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HANDOUT for LinkedIn webcast, June 22, 2010 - "Measuring the Financial Impact of Hiring Top People"

Handout for "Jobs2Web User Conference June 2010 - Sourcing Strategies and Technology"

Handout for Chicago SMA talk - Rank Yourself Using the 10-factor Corporate Recruiter Scorecard.

Handout for Jobvite webcast - May 6, 2010 - Implementing PERP: Proactive Employee Referral Programs

HANDOUT for LinkedIn Recruiter customer seminar on 3/25/2010 - The Evolution of a Corporate Headhunter

Recording of Great Debate (3/25/2010) - "Does BEI Prevent Companies from Hiring Top Talent?"

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Leslie Barker is now a member of Lou Adler's Recruiter's Wall
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One of my favorite sourcing techniques is to seek out message boards or on-line communities where the talent I'm seeking is likely to "hang out". For example, ITToolbox.com for IT professionals, Wimax360 for certain telecom professionals. I join the…
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Susan J Wojtkowski Weighing two job offers now...great co's, interesting work, similar base...hmmmmm
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Sourcing and Recruiting

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Lou Adler

My 15 favorite passive candidate referral generating techniques 3 Replies

I just written two articles about networking and getting referrals from passive candidates. One was written for ERE and will up on July 30. The other was part of our weekly hot tips letters. Both art…

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Steve Fedewa 1 day ago.

Irina Shamaeva

Tweeple in Recruiting and HR

Tweeple in Recruiting and HR (Custom Search Engine)

Tagged: twitter

Started by Irina Shamaeva in Sourcing Jul 23.

Lou Adler

careersnotlateraltransfers.com - new career portal will eliminate all job boards in two years! 3 Replies

Unfortunately, careersnotlateraltransfers.com is still in the concept phase. The idea is to develop a product requirements specification that is based on how top people look for new jobs, decide whic…

Tagged: turnover, motivation, war, talent, sourcing

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Dennis Kline Jul 13.

Irina Shamaeva

Trust and Privacy on LinkedIn

  I emailed a candidate recently and got this response: “Reach out to me on LinkedIn; email is just spam”. This sounds like very strong wording, especially coming from a software engineer who (we wou…

Tagged: Privacy, LinkedIn, ERE

Started by Irina Shamaeva in Sourcing Jul 10.

Chris Jordan

References? 2 Replies

Hello I am wondering who out there is effectively reference checking candidates prior to offer?  I've found in order to conduct a meaningful reference check the process is extremely time consuming du…

Tagged: checking, reference

Started by Chris Jordan in General. Last reply by Jim Carwardine Jul 12.

Lou Adler

Does active candidate hiring increase turnover and reduce overall talent levels? 26 Replies

Are there some long run business ramifications of only hiring active candidates? It seems that passive candidates have lower turnover, make more of an impact, and get promoted more internally. If tru…

Started by Lou Adler in Sourcing. Last reply by Terry OConnor Jul 12.

Blog Posts

Peter John Martin

Black & White Habits… Making Decisions Can Be Detrimental To Our Business

No, this is not some crazy story about when I dressed up as a nun… although that is a very good story… sorry I digress…




Habits are amazing things and quite frankly can be brillian

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Posted by Peter John Martin on July 11, 2010 at 10:30pm

Peter John Martin

Do You Come Here Often..?

Ahh… one of the greatest, and most useless, chat up lines, ever to be used.


Relationships are curious things at the best of times and more and more these days our businesses and companies rely on the strength of the relationships it has with its’ clients, customers and suppliers alike.

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Posted by Peter John Martin on July 4, 2010 at 6:38pm

Michael T. Abrams

Four Core Elements of Incredible Leaders

No matter what industry, company or department you work in...there are a few key factors of leadership that will make or break a project. With corporate investment dollars being managed much more conservatively, you can't afford to have an initiative… Continue

Posted by Michael T. Abrams on June 26, 2010 at 6:42pm

Peter John Martin

Performance vs Happiness – is it as simple as basic manners and human understanding?

Not a new subject I know but a very important one. I actually did a search on the “Big G” under “Happy Staff” and got 50,000 Web pages come up with articles on the subject. It has also been widely publicised through the media about the extraordinary lengths that Google themselves go to, to ensure the work environment for their staff is a happy one.

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Posted by Peter John Martin on June 25, 2010 at 1:30pm

Kim

Wow, I'm blogging.

I have always wanted to have a recruiting blog as I've been involved in recruiting efforts in some way or another for 15 years!

Now I just need to find some good stuff to talk about!

Posted by Kim on June 25, 2010 at 12:17pm

Saleem Qureshi

Ireland embraces FirstScreen™ from HireLabs – The Red Lemonade factor

FirstScreen™ propels Irish job board specialists IWantANewJob

Ireland based IWantANewJob goes live with FirstScreen™, the talent assessment platform from HireLabs. Commenting on the positioning, HireLabs VP Sales, Hassan Bin Rizwan said that

…FirstScreen™ not only fulfills the much demanded talent screening solution for the Irish market, but also strongly positions HireLabs to extensively service regional markets through it’s channel partners.

President and COO Hirelabs Inc., Saleem Qureshi,… Continue

Posted by Saleem Qureshi on April 26, 2010 at 12:19am

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