Online Recruiting
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Beyond.com Buys Job Board, Career Fair Operator
Beyond.com acquired Human Capital Solutions LLC, which does business as JobCircle.com, a job board that serves the mid-Atlantic area and has more than 1.3 million registered members.
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Inaugural Virtual Career Fair for Veterans Gets a Salute from Employers
Chicago-based energy provider Exelon was among the 24 companies across the United States that participated in the October event. About 1,100 veterans visited Exelon during the job fair, 205 of whom were in states where Exelon has openings.
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Facebook Launches Social Jobs App
The app provides a central location where recruiters post open positions sorted by industry, location and skills. The app launched yesterday with more than 1.7 million employment opportunities provided by BranchOut, DirectEmployers, Work4Labs, Jobvite and Monster.com.
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It’s in the New Game: How Electronic Arts Revamped Recruiting, Itself
To shift from retail to online sales, the game-maker used LinkedIn, other tools to hire creatively as part of a global talent overhaul.
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LinkedIn Locks Up Major Recruiting Market Share
In four years, the 187 million member business network has amassed 13,700 corporate customers for its recruiting software and related services.
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LinkedIn Recruiter Software Offers New Features
New features let LinkedIn's corporate customers measure their effectiveness on the network, among other things.
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Social Referrals Could Be the Best Hire Money Can Buy
Recruiters across industries know that referrals generally deliver the best candidates, and now thanks to social media sites, they are cheaper and easier to find.
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Recruiting Software Goes Social
Over the past several months, software vendors across the industry have announced social-recruiting releases and acquisitions.
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Study: Generational Job Seekers Aren't Using All Their Tools
Recruiters take note: Baby boomers, Gen X and millennials are spending almost all their time job searching online instead of offline. Boomers turn to LinkedIn first, while Gen X and millennials are first using Google and Google Plus.
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Screen Savior
In the quest for the perfect candidate, many companies rely too much on software to weed out applicants, experts say. It could be one reason qualified candidates are being overlooked for good jobs.
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Awarding Companies for Engaging Candidates
In 2011, the TalentBoard, a San Francisco not-for-profit founded by talent management experts, released its first set of Candidate Experience Awards, recognizing companies with model recruiting programs, and the board is in the process of selecting a second set of winners for 2012.
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Study: 24 Percent in U.S. Prefer Social Media for Job Search
Twelve percent of U.S. employees approved of personal use of social media at work, but 51 percent say social media has a negative impact on workplace productivity.
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LinkedIn Tops Social Sites for Recruiting: Report
Seventy-seven percent of job openings are shared on LinkedIn, followed by Twitter at 54 percent. Facebook came in third with 25 percent.
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Alternative Recruiting Strategies Employed by Companies Vying for Top Tech Talent
One company has taken its guerrilla recruitment beyond mere social media with its popular Code Foo challenge—a 'no résumés allowed' recruitment program aimed at finding extraordinary coding talent regardless of educational background, college degree or experience.
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Monster Posts Sale Signs as Numbers Continue to Tumble
Assault from niche boards and social sites are gobbling up bigger bites of the once-mighty job board industry.
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CareerBuilder Buys Top Language Jobs
Top Language Jobs, which is based in London, operates in more than 25 countries, including across Europe and in the U.S.
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Recruiting and Recruiting Technology Ticks Upward
Through the use of recruiting software, organizations help speed the process along.
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Hiring Plans Forecast to Reach 2008 Levels
Hiring plans of U.S. employers for the second quarter are the highest since 2008, according to the new employment outlook survey released today by ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), one of the world's largest staffing firms.
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Lagging Economy Aside, Interviewees Say the Darndest Things
Job board giant CareerBuilder listed some of the most unusual interview experiences based on an online survey of more than 3,000 employers.
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Labor Department Guide Helps Women Find Green Jobs
The guide focuses on helping workers learn about a range of in-demand and emerging jobs, as well as job training opportunities and career development tools, the agency said.
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Help Wanted: Vets, Foreign Workers Sought by U.S. Organizations
A new SHRM survey, ‘Global Competition and Hiring Strategies,' marks the third and final survey in a series by SHRM that explores the ongoing impact of the recession.
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Six Facebook Recruiting Apps
Use these tools to advertise job openings and mine the social network for prospects.
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Data Bank Focus: Hiring future leaders
Based on unemployment data, it appears that the war for talent continues in management, business, financial operations and professional occupations. In those fields, unemployment is consistently far below the national average.
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Experts Still Warn to Beware of Information from Social Media when Hiring
There is 'so much information that's available out there' that the employer has to filter out the information to be sure it does not learn about issues it should not know about, such as religion and politics, panel contends.
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Video Interviewing Cuts Costs, but Bias Worries Linger
One recruiter says that since incorporating online interviews she has cut spending from about $10,000 per search to roughly $500. Yet an employment lawyer advises clients to proceed with caution when using it.
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Trader Scandal May Hamstring UBS' Recruiting
The $2.3 billion loss the London-based trader allegedly managed to accumulate will make things difficult for the bank's wealth management business, recruiters said.
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New Tools Cast a Wider Social Network for Recruiters
With the launch of BranchOut in July 2010 and BeKnown and Google Plus, which made their debuts in June, recruiters are trying to decide how to best use a dizzying array of tools to find top talent.
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Qualified Applicant Pool Fills Fast When Employers Use the Right Keywords
To increase a job’s likelihood of being noticed, HR practitioners must first research what keywords are commonly used as it relates to that position.
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Headhunter Firm Taps Insider Trina Gordon for CEO
She succeeds Chris Clarke, who stepped down in December after 11 years with Boyden World Corp. The firm also named Gerhard Raisig to chairman from interim chairman and managing partner of Boyden Germany.
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Marriott Hopes to Win With Facebook Game
The novel interactive game, called My Marriott Hotel, was born out of the mega-hospitality corporation’s quest to fill 50,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2011.
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Out of Site: Remote Possibilities
More employers are benefiting from a mobile workforce through improved productivity, increased employee satisfaction and reduced costs, but they also face new management challenges.
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Companies Look to Capitalize on Viral Voices
Thanks in part to the explosion of social media, more employers are capitalizing on the credibility and power of employee word-of-mouth.
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Survey Shows Talent Shortage Grows Despite High Unemployment
The annual Talent Shortage Survey shows that 52 percent of U.S. employers are experiencing difficulty filling key positions within their organizations, up from 14 percent in 2010.
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Is There a Bias Against Hiring the Jobless?
Experts contend that employers increasingly discriminate against jobless Americans in hiring decisions, and such practices could violate equal opportunity laws.
