It’s fair to say LinkedIn has changed everyone’s life in recruiting. But not always for the better. LinkedIn is the golden child of candidate databases, now claiming to have 575 million unique profiles (260 monthly actives) residing within its servers. It’s the database of choice for recruiters, and while the service represents the biggest database of active and passive candidates …
Millennials Are Obsessed with Branding. Use It to Your Advantage.
It’s no secret that millennial candidates care about much more than just collecting a bigger paycheck when looking for a new gig. These young professionals (who now make up the largest segment of the U.S. workforce) crave a sense of purpose in their work, both in their day-to-day job and the causes their employers support, even more than past generations. …
Can You Relocate To Lubbock? The New Rules for an Old Recruiting Question.
“If this job is the right fit for you, is Islamabad a place you’d relocate the family to?” Some of you laughed. I’m not laughing. I’m a recruiter trying to determine if a great candidate will actually move where I need them to move before I destroy 20 hours of organizational time via the interview dog and pony show. So, …
3 Reasons HR Should Pay Attention to the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal
$13.7 billion buys a lot of organic quinoa. Lots of talk around Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods and what it means for the grocery business, farmers, those whose jobs will be lost to automation, and the retail industry as a whole. It’s a cocktail of doom and gloom mixed with the reality of capitalism and a twist of efficiency. So …
Why LinkedIn and Indeed Can’t Agree on the Definition of a Passive Candidate
One of my core duties at Kinetix is to evaluate new sourcing and recruiting platforms and maintain relationships with current vendors in that space. Not a week goes by that I don’t receive an email or phone call from an intrepid account manager asking me to demo his or her solution that will change the way we find candidates! Recently, …