a Great Recruitment Video – Casey FleischmannAdding recruiting videos to your social strategy has been shown to significantly boost application volume and ……Read More

Recruiting Trends, Social Media, and How Coffee Makes You Work Better!

April 8

There are few elements so essential to the workday as a cup of coffee. This magical beverage helps us survive boring meetings, early morning shifts, and email overload. And, according to a collaboration by CareerBuilder and Dunkin’ Doughnuts, coffee can even help us build relationships with our coworkers.Coffee Lovers Rejoice: It Could Be Making You Better at Your Job – Lily Herman This infographic provides some excellent excuses for indulging in a coffee break, or two, or three! A strong cup of coffee is also the perfect companion for tackling social media. But this infographic is a strong runner up:How to Manage Your Social Media in 34 Minute a Day – Shortstack Shortstack’s infographic is an excellent step-by-ste……Read More

HR, April Fools’ Day, and Some Awesome Office Pranks!

April 1

Happy April Fools’ Day, if you are lucky enough to live in a country that celebrates it! Unfortunately, the Dutch do not do April Fools’ Day, so I have to indulge vicariously through my Canadian friends and the geniuses at Google. April Fools’ Day is an age-old tradition that can be extremely entertaining, but also somewhat tricky for human resources to navigate! Like Scotland’s version of the holiday, which revolves around pinning fake tails, and kick me signs to each other’s rear ends, a combination that incorporates just enough potential for violence and sexual harassment to make even the most cool and collected of HR managers sweat. Tricky! Humour is relative; one person’s idea of a hilarious prank is another’s cause ……Read More

Human Resources Gone Weird: Quirky Interview Questions & Trolling for Talent!

March 18

I have never been asked a quirky interview question. Not a single one! I’d like to think that if I was I would be able to fire back with a witty answer, but after reading through Glass Door’s list of the strange questions job seekers get asked… I’m not sure how I would fair when faced with the quirkier side of human resources. The questions, gathered from companies in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and France, range from the unusually specific: “Can you calculate how many tennis balls are used during the course of Wimbledon?” – Accenture Analyst job candidate. To the downright weird: "Is batman a super hero?" – AlphaSights. Check out the rest of the questions on the Glassdoor blog.Top Oddball Interview Questi……Read More

Top HR Influencers, Social Recruiting Stats, and Mobile Recruiting with a Side of Guac

March 11

I have never applied for a job via mobile, but the last time I was looking for work Swype Keyboard did not exist, so what do I know?! Personal experience aside, mobile is one of the biggest trends in recruitment. We all know the importance of having a mobile-friendly career site and companies all over the world are investing top dollar in making their application process mobile. The results are mixed. Chipotle recently launched a mobile recruiting app and they’ve seen great results.Now You Can Apply at Chipotle with Your Mobile Device According to this press release, within one month of launching their app, Chipotle has received 5, 000 applications via mobile (approximately 20% of their total application volume.) Chi……Read More

A Cautionary Tale, Blogging to Hire, and The End of Google+ Recruiting

March 4

Before I post this week’s links, I’d like to share with you a cautionary tale of hiring horror.My husband Leif is a UX genius lead product designer by profession, so his particular set of skills and experience are in high demand and very useful when applying for jobs.So useful in fact that someone, let’s call him “John”, claimed Leif’s work for Silk.co (a fantastic data visualization app) as his own in an attempt to prove that he had desirable skills to a potential employer.John also claimed honesty as one of his core values on LinkedIn :/Thankfully the potential employer was smart enough to do a thorough reference check and learned that John had never worked for Silk.This reference check saved the employer a lot of time, money ……Read More

Better Than the Oscars: Recruitment Videos, Social Media, and SEO Recruiting

February 25

I did not watch the Oscars… In fact, I completely forgot about them. Why would anyone choose to spend their evening watching beautiful, talented people be rewarded for great artistic feats when they could be reading about recruiting and human resources?! Why watch Broadway vet Neil Patrick Harris deliver an exciting musical theater performance when you could be watching a video about how to perform in your very own exciting recruiting video?Your Guide to Making a Compelling Recruitment Video – By Rob Humphrey And really, you don’t learn any practical tips about filmmaking by watching the Oscars, whereas blog posts are full of useful movie making advice!17 Essential Elements Of A Successful Millenni……Read More

Social Recruiting for Football, Talent Wars, and A New Employee Referral App

February 18

This morning I was thrilled to find a plethora of share worthy articles in my reader, making compiling this week's Link Love a total breeze. As per usual I’ve put together 5 of the best HR and recruitment related articles to share with you. On a completely unusual note, Sports Illustrated is the source of my pick for #1 blog post of the week!How Social Media is Shaking Up Recruiting; Punt, Pass, and Pork – By Andy Staples Did you know that the NCAA forbids coach-recruit communication on Snapchat? I certainly did not. Andy’s article for Sports Illustrated magazine shares interesting tidbits like this along with a fascinating look at how campus sports recruiters like Matt Dudek, Director of On-Campus Recruiting and Play……Read More

The Best Facebook Recruiting Apps, House of Cards in Your Office, and the Evolution of Work

February 4

I hope you’re all having a fantastic week so far! Here are a few awesome reads to make your workweek even better:Are You Making the Most of Social Media Recruitment? – Sarah Willis Sarah gives some great advice for making sure that you use your social networks to their fullest possible recruitment potential.#FirstInHR: Using the Power of Social to Recruit - HR Kitchen I like this article because it explains the all too often neglected topic of candidate’s rights. Definitely worth a read!New Ways of Working Report: Road Map For How Workplace Will Evolve - China Gorman China Gorman provides a summary of the recently released New Ways of Working report. The report explains what key drivers are changing the……Read More

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