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Gen Y on Facebook

Gen Y on Facebook: Where Work and Personal Habits Collide

As we’ve talked about before, many members of Generation Y look at work a little bit differently than other generations.  ”I love my job, but I love my life more” is something you might hear Gen Yers say. Although members of Gen Y (the generational group comprised of those 18 to 29 years of age) have no problem with working hard, as a general rule, their job will never be the whole of their identity. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Generational Hiring, Insights & Trends, Social Media, Sourcing, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

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Are You Ready for Some Office Football?

In a typical football game, each team has 11 players on the field and at least 50 more suited up on the sidelines. That’s a lot of people to manage! The players all need to have highly developed specialties, and football coaches are always on the lookout for athletes who can fill these roles perfectly. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition

Guerrilla Social Recruiting

Applying Guerrilla Marketing Strategies to Your Social Recruiting Efforts

When Jay Conrad Levinson first published Guerrilla Marketing in 1983, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was a mere 7 years old, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born. So what does this book have to do with recruitment marketing via social media? Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Small Business, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition

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Move Your Recruitment Strategy Forward by Taking a Step Back

Is your recruitment process based on what you know about job seekers…or what you think you know about job seekers?

If there’s one thing over 15 years of in-depth research on job seeker behavior and perceptions have taught us, it’s that now, more than ever, experience matters when it comes to the ability to drive quality candidates to apply for your open positions. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Insights & Trends, Mobile, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Technology, Video, Webinars

CareerBuilder's Social Media Manager, Jenny Weigle

18 of Your Burning Social Media Questions, Answered

A few months ago, Amber Naslund (or @ambercadabra, as some of you may know her), VP of Social Strategy for Radian6 , hosted “Social Media for Small Businesses,” a webinar encouraging small businesses to take a look beyond likes, fans and followers and rethink the way they view how they’re using social media to help reach their business goals. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Employee Engagement, Insights & Trends, Small Business, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Technology

Are you listening to your social media sites?

You Can Talk and Listen at the Same Time

Many companies are making great strides in social media recruiting. This is good – social media is an excellent place to find passive and active candidates, and connect with them on a more personal level.

In addition to talking on social media, are you listening? Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Employee Engagement, Employment Branding, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition

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Increase Brand Awareness and Your Recruitment Reach with Fresh Content

Not too terribly long ago, life was a lot harder. People spent hours growing, finding and hunting their food, only to spend equal amounts of time cooking and preserving it so they wouldn’t starve in the winter. But as technology progressed, it brought along a couple of the more noteworthy inventions in recent history: the refrigerator and the microwave. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Employee Engagement, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition

Using New Media to Recruit

New Media Calls for New Recruiting Strategy | Free Webcast

Do you realize…

…one in two job seekers want to find and engage with companies in social?
…80 percent of companies use social media to recruit?
…12 percent of job searches are done via mobile devices?
…54 percent of job seekers are more likely to apply to your job at your company after they follow you on social media? Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Employee Engagement, Mobile, Retention, Social Media, Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Video, Webinars

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Survey: What Employers Get Right – and Wrong – About Social Media

New surveys released through three of CareerBuilder’s niche sites – MiracleWorkers (which caters to healthcare workers), WorkinRetail (serving the retail industry) and Sologig (focused on contract and freelance positions) – reveal the information workers value most on an organization’s social media pages – and what social media moves they despise. Continue reading

By in Emerging Media, Insights & Trends, Social Media, Sourcing, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

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