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TalentBin Pulls Together Talent Profiles To Make Sourcing A Snap

TalentBin officially launched from private beta to public this week. The service, which bills itself as a talent search engine, said it “just turned the entire professional web into the largest talent...

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Monster Gets More Social Adding “Friends” To Its Listings

Monster took another step last week in its drive to become more social adding a “friends” connection to the thousands of listings on its jobs board. Almost a year after launching BeKnown, its...

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Five (Inexpensive Or Free) Cloud-Based Productivity Tools For Recruiters

When I talk to people about what tools they use on a day-to-day basis, they usually default to the recruiting specific tools they use. They might be trying out something new or maybe they are...

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Free Apps To Help You Work More Efficiently and Save Time

If you’ve ever wished for an extra hour in the day or, in a moment of utter frustration, though, “There has to be a better way,” then good news. For some things recruiting, there are. In this...

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Recruiting Software Company Bullhorn Acquired

Bullhorn, the software company that powers much of the staffing and SMB recruiting market, has been acquired by Vista Equity Partners for a reported nine-figure sum. The Boston-based tech firm...

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Get A Free ATS From the Company That ‘Aims To Do It All’

The site that “aims to do a bit of everything” is doing a bit more this morning.  And it’s an interesting something more that takes its cue from direct hire recruiting. Launching this morning, and only...

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Reports Says Facebook is Preparing to Launch A Jobs Service

You likely heard by now that according to Dow Jones Newswires, Facebook will be launching its own jobs board as soon as August. While details about the planned move are sketchy at this point, it is...

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LinkedIn Profiles: Puffery Or Outright Fraud?

Scott Thompson was forced out of Yahoo after his resume embellishment was discovered. There’s been an unsettling trend in business over the last decade or so to make every member of the workforce...

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Why You Need To Include Google+ In Your Recruiting Strategy

The Importance of Google+ as a Tool for Recruitment Agencies As a recruiter, you may be well versed in social media and its relation to your work and matching clients with jobs. LinkedIn generally is...

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If You Aren’t Becoming Mobile, You’re Going to be Left Behind

It shouldn’t be news now that smartphone use is big (and is getting bigger). In late 2012, estimates pegged the number at over a billion smartphones with that number doubling by 2015. If you’re a...

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Your Clients Are Video Interviewing and So Should You

With the popularity of video interviewing soaring on the corporate side, now is the time for agency and independent recruiters to give it a try. The advantages of using video to meet and vet your top...

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LinkedIn Adds A Recommendation Feature

New LinkedIn Recruiter Sporting a new look and with some new features — including a recommendation engine that ‘learns’ the kind of people a recruiter most want — LinkedIn Recruiter is getting an...

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Online Courses Can Help Your Tech Candidates Fill In the Gaps

There are plenty of good tech jobs being advertised everyday. The problem is, the glut of unemployed, college-educated professionals available to fill them aren’t qualified. American companies will...

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A 99-cent ATS That Will “Change the Face of Recruiting”

The language is lofty: a new applicant tracking system claims it will “change the face of the recruiting business.” We’re not sure we buy that yet, but FindHire is certainly worth a look. And at 99...

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TalentBin Pulls Together Talent Profiles To Make Sourcing A Snap

TalentBin officially launched from private beta to public this week. The service, which bills itself as a talent search engine, said it “just turned the entire professional web into the largest talent...

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Five (Inexpensive Or Free) Cloud-Based Productivity Tools For Recruiters

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A Mobile App Sampler For Recruting On the Go

As someone who is obsessed with mobile and how it can help recruiters and sourcers find and connect with more candidates, I ask you, why aren’t there more apps for recruiters? If you search the app...

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Old Technology Is Costing You Real Money In Lost Productivity

There’s a word in the recruiting and staffing industry that nobody likes. No one wants to think about it, no one likes to talk about it, and no one really knows a good way to deal with it: downtime....

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Is It Time to Ditch the Phone Interview?

In the 1870s, we were first able to transmit speech electronically, thanks to Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray. Before then, we relied on hand-delivered messages and in-person communication, much...

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