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I Hired This Totally Rad Guy

I broke about five rules in the employee handbook to hire someone. And I don’t even care. Meet Rad:                   Rad is driving… Get the Rest

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From the Sourcer’s Desk…those endorsements? They’re a good thing!

So you probably think I’m going to write about LinkedIn endorsements, it’s a topic that seems to be polarizing the social media and recruiting digerati.  And to be

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You’re a Sourcer…are you also the Bias Police?

This actually came up as a statement and not so much a question in one of my team calls over the last month.  Our sourcing team has somehow

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HR Laggard Quiz

where to get a loan with bad credit lag•gard /ˈlagərd/ Noun A person who makes slow progress and falls behind others: "I have no time for laggards". Adjective Slower than desired or expected. Synonyms noun.

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The resume looks good, but she only got two stars on LinkedIn

Most Fistful of Talent readers I am sure by now are familiar with and have probably spent some time on the quasi-addictive new LinkedIn feature called ‘Endorsements’. For those folks

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Work “Friends” and Facebook

As I’ve mentioned in probably every FOT post I’ve written since mid-July, I started a new job about four months ago. So far, it’s really and truly

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News Flash…There’s still a Social Media Sourcing Gap…

My personal and professional social media experience has been a progression. I knew about it and toyed with prior to 2008, 2008 I stepped into the pool

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Prepare Your Company For A Zombie Apocalypse

If there's one thing that keeps HR people up at night, it's threat of a zombie apocalypse. Can we all agree on this? The threat of a zombie take

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Revisiting Social Recruiting Metrics + ROI

A few years ago I wrote a blog post on measuring ROI and metrics for social recruiting. Just for kicks, I went back to look at the list

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Do Job Postings Matter? What About Other Marketing Elements to Your Openings?

Seriously - Do job postings and other marketing elements even matter to the response you get to your open jobs? I suspect the world falls into three camps: -They absolutely