Over the last few weeks ive been organising bookmarks and reviewing some recent and older posts. I thought id compile a few of my favourites:
Recruiting Innovation Summit ‘11 (Facebook HQ – Oct 24, 2011 )
Watch presentations from the session or view the slides & handouts
Why Sourcing is Superior to Posting Jobs for Talent (Boolean Black Belt – June 20, 2011)
“As a passive, zero-percent control strategy, you simply cannot control who responds – unqualified, under qualified, over qualified, out of area, etc.”
Recruiting’s Blunder of Epic Proportions: Ignoring Mobile (ere.net – Oct 10, 2011)
“The dominance of the mobile device has been a trend barreling toward us with considerable speed for some time… Among the Fortune 100, only one allows you to actually apply from a mobile device. That one is Raytheon…”
We Did Something About the Candidate Experience (ere.net – Nov 1, 2011)
“79% of candidates who apply for a position expect that there will be some sort of feedback, but only 19% of the top 100 companies to work for let the mystery candidate know they were not going to get the job”
How Dead is the ATS? Long Live the CRM (Inside TMT – Oct 25, 2011 )
“There are been several developments lately that make me wonder if the ATS will soon be on life support”
For Adidas, QR Codes Are Already a Big Thing (ere.net – Dec 7, 2011)
“Trade-show goers are often with their bosses, and not able to talk jobs. Using Avature, adidas built a portal to capture some of these passive candidates.”
Lou’s Rules for Recruiting Passive Candidates (ere.net – Jan 5, 2012)
“83% of fully employed members classified themselves as passive candidates. The process for finding, recruiting, and hiring passive candidates is fundamentally different from the one used for active candidates. If hiring great people is important to your company’s success, the process used to recruit passive candidates should become your company’s default method, not the exception.”