Best of Sales ERE.net Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Ben Gotkin: Recruiting for a Great Unknown ERE junkie Ben Gotkin (he’s on his sixth straight conference), the national recruiting director for the accounting firm RSM McGladrey, led a discussion today about what it’s like to attract candidates to a company that’s “a great unknown,” as he puts it. Among those in the ERE Expo audience was a recruiter from another tax firm, [...] Announcing the Third #socialrecruiting summit Some of you may have already seen the posts around Twitter & Facebook about the third #socialrecruiting summit, coming to Best Buy HQ in Minneapolis on May 17! Earlier today at ERE Expo in San Diego, our Community Director Lance Haun made the official announcement. If you missed it, here is the video: #socialrecruiting summit will be [...] Multitasking, Facebook and ?Up in the Air? HR Top of the morning to you! This is a special ERE Expo/St. Patrick’s Day edition of the community highlights. Here’s what’s going on in the ERE community this week: Multitasking hurts corporate recruiters too Two Facebook accounts? No! Are video interviews going to replace face-to-face interviews? Example RPO agreements Featured group of the week: Sales Recruiting 1. Multitasking Hurts Corporate Recruiters Too Louis [...] Announcements From ERE Expo Jobvite isn’t making a big splash about this, but it has a new social recruiting tool for job seekers. Think of it as a combination of bit.ly, the URL shortening site that allows you to track your links, and Jobvite’s matching service. I only heard about it this morning at Expo, so there has been [...] Optimism Growing, Startups Returning. Could Hiring Be Around the Corner? Optimism returned to the recruiting community in November. That’s what my informal survey here in San Diego at ERE’s Expo tells me. In conversations, people say things like, “We were told last year that we would start hiring again” or “I started seeing reqs from departments that I hadn’t heard from in a year.” The vendors on [...] 2010 ERE Recruiting Excellence Award Winners A big congratulations to this year’s recipients of the ERE Recruiting Excellence Awards. They’ll be in the good company of past winners such as Starbucks, Deloitte, and Enterprise. You’ll hear about the winners in multiple venues, including upcoming articles on this website, as well as at this week’s conference in San Diego, this Fall’s conference in [...] Ladders Subscribers Now Can Get Jobs By Recruiter Today, The Ladders is turning loose MyPipeline, an interesting new service that seems inspired by Twitter. The announcement will be made this morning at the ERE Expo underway in San Diego. Now, subscribers to any of The Ladders’ various job boards can opt to follow specific recruiters and receive their job posts. What makes this different, if [...] SourceCon Has a Grandmaster Sourceress SourceCon is underway and in the spirit of this event dedicated to the art of finding a certain needle in a haystack loaded with other needles, I should probably not tell you who was named the 2010 Grandmaster Sourcer this morning. Instead, follow these clues: United Kingdom, Sourceress, and laundry, cheese, Star Trek, Tea, and Tweetups. If [...] How Candidate Abuse Is Costing Your Firm Millions of Dollars in Revenue A reporter from the Wall Street Journal once asked me what I thought was the greatest secret in recruiting. Such a broad question would usually cause one to ponder, but my immediate response was that abusive hiring processes cost organizations millions of dollars by turning possible customers into lifelong ?haters.? For decades it has been [...] SourceCon and ERE Expo Live Stream Information With many of you already packing and getting ready to head out to San Diego next week for a full week of great recruiting events – SourceCon 2010 and ERE Expo 2010 Spring, the rest of you aren’t totally out of luck. As we have over the past two years, we will be live streaming many [...] Five Scenarios IX: Opportunities I’m looking forward to the conversation in San Diego at ERE. (There’s still time to register if you hurry). With any luck, we’ll do something really interesting. I hope that the articles to date will provide a framework for discussion and brainstorming. The session is at 3:15 on Wednesday the 17th. I’m interested in seeing [...] Why Corporate Recruiting May Be Doomed How different is what you do today from five years ago? Are you able to find and hire top-notch people faster than before? Have you invested in systems, technology, and process improvements to lower costs and improve the speed to find and present qualified candidates? If not, you are clearly lagging behind those who [...] Diversity Recruiting, Candidate Relationships, and HR Bosses Want to get updates from the community delivered straight to your inbox daily? Make sure to subscribe to the community newsletter so you don’t miss a conversation. Here’s what’s going on in the ERE community this week: Are you clueless about diversity recruiting? Developing and nurturing candidate relationships Working for a boss that doesn’t know recruiting Monthly retainers for recruiters How [...] For Gen-Yers, the Conversation?s the Resume The Brazen Careerist has launched an interesting experiment in social recruiting, introducing what the site and its founder Penelope Trunk call a “social resume.” Aimed squarely at the young Gen-Yers for whom Brazen Careerist was designed, the social resumes allow these early career professionals to offer hints at their potential. Besides all the usual biographical stuff [...] Reports Evidence Job Growth About to Begin “Job growth is about to begin,” The Conference Board declared Monday. In the second quarter, says Manpower. “We are already seeing evidence,” insists the Association of Executive Search Consultants. Even coming upon the heels of a robust labor report last week (that fueled a Wall Street mini-rally) these pronouncements probably won’t do much for the pessimists, [...] Characteristics of the Craft Recruiting is clearly not for everyone. Its demands can be extraordinary and its customers unrealistic. Its candidates not entirely truthful and its reward often just the self-satisfied glow of a job well done. By its very nature, recruiting often creates a sense of contrast and contradiction. Hiring managers want the perfect candidate for the lowest price; [...] One-to-One Recruiting: The Importance of Personalizing All Aspects of Recruiting The most powerful recruiting advertisement I?ve seen in the last two years didn’t originate from Google and it wasn’t found on a social media site; instead it was a ?take your breath away? billboard designed to attract a single person. Usually billboards are a complete waste of money, but this one dared to go where no [...] Sneak Peak At the Week Ahead Here is what is going on around the ERE.net world this week: Sign up for this week’s free webinar on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. ET, Going from Good To ‘Elite’!: Becoming an Elite Recruiter, led by David Szary from the Recruiter Academy. David will discuss the competencies, skills, attributes and work habits of elite recruiters. We are [...] Unemployment Holds Steady As Jobs Growth Appears Near 9.7 percent and holding steady. Net job loss in February 2010: 36,000. Net job loss in February 2009: 726,000. That’s the top line of the monthly Labor Department’s employment numbers for February. The results surprised most economists who had been expecting a higher job loss because of the snowstorms that crippled big parts of the U.S. [...] Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter At the ERE Expo in San Diego, March 15-17, 2010, I?ll be describing what it takes to be a true corporate headhunter. This is a recruiter who can go head to head with his or her external rivals without compromising quality of hire or time to fill. To pull it off though, you?ll have to [...] [ Back ]

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