Archive for March, 2012

Top 15 Common Talent Sourcing Mistakes

Tweet Practically everything I have learned about sourcing and recruiting didn’t come from a mentor or any formal training. Instead, I learned how to become a top performing recruiter “the hard way.” What that really means is that when it came to finding top talent, I tried a lot of things that didn’t work, and [...]

Mistakes, Social Recruiting, Sourcing, Sourcing and Recruiting, Sourcing Mistakes

The 50 Largest LinkedIn Groups

Tweet At the time of this article, there were 1,236,675 LinkedIn groups. With so many groups, how do you find and choose which groups to join? Depending on your LinkedIn group strategy, you may be interested in finding the largest groups of a specific type. LinkedIn groups are very searchable, and when you start typing [...]

LinkedIn, LinkedIn Groups

The Talent Community Connundrum

Tweet First it was social recruiting, then it was mobile recruiting. Now talent communities are apparently the latest cure for all of your talent troubles. One the surface, the talent community concept seems like a brilliant “no brainer.” However, like Socrates, I believe there is value in questioning everything. So when I start seeing  a strong [...]

Talent Communities