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Article found on Human Resource Executive Online In a Q&A, Talent Function Group’s Elaine Orler, a featured presenter at the upcoming HR Technology® Conference, sits down with Inside HR Tech Columnist and HR Technology®Conference Co-Chair Steve Boese to share her views on the complex and ever-changing world of recruiting technology. It’s no surprise that the traditional leading source of innovation in HR technology is in the area of recruiting. Organizations have long realized that, in the intense environment that is today’s competition for the best talent, technologies that can help them source, attract, engage, assess and hire can also offer them [...]

Article found on CollegeRecruiter.com Does your company deliver a candidate experience that is easily understood and constantly providing a positive experience for everyone involved in the hiring process?  If not, you’re probably missing out on top talent for your business.  The last thing you want to do is leave job seekers uncertain of where they stand in the hopes of landing a new position, therefore, opening the door to criticism of your company. The Bozzuto Group, is a privately held, integrated real estate services organization. According to Bozzuto, the company creates quality homes and extraordinary communities—some 35,000 residences to date—while [...]

Article found on Smashfly Recruitment Marketing Technology Blog Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we’ll be talking about candidate experience, story telling, employee referrals, veteran recruiting and social media numbers. Read full article here…  

by Kevin W. Grossman, Talent Culture World of Network The hiring scene today is like two sides of a rolling coin. On one side, five generations of diverse candidates are clamoring for what’s on the other side — a mash-up of full-time, part-time, outsourced and freelance jobs that continue to be redefined on-the-fly by disruptive economic, business and technology forces. This controlled chaos challenges job seekers to demonstrate professional value through new social channels — while simultaneously challenging employers to recruit the right talent through those same social channels. It sounds like a perfect candidate fit should be easy to [...]

Article by Meghan M. Biro, Contributor, on Forbes.com When I made my first foray into the big bad job market, I had some pretty crummy experiences. Sending out my resume, leaving a follow-up phone message and then getting in response: nothing, nada, zip. Not even the courtesy of a cursory “No, thanks.” Or being interviewed by an underling with sadistic impulses who asked me rote questions and then barely paid attention to my answers. I came away from those experiences and others equally demeaning with a real respect for the companies that treated me like a serious adult with something [...]

Presentation by Chris Galy of Intuit at the May 13, 2013 College Recruiting Bootcamp

A reminder that less than a month is left to register and apply for the 2013 CandidateExperience Awards. There is an industry-wide, ‘big data’ effort to better define, measure and bench US and UK (hopefully more countries will be on board soon) candidate experience practices. The opportunity to do so is free and is now available at the CandEs Website until the end of June. Whether you compete to be among the 2013 award winners honored in October at the HRTechnology conference or, remain anonymous and simply benchmark with those who do compete and win, you are contributing to the [...]

Article by Elaine Orler found on Ere.net There have been several recent articles on the importance and, in some cases the lack of attention on, the candidate experience. One article goes so far as to call out the Candidate Experience Award winners and question why they are silent on the topic. As the chairman of Talent Board, the nonprofit organization that delivers theCandidate Experience Awardseach year, there is plenty I can say about the power of a positive candidate experience… 

by Lance Haun on lancehaun.com I was asked to chair this week’s Recruiting Innovation Summit, put on by my former employer ERE Media. At it, we explored some of the leading edge ideas from people who are as passionate about making recruiting better as I am. It was also the first time I ever emceed an event. That experience is probably another post altogether… To read full article, click here…  

by Case-Mate Careers We recently posted a position for a Director of Information Technology. I received 328 resumes within 12 days, schedule 7 interviews and have made it half way through the interviewing process. So what about the 321 candidates not selected? The honest answer; it’s impossible to go through every single resume. The 7 selected for the next phase of the process were due to the following reasons; To read the full article, click here…