All of your time and money for recruiting gets funneled into a career site and an ATS.  Did you know that on average 98% of those people leave the career site without filling out an application?
Cade Krueger, VP of Marketing and Sales, discusses several ways for you to figure out your recruitment process red flags and how to properly fix them.  The webinar also covers several external options you can use to get a bigger return on your sourcing investments.
EnticeLabs: Webinar
Length: 40 minutes.*

You’re Bleeding Candidates: Three Steps to Improving Your …

Grant Gordon, Director of Product Development, joins Cade Krueger, VP of Sales and Business Development to discuss the direction of Online Advertising and how that impacts Recruitment Advertising in 2010 relative to traditional methods recruiters are used to. They chat about the difference of online behavior in 2010 compared to the 90’s and how recruiters need to shift their focus to get in front of the right candidates.
EnticeLabs: Webinar
Length: 40 minutes.*

Start Recruiting Like It Is 2010

This is a cool article that cites some real examples of companies using social media tools to improve internal communications. Social media is such an often discussed premise that is difficult to know exactly how to use effectively. They also include suggestions on how to implement and ensure appropriate usage of different tools. It’s good adoptable information.
Read the full article here.

The feature on TechCrunch has started a tidal wave of coverage. John Zappe, the author, has a great understanding of what we do and how it works. Great article, Thanks John.
“(The) heuristic capability sets TalentSeekr apart from mere monitoring systems that provide lots of information but don’t act on it. With the potential of having an ad appear on hundreds, thousands, and even more websites, being able to make changes on the fly can save money on PPC postings and improve the quality of the candidates overall.”  -  John Zappe
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TalentSeekr was just hi-lighted on TechCrunch! Erick Schonfeld acknowledges the shift away from job boards and to targeted online recruiting campaigns!!
“So if the best candidates won’t seek out job openings on employment sites, the jobs need to seek them out.” – Erick Schonfeld
See Full Article Here.

Countercyclical Hiring: Why now is the best time for top talent acquisition. Industry expert John Sullivan talks about how the current economy has provided a confluence of factors that, if leveraged, can improve your talent pool exponentially. Most companies are doing less recruiting and hiring, creating an opportunity to be capitalized on by strategic thinkers.
“Being strategic always requires some degree of unconventional thinking. If you are a corporate recruiting manager and you are looking for an opportunity to have a strategic impact, you need to understand why today is literally …

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.
Highlights:
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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 …

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 …

It’s a line from Management 101, “Your greatest assets are your employees.”
And, while the headlines on the evening news rant about mounting layoffs and the economy’s depressing statistics, the smartest, most savvy companies are quietly leveraging this downturn with expectations to come out of it not just barely ahead of their competition–they will be lightyears ahead.
Already, we are seeing signs that companies have been too fast to layoff, and now are waking up to a bitter reality that may have lost their best-talent–and their competitive advantage–in their rush to action.
Michelle …