Category: Recruiting Products
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Yatedo: Personal Search Goes Global
While free profile aggregation tools such as Pipl or Spokeo, have been established recruiting resources for years, this suddenly hot category has seen an explosion of emerging (premium) platforms looking to improve – and monetize – the personal search arena. Yatedo, however, represents a dramatic improvement on many emerging and established entries in this category,…
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Lies, Damn Lies & LinkedIn
LinkedIn’s recent announcement that the company had surpassed the 300 million registered user mark sounds pretty impressive, considering that means that their online population pretty much parallels that of the United States. This comes about 5 quarters after reaching 200 million users in January 2013, impressive growth considering that LinkedIn, founded in 2003, only celebrated its 100 millionth…
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When Will We Stop Talking About Social Recruiting?
Social technology has had a huge impact on the enterprise. From the way we do business to the way we find business – it’s changed many things.In recruiting, it’s changed the way we source talent, the way we assess candidates, not to mention the way candidates assess us. There are still many organizations only dabbling in social…
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Intelligent Resume Search: How Boolean Basics Outperform Paid Tools
Intelligent Search Agents, a DC based staffing company specializing in combining “easy and affordable tools” with “expert support” for small business staffing, has recently released a new tool called Internet Resume Search. This seemingly simple tool was developed to do pretty much exactly what the name implies: searching and returning resumes from sites like Google, Bing,…
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Top 5 Secrets for LinkedIn Success
Okay, you’ve created your LinkedIn profile, updated all of your past experience and education, so you’re all set to go, right? Wrong. If you don’t actually DO something with your LinkedIn account and make the most of it, then you’re missing out. Here’s what your REALLY need to know about LinkedIn to land that dream job.…
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Google Introduces Auto-Awesome for Resumes
Move over, resume writers and career coaches. You may finally have met your match. Looks like Google has finally entered the recruiting game with some serious tech that’s going to change the way job seekers find employers – and employers find job seekers. Although, interestingly enough, it still looks like the company that’s innovative enough…
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Let’s Talk About Tech: A Conversation with Dice President Shravan Goli
If you’ve attended an HR conference, networking event or are even the most casual consumer of social media and online content related to tech hiring best practices, chances are you know all about Dice Open Web. The company’s blitzkrieg branding efforts, carefully orchestrated industry outreach and highly targeted, recruiter-focused online and social marketing were backed…
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Bullhorn S Release Hits Bullseye
Winning market share in the extremely crowded, hypercompetitive marketplace of applicant tracking system (ATS) providers has become increasingly difficult for emerging and established players alike. Even as SaaS delivery moves from the margins to the mainstream, ostensibly cutting costs and time associated with system implementation and integration, the battle for ATS customers has created an…
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Data Security Risks Look More Like Your Employee than a Basement Hacker
Data security is a constant hassle. Businesses are in a never-ending fight to insure that they protect themselves from data risks, but sometimes it feels like a losing battle. Media sensation points fingers at hackers and reinforces the “dangerous outsider with malicious intent” narrative of data theft, but this narrative ignores the largest data risk…
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How To Remove A LinkedIn Contact
You’ve probably done it on Facebook and you’ve definitely done it on Twitter, but have you ever removed a LinkedIn contact? I myself have performed a Facebook “friend” cull after one too many primary school “friends” annoying dessert Instagrams began clogging up my newsfeed. I’ve also had to unfollow many’s the annoying celebrity on Twitter…