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David Henry, VP of marketing UKIE at Monster Worldwide, started the afternoon with a look at the potential of big data in recruitment. Henry told delegates that recruitment is no stranger to data – job boards alone generate millions of job search queries each month. The issue, he said, was to make sense of the data that we generate. He talked through Monster’s semantic search tool SeeMore, which sits over the Monster suite of recruitment services. This aims to makes sense of unstructured data from a variety of sources. Henry…read more

The morning sessions at today’s Social, Mobile and Recruitment Technology Summit took delegates from the macro trends affecting the global workforce to how Unilever is using Linkedin and Facebook to the mobile aspirations of Linkedin. Jason Corsello, VP of marketing and corporate strategy at Cornerstone OnDemand, told delegates that the bigger picture of global resourcing is shaping recruitment trends. Forty years ago the brightest students were graduating out of the US. Now they are graduating from Korea and Finland and a whole range of other countries, but no longer just…read more

From automated job board posting to source analytics, applicant recruiting technologies have made the lives of recruiters a lot easier — especially as more job seekers rely on their social and referral networks to find jobs. Social networking sites have fundamentally changed how recruiters and candidates are connecting and sharing information. It has also begun to redefine active and passive candidates who maintain a presence on sites such as LinkedIn, Indeed.com, and various alumni professional networks. To keep up with the pace of the technological and social changes, today’s talent…read more