Category: Sourcing and Screening

  • Sourcing and CRM: 4 Candidate Relationship Management Fundamentals

    Sourcing and CRM: 4 Candidate Relationship Management Fundamentals

    As if talent acquisition teams didn’t have enough on their plates with finding qualified candidates and getting them in the door, they’re now expected to attract and engage talent on an ongoing basis.In order to accomplish this task while keeping up with their day-to-day responsibilities, some have drawn inspiration from customer relationship management techniques used by marketers and salespeople…

  • The Five Elements of A High Performing Sourcing Strategy

    The Five Elements of A High Performing Sourcing Strategy

    Of all the stages of talent acquisition, sourcing is perhaps the most dynamic – and this is evident in how rapidly the use cases for sourcing technology are evolving and changing. The emergence of social technology has had an especially profound impact. The Source Stage is the culmination of all efforts to find and engage…

  • Sourcing Your Way To A New Job Through Social Stalking

    Sourcing Your Way To A New Job Through Social Stalking

    Recruiters talk a lot about ‘candidate experience,’ but here’s a chance to actually get feedback (or at least get noticed) if you’re a job seeker. This is a real life example, so my apologies to my target, but again, all information here is publicly available. For this exercise, I went looking for potential examples on…

  • How To Pack Your Pipeline: Sourcing & Social Media

    How To Pack Your Pipeline: Sourcing & Social Media

    I’ve spent the last six years recruiting with social media, and watched as platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook continue to experiment and evolve to the point where these emerging networks are not only a peripheral tool, but an essential part of any recruiter’s job. Social media not only represents a real replacement for expensive, often…

  • Enterprise Search for Sourcing & Recruiting

    Enterprise Search for Sourcing & Recruiting

    The increasing overlap, and potentially inextricable intertwining of recruitment and marketing has been a central theme in the HR industry, the subject of a prodigal amount of product marketing, ‘thought leadership’ content and corporate copy. The confluence of recruiting and marketing has, in fact, become a central focus in competing for top talent, with concepts…

  • 4 Sourcing Secrets for College Recruiting Success

    4 Sourcing Secrets for College Recruiting Success

    Youth unemployment is never out of the news, and with the dawn of the New Year, it doesn’t look likely to change. Many employers fall into the trap of thinking this means they will get the pick of the litter when it comes to recruiting June’s top graduates, but this isn’t the case, as getting…

  • Outsourcing Your Brand: When Sourcing Meets Marketing

    Outsourcing Your Brand: When Sourcing Meets Marketing

    With the rise of social media, the increased importance on employer branding and increasingly sophisticated sourcing tools and techniques, successful recruiting today requires increased complexity. As employers embrace these best practices, they’ve also increasingly embraced recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) as a core component of their core talent acquisition strategy.  The convergence of these two talent…

  • How to Beat the Automated Resume Screening System and Get Hired

    How to Beat the Automated Resume Screening System and Get Hired

    How to Beat the Automated Resume Screening System and Get Hired » Toronto, Ontario, Canada (PRWEB) March 20, 2012 Job-hunters are frustrated by the automated screening systems being used by many employers. Their resumes are not getting through and not being reviewed by a human screener. Job hunters are being warned in the media and…