Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall - Straight Talk on Today's Recruiting Issues

Straight Talk on Today's Recruiting Issues

The Best Stuff

- Key Discussion on hiring ROI - plus
1) Webinar: Using LinkedIn to Source Passive Candidates
2) COOL Survey: 2010 Hiring Trends.
3) Tiny Survey: Is Hiring on the Rebound?
4) Mini-survey: "Does Twitter Work for Recruiting".

Latest Articles

Sourcing Trends and Predictions 2010

How to Activate the Best Passive Candidates in the Federation

A Hiring Manager's Bill of Rights - An Open Letter to My Recruiter Article June 10 2009

Can Your Company Hire A-level Talent?

More…

Blog Posts

New Study Shows Leading Edge Companies Receive Failing Grade at HR SEO Strategies

ATLANTA GA – Sharkstrike, the leading provider of passive candidate strategy, completed and released a new white paper that focused on corporate career sites and their lack of keyword research and prominent placement in search engines to capture the right candidate audience.

“By examining the top 5 companies in the world’s careers pages we understood quite quickly that a common marketing tactic is being ignored by human resources and recruiting strategies to capture more candidates to their car… Continue

Posted by Jason Gorham on July 3, 2009 at 9:28am

Now that you've tweeted your job...

So you’ve just tweeted your job… what do you do next? Well you can’t do what you normally do… ignore them using your ATS. Twitter is all about creating a relationship and in tweeting you just elevated your recruiting, so elevate your response. Have a dialogue with them. That’s the purpose of Social Networking, regardless of the vehicle, Twitter or Facebook. People, and especially now your target candidates, are looking for a meaningful exchanges with individuals. These aren’t one way tools. Your… Continue

Posted by Steffan Martell on June 30, 2009 at 2:41pm

Twitter Survey Results and Ideas

Few people are having any luck with using Twitter to source candidates.(take survey and see results - links in upper left).

However, it does have some value. Please comment on this in 140 characters or less:
1. great way to send creative msg to followers with links to talent hubs

Posted by Lou Adler on June 18, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Sourcing and Recruiting

The purpose of this site will be to discuss evarything related to recruiting, sourcing, and hiring. Join the fray - it will make you a better recruiter. As far as I'm concerned the key to great recruiting is getting better and trying new things.

- Lou Adler

Forum

The state of live mega conferences and the economy 2 Replies

What are your thoughts? There are only 7000 people attending the 2009 national conference vs. 21000 in Las Vegas in 2007. Onrec and Kennedy are merging their fall conference - is ERE next? Are live...

Tagged: Kennedy, Onrec, ERE, SHRM

Started by Lou Adler. Last reply by Lou Adler 1 day ago.

Passive Candidate Recruiting Secrets - Contest! 1 Reply

For an upcoming ERE article I'm putting together a list of secrets to recruit A-level passive candidates. Here's the start - if you add you own and they're worthy - I'll include your tip in the art...

Started by Lou Adler. Last reply by Chuck Clevenger Jun 30.

Irina's Upcoming webinars, updated schedule

Webinars and DVDs: Boolean I, II, and Twitter I found the webinar very informative. Great stuff!” Brian. Thanks for checking this out :)

Tagged: Twitter, Boolean

Started by Irina Shamaeva Jun 29.

Calculating Hiring ROI by quality and sourcing channel

Here’s a version of an email recently sent to those asking for more info on how to calculate ROI by candidate quality and sourcing channel. This was mentioned in a recent ERE article on predicting ...

Tagged: performance-based, hiring, Adler, quality, candidate

Started by Lou Adler Jun 29.

Sales Assessment tools

Hello, I have been asked by my client to find a good tool to predict sales performance. I am teaching them what I know about Lou's methodology for hiring, but they also want a success predictor too...

Started by Deb Hiner Jun 29.

CRM's for sourcing 3 Replies

I would like to get peoples opinions on CRM products currently on the market, such as Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce.com, etc. I'm looking for feedback on any of these products for sourcing/recruit...

Started by Mark Rinovato. Last reply by Chris Prosser Jun 28.

Using LinkedIn Recruiter to Source Passive Candidates

Last week (June 17th) I conducted a webinar through LinkedIn demonstrating their corporate recruiter product. This webinar is now available online. Here's the link. There are some useful tips on ho...

Started by Lou Adler Jun 23.

Sourcing Predictions - New Survey Launched June 21, 2009

Is your company a progressive or traditionalist when it comes to sourcing? This new survey will help establish the new winners and clarify which technologies will drive sourcing over the next few y...

Tagged: LinkedIn, hubs, talent, sourcing

Started by Lou Adler Jun 20.

module 1 of Recruiter Boot Camp - how to really take the assignment and win the heart and mind of your hiring managers. 1 Reply

Jennifer and Lou: Boot Camp Module One about how to really take the assignment and win the heart and mind of your hiring managers sounds like it will make us more effective. We would welcome the ch...

Tagged: One, Module, Camp, Boot

Started by Steve Larkin. Last reply by Lou Adler Jun 19.

Broadlook - the new sourcing tool in town 5 Replies

Broadlook has been around awhile. We're planning on doing an online review of the product on July 30. Has anyone used it? Your comments would be helpful. The product seems robust and it's starting ...

Tagged: networking, media, social, broadlook

Started by Lou Adler. Last reply by Irina Shamaeva Jun 30.

Latest Activity

Siman A. Qaasim, Cori, Irina Shamaeva and 3 more were featured19 hours ago

Tushar Kale, Yvette Kamperin, Dan Martinek and 13 more joined Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall20 hours ago

Yvette Kamperin updated their profile23 hours ago

Jason Gorham added a blog postyesterday

New Study Shows Leading Edge Companies Receive Failing Grade at HR SEO Strategies

Siman A. Qaasim left a comment for Lou Adleryesterday

Lou Adler replied to Lou Adler's discussion 'The state of live mega conferences and the economy'yesterday

While a very small sample, the few who attended SHRM thought the program was the best ever. However, the bigger question is "are big live conferences the best was to learn what's going on?" Perhaps, online targeted approaches are best? If we're go...

Lou Adler left a comment for Siman A. Qaasimyesterday

John Vlastelica commented on Lou Adler's video 'Sourcing Passive Candidates'on Thursday

Hey Lou - Thanks for sharing this. I talk about something similar in some training I offer recruiters and hiring managers. Too often, managers want a candidate to have EVERYTHING - they must "hit the ground running". I always counter with, "Why wo...