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According to a study done by Jobvite, 95% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find new talent. But unless you understand the recruiting industry as it is set up today, that statistic doesn’t mean much. Recruiting has two functions; sourcing and screening. In some organizations these two activities are done by the same people. In larger companies, these are separated out.
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Thanks to EUTraning.com for sending these along. I quite enjoyed them! The images are about getting a job in a European Union institution as an international civil servant. The ads play on the idea that some 60,000 people apply each year for only 400-600 jobs which are highly regarded and rather well paid. EUTraining.com is a private company that provides
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Originally posted on ERE:  Is Monster becoming a Mini-ster? That’s the kind of question that’s really meant to be a statement. No matter how you answer it, the predicate already tells us it’s going to be bad for the subject. No surprise, then, that Jason Buss posed it last week in the midst of offering “7 Warning Signs For Monster.com.”
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Companies aren’t ignorant to the repercussions of internet access among their employees. If a person thinks they’re outsmarting their employers by using Facebook or Twitter on the sly, rest assured that your superiors have already accounted for it. It’s no secret that people check up on their wall posts, tweets, messages, and notifications during downtime at work. The studies, infographics, and first-hand
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It looks like the brits are catching up to the yanks in social media adoption in the job search. This infographic was compiled by LondonLovesJobs.com. According to the stats, 30%of bosses are using social media to find talent, while 43% of job seekers would use social media to find their new boss. According to The Undercover Recruiter, a blog run by
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I had a great interview with Deborah Shane this week on her Blog Talk Radio show “Train With Shane”. We covered these topics: How I started Career Enlightenment and why I love helping job seekers What’s all this talk about the “Skills Gap” and how you can mind the gap in your own search What Job Searching With Social Media
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Guest post by By Eric Gaydos Originally posted on June 30, 2011 at http://blog.resunate.com It’s the era of the journeyman. With the average baby boomer changing jobs 11 times in the 26 years between ages 18-44 (BLS), it’s clear that the way we think about our careers has fundamentally changed. Even the meaning of the word “career” has shifted. Where
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The following is an excerpt from my new book Job Searching With social media for Dummies: 1. Google Has Replaced the Résumé Recruiters are now using Google and LinkedIn searches to find talent, instead of paying for job-board or talent databases, like they used to do. In fact, many companies are even mandating that every new application go through a
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