We just found out about this webinar with Kevin Wheeler. Find out more and register here: http://www.futureoftalent.org/2010-Trends-Outlook.html
From his description:
Kevin will take you on a journey to explore the emerging workforce trends and how they’ll influence your talent strategy. As founder of the Future of Talent Institute, Kevin brings to the forefront trends that influence talent management and recruiting practices. Kevin’s work is always evolving and will provide you with the information needed to on the emerging influencing how companies can architect a holistic approach to engaging …

New research shows a 33% increase in advertising effectiveness with a combination of targeted social media advertising with classic paid search advertising! This is support for TalentSeekr as this is the same model that it employs. Building brand awareness is most effective with multiple campaigns, using a variety of media, and targeted to different places and groups.
“Users were almost three times as likely to search after seeing influenced social media plus paid search, compared with paid search ads alone.”         -eMarketer
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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
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Hello everyone!
I think we all agree that the Tweetup was a fabulous success… Kudos to Jobscience! It’s always fun to see familiar faces, and we really enjoyed meeting up in person with so many of you finally! I hope you enjoy the pictures. I am posting all the pictures as a batch initially, but if there are pictures that you prefer not to have posted, I completely understand- just ping me and I can edit the deck. J I will post pictures from the Google Conference tomorrow probably, so look …