When economic hardship rears its ugly head, recruiting is among the first department to get squeezed.  Recruiting professionals are expected to face tougher and tougher challenges with fewer and fewer resources, but Industry Expert Lou Adler is hosting a free webinar to help you do just that.  You can read more and register here. The basics are:

Do More With Less! The shift is on to Web 3.0, and TalentSeekr is leading the way. Imagine changing your sourcing channels on the fly automatically to maximize talent quality while minimizing your advertising budget.
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Kevin Wheeler gives his advice on what top recruiters need to be doing to evolve with the times and stay effective. Pretty awesome with a strong position on moving online.
“Tomorrow belongs to recruiters who embrace such emerging practices as social networking, video interviewing, online assessment, and candidate relationship management. Recruiters experimenting with virtual communities and with building online relationships already have a advantage over the recruiter who is tied to geography and to face-to face meetings.” -Kevin Wheeler
See the full article here
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This article talks about how to approach recruiting in a way that might better attract top talent. The current method of accepting resumes, filing them in a black hole and “promising” a phone call is what everyone deals with. But Hank Stringer says
“…Will this work in a market where there is not enough talent?”
Find the full article here.

Next month (August 2009) online recruiting will have been around for 17 years, but are we any better off today than we were back then?
Resume inundation and candidate management are difficult tasks to manage, even with the most-robust ATS or CRM systems, and the sharpest recruiters.
But, as best-laid plans often go, the more systems and processes companies put in place to handle applicant/candidate flow, often the very goal of those systems gets lost:
“Attracting and engaging top candidates, keeping them aware and informed of opportunities, and then hiring them into the …