Derived from the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (which also inspired a movie ), the ‘Moneyball Sourcing model’ described here by Marvin Smith allows for a different, data-driven approach to viewing sourcing and recruiting. In the actual novel, Beane managed to sign baseball players who were less expensive yet still able ...

HireRabbit, a service that helps you design a beautiful career site on social networks, boost your referral recruitment, integrate with systems you already use etc designed a brilliant infographic on Social Recruiting on Facebook. In the infographic and accompanying statistics, 48% of all job seekers (and 63% of those with a profile) did social media ...

Social Recruiting via Facebook is surely a strong subject in 2011, and doesn’t seem to be going away very soon. It will be a trend to watch and analyse in 2012 for recruiters and potential candidates alike. With Facebook’s IPO in tow, more companies are building recruitment and hiring apps, taking advantage of Facebook’s over ...

Mashable recently posted an article containing an infographic about job seekers and their success on Facebook. The infographic reported some strong findings: 1 in 6 job seekers use social media to get hired. Surprisngly (to me at least) Facebook accounted for more found jobs than Twitter and LinkedIn combined. Will this trend continue in 2012? Facebook ...

We’re all used to Facebook ads at this point selling us products, trying to get us to sign up for a service, etc. But have you seen any lately trying to hire you? Or perhaps the other way around, has your company paid to advertise to potential job seekers? In a move of “going where ...

Adam recently posted the blog: Will your Facebook friends find you your next job?, where he explored how jobseekers may be using Facebook to learn about career opportunities via the Facebook social graph and referals. With the huge growth of Facebook and the potential therein, many recruiters and employers are tapping into the network to ...

Had an interesting conversation yesterday with Stéphane Le Viet, co-founder and investor in the Facebook App Work for Us. It looks like a great tool that allows companies to add a mini- job board on their Facebook Fan page. Usually, some companies post jobs on their Facebook fan page stream, but this app makes things ...