Great hiring doesn't happen by accident; it's the culmination of a series of thoughtfully planned and well executed events. At the beginning of hiring well is a sourcing strategy. This strategy outlines responsibilities, articulates the steps, plans for contingencies, and defines success.
Building this strategy can be difficult. To be effective, it should include a robust audit of source effectiveness, ROI measures, and cutting-edge methods. It is a toolkit that will address holistic sourcing approaches but be flexible enough to be tailored for unique needs. more »
Sourcing can also seem so daunting of a task to accomplish that swamped recruiters can't carve out the time they think they need to properly devote to it. We'll share optimal mix of sourcing activities and time allocation to help every organization find and hire top talent. Bring your whole recruiting team and notepad because you'll receiving specific instructions on how to best structure and deploy your sourcing time.
As a special bonus, our sponsor TheLadders will be offering an exclusive promotion for webinar attendees who are not current clients of TheLadders. more »
Recruitment research, finding previously untapped pools of talent, has resurged in today's economy; with more candidates in the marketplace and less openings at some employers, talent acquisition teams have seized the opportunity to upgrade the quality of their candidate flow.
Not familiar with research? This webcast will illuminate best practices in developing a formidable research strategy, explore options of building or buying a team, and highlight the latest techniques in recruiting-related research. more »
Creator Mark Stelzner tweeted this on January 29, 2009, "Was thinking that if each of us helped just 1 person find a job, we could start making a dent in unemployment. You game?" And the overwhelming response was YES. Since then, 13,000 JobAngels have shared over 500,000 messages about job openings around the world, and have been featured on over 200 television stations, over 500 blogs and podcasts and more than 20 newspapers including the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times
What is JobAngels? Through Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, members share information about job openings and job candidates with each other- it's that simple. In this webcast, we'll hear from the creators about the vision, the status today, and the power of looking way beyond traditional recruiting sourcing and creating your own. more »
If you are recruiting for job seekers in 2009, you already know how to build Boolean search strings for your vacancies- and you probably have spent hours sorting and sifting through the results returned to find those ideal candidates. Online search is an absolute essential for successful recruiters. But how old are your methods?
In this webcast, we'll hear from an expert in Boolean recruiting searches on integrating semantic search, artificial intelligence matching, and the most current information you can get on power searching for 2009. more »
Microsoft Entertainment & Devices is building their online talent community and helping to pipeline talent that will meet current and future recruiting needs for their specific product areas including Zune, Xbox, Sync, Mobile, Surface, etc, and for 10 specific targeted talent pipelines such as hardware engineers, software engineers, gaming professionals, designers, testers, and more.
In the last webcast of the year in Strategic Sourcing and Recruiting, Marvin Smith will share how they evangelized the need for building the Talent Community initiative within Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) Division ($7.5B & 8000 employees). He will also share what tools and technologies they have utilized to launch their talent community, the multi-year phased approach towards building a talent community, and the results that they have achieved to date. more »
How would your organization find candidates if all of your standard online sources disappeared tomorrow? Many employers may face this situation give the fluctuating global economy. Perhaps you are simply looking for a more effective way to reach out to the right candidates for your jobs, but don't know where to find them.
In this webcast we'll examine the shift of talent destinations over the last 10 years, the top online employment sites today, and share some eye-opening candidate statistics. Additionally, we'll provide strategic actions you instantly implement to find more candidates online. more »
In the 1990s, most sourcing was done in the Sunday paper. By the year 2000, employers and candidates had shifted significantly to using online job boards to meet each other. The next paradigm-changing shift is already occurring, and by 2010 both job seekers and organizations will use a new mixture of interactive media to find great careers and great talent.
Will your company be ready to source and identify candidates in this new way? And just what is this interactive media? This webcast will show what's happening online, and the interactive recruiting strategies companies are deploying to take advantage of these new trends. more »
The promise of the internet has delivered many wishes, including granting access to thousands of names and contact numbers for potential candidates to daily-grind recruiters everywhere. Recruiting is really about building relationships, and yet the art and science of what to do with those names, how to influence candidates and shepherd them through the recruiting process, even how to hold the initial conversation, is still a secret of the top echelon of strategic talent management professionals.
Has the technique of opening a dialogue with a potential candidate eluded your grasp? Or perhaps are you ready to make more successful cold-calls? Is your recruiting team able to effectively convert names on a spreadsheet to hires behind desks? In this webcast we'll hear from an award-winning recruiter and trainer on how to move beyond simple name generation and into active recruiting. more »
The Internet has proved to be an endless recruiting resource for candidate names and contact information. New techniques, sites and applications are created everyday. Unfortunately, often those names and numbers are put to no more use than as data fodder on a spreadsheet.
The emergence of the Internet has overshadowed its communication predecessor, the Telephone, as the primary tool in the recruiter's toolbox. Top acquisition specialists, however, are masters of the net AND phone, and are experts at building relationships and overcoming objections- the prototypical recruiter. The last webcast of the year in Strategic Sourcing and Recruitment will be a "back to basics," and will focus on the tips and techniques offered by one of the "pioneers" of telephone sourcing. more »
Manage recruiting events, track talent, identify pipelines, deliver key information to hiring managers, increase quality of candidates, and partner with universities- these tasks would stretch the capabilities of your typical OFCCP-compliant applicant tracking system. Instead of the ATS "inward view," CRM, or Contact Relationship Management databases, are being employed to cast an "outward view" on your sourcing strategy.
Recruiters are sales people, after all. Why not leverage the success the sales industry has had in using such databases? This webcast will explore the concept of "talent mapping," how to implement a CRM at your company, and what types of results you should expect from your efforts. more »