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Snapchat Recruiting, Employees on Facebook, and The Best of HR on Twitter

January 28

If the midweek doldrums have set in and you just can’t brig yourself to put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, then it’s probably time for a reading break. No, I am not advising you to slack on the job, not at all! This list of articles will help take your mind off the Wednesday hump and provide you with some motivating recruitment insights. This week’s top recruitment blog posts are:Are We Ready For Recruitment via Snapchat? - Roxanne Abercrombi Maybe I’m getting old and curmudgeonly, but I don’t know if I think Snapchat is ever going to be a great tool for recruiting. I’m probably wrong. Apparently it’s a hotbed for Gen Y and Gen Z talent!In 2015, Should Facebook Access Be Banned at Work? - Katrina Collier Yo……Read More

Hiring Humans Not Cyborgs, Choosing an ATS, and Fighting Turnover

January 21

Time for another round up of the best recruitment, HR, and workplace themed blog posts of the week! Here are our top 5 picks:Combating the Modern Recruiter’s Unrealistic Expectations – By Matthew Kosinski Despite the much-bemoaned skills gap and it being a job seekers market, according to a recent Career Advisory Board study, recruiters have unrealistic expectations of candidates. Matthew’s article explains the negative consequences of waiting too long for the ideal candidate and urges recruiters and hiring managers need to adjust their expectations. This Is What Companies Do When They Are Getting Kicked by Entry-Level Turnover... – Kris Dunn More war for talent inspired writing, this time from the won……Read More

The Risks of Social Recruiting, Reaching Passive Candidates, and HR Trends

January 14

This week’s link love has some excellent articles to satisfy your thirst for recruitment knowledge.You’ll learn tricks for sourcing in demand passive candidates, what recruiting tech talent in 2015 is all about, and another way to assess the risk vs reward of using social media to reach job seekers!Here’s our list of the top 5 HR and recruitment articles this week: The 7 Steps for Recruiting Hard-to-find Passive Candidates – Lou AdlerLou walks you through the steps he took to successfully source top talent for a difficult to fill tech role. He explains the techniques needed to find, attract, and recruit the best passive candidates.Recruit Tech Talent in 2015 by Going Back to the Basics – Holly GloverOut of LinkedIn’s recently releas……Read More

2015 Social Recruiting Resolutions, Tips, and Sizing Up Your Competition

January 7

Happy New Year, I would insert a party emoji if I knew how to do so on WordPress without destroying the internet and ruining our tech team’s day. I have about 30 resolutions, most of them already broken, but my goal to spend the first 15 minutes of my day reading interesting new blog posts is going strong. So far I have learned a lot about the importance of drinking lemon water first thing in the morning, how to cook a whole chicken in a crockpot, and how my home office is lacking some essential items. I have also read lots and lots of excellent blog posts about human resources and social recruiting that I am (slightly too) excited to share with you. Our first Link Love of the New Year features social recruitment goal-……Read More

The First Recruitment Tweets, Social Talent, and the Perils of Holiday Parties

December 17

Here are seven of our favourite HR and recruiting blog posts this week:Holiday Gift Giving for Employees – It’s Not That Simple by Paul Hebert Paul provides two pro tips for giving seasonal gifts to employees.The First Tweets in #HR and #Recruiting by Jessica Miller-Merrel Jessica takes a look back at the first tweets of fifty professionals in the HR and recruitment industry.2014 Job Board Year in Review by The Job Board Doctor himself! According to the Job Board Doctor, 2014 was the year that VC money returned to the job board industry. His article takes a journey back to look at some of this year’s highlights for the online recruiting world. How to Have the Best, Litigation-Free Office Holiday Party Ever by Chastit……Read More

Recruiters Bro Down, Holiday Parties, and HR Tech Trends

December 10

I love a good link love blog post.I mean, what’s not to love about a well-curated list of articles to read all laid out for you in a single post?Absolutely nothing, which is why I’m sure you’ll thoroughly enjoy this link love!Here are five of my favourite HR and recruiting blog posts of the week:Employers Say Employer Branding Is Working – Jodi OrdioniJudy highlights the key findings of a recent employer branding survey performed by Brandemix.For example, the study showed that 80 percent of participants consider their employer branding to be successful at bringing down costs, increasing applications from top candidates. Not bad!Looking Back at 3 Big HR Technology Trends We Saw This Year – Jayson SabaJayson covers th……Read More

Holiday HR and Recruiting Links with a Side of Ugly Sweaters

December 3

All I want for Christmas is a group of unusually strong fairies to paint my new apartment for me, and then move all of my old junk into it. How about you? Perhaps speedy gnomes to sort through that pile of resumes on your desk, set aside the most promising, and then toss the rest? Or, does your heart desire a magical app that will automate your social recruiting for you? Oh wait… Totally exists! The holiday season brings with it many wonderful things: Apple pie, pumpkin pie, lemon meringue pie, and of course, the always delicious holiday themed blog post. It’s only the third of December and we’ve already read a slew of fun, funny, and helpful seasonal HR and recruitment articles. Here are our top 7 so far:Are You ……Read More

Office Hazards, Avoiding the Second Mistake, & Good Guys Winning

November 26

Happy almost (American) Thanksgiving! What are you thankful for? If you need some help deciding, might I suggest giving thanks for canned pumpkin? It makes pie making significantly easier! Yet this wonderful pantry item is nowhere to be found in Holland. Nor is pumpkin pie, or pumpkin loaf, or pumpkin cheesecake. It’s almost as though there was no Pinterest in the Netherlands. Lack of pumpkin flavored baked goods aside, being an expat I was very thankful to provide my Dutch friends with their very first Thanksgiving celebration. Being a Canadian expat, that celebration was a few weeks ago. So, needless to say… I need more American friends so that I have an excuse to celebrate Thanksgiving twice! In the mea……Read More

Social Recruiting and HR Twitter Inspiration

November 19

The Jobcast team has been extra busy this past week! Onboarding new users, making videos, and working on our product roadmap (we’ve got some pretty big stuff on the way) has left little time for reading. Normally I spend every morning pouring over the latest human resources blogs and social recruiting articles, but not this week. This week I’ve spent my mornings furiously typing away at my computer, oblivious to the coffee stains accumulating on the front of my PJs (a downside to remote work!) It’s times like this that I rely very heavily on Twitter to help me stay in the loop and find content worth sharing. We follow some pretty awesome HR Twitter accounts and these tweeters are always an excellent source of n……Read More

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