The industry continues to see efforts being made towards using social media and social networking to get candidates and jobs. As a part of the same effort, popular extension of Twitter, TweetDeck has launched a new site that directly is meant for recruiting industry—Job Deck. Previously Job deck existed as a separate entity, and recruiters [...]

Few days ago I mentioned the need to be bolder in our strategy to attract talent. The direct result of being stuck in a rut, following the same old way of hiring has to give away to new innovative and modern methods of recruiting. If we cannot learn, we will learn that we will [...]

It has been a long year for both employers and the candidates, isn’t it? The pages have turned, they have been torn off, the books have become old, but the same title keeps following us no matter which bookstore we visit. Our philosophies of hiring candidates have taken a beating, we have had to look [...]

I had said that social networking could go far to add both value and change to the traditional way recruiters source candidates. As promised, here is a small tutorial (for some of you not familiar) about how exactly to use Internet and networking sites to our advantage. One important aspect of social media optimization [...]

Are social networks really redundant? Can we really market ourselves to find employment? Lots of us think that it is just hype. First of all, not many of us have got a clue about what social media and social networking is about. Also, social networking puts us out there, makes us transparent to the world [...]