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 ...

Mashable recently posted an infographic presenting how recruiters use social networks to screen candidates. While it’s not surprising 91% of recruiters reported using social media to screen candidates, I was surprised to find that 69% of recruiters have rejected a candidate based on what they found. (For a famous example of this, read about the “Cisco ...

One of the key areas around defining a Social Media Recruiting Strategy is the ability to determine where the right audience is. You might want to consider issues like: who are your candidates and where are they? Knowing who your candidates are is probably the easier part. They may be categorized by the skills they ...

Social Media Recruiting is growing in popularity this year. But we still have a long way to go, as most HR and Talent sourcing teams are yet to fully adopt this new tool and many are still wondering how to go about it. In reality, no one is a Social Media Recruiting expert. The reason ...

Following last week’s Social Media in Recruitment Conference, we are now fully shifting focus of this website from a Research and resource platform for Social Recruiting to a Social Media Recruiting Consultancy. This has always been the plan in a way, but we needed to get a better understanding of employer’s interests in the subject ...

One of the issues heavily discussed within the Social Media Recruiting circle is how Employers can track the source of applications made by candidates that have been engaged with, via Social Networks and Social Media tools. I know url shortening services like bit.ly and emp.ly can provide you with number of clicks, source etc. But ...

That was the title of an insightful article on Inc.com. Due to its growing interests on Twitter via multiple retweets, the magazine has decided to make it a featured article on the page. It is a beginners level presentation on how to use Social Media Recruiting. The introduction in the article is very captivating: There ...