Will Facebook Beat LinkedIn as a Recruiting Tool?

November 28th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

I’ve said many times that your recruiting software needs to interface with Facebook and LinkedIn. One recent commentator thinks that we’ll all forget about the latter in two years.

“Why Facebook Will Destroy LinkedIn” was the provocative title on ere.net, an excellent source of recruiting information and buzz. The author is Jody Ordioni, an HR consultant who regularly contributes to ere.net.

Ordioni argues that Facebook has four distinct advantages over LinkedIn:

Size – as in 630 million more users.
Same demographic for both sites – namely, young-to-middle-aged professionals

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The Eyes Don’t Lie During an Interview

November 8th, 2011 by admin

Recruiting software can get you good candidates for interviews. The rest is up to you.

Tony Robbins, the popular (and controversial) self-help speaker and writer, has popularized “Neuro Linguistic Programming” (NLP), a way of interpreting non-verbal habits. If we can believe what he says about NLP, interviewers can learn a lot from the way a candidate moves while talking. The eyes, in particular, communicate a lot.

Here’s a helpful diagram from Global NLP training (Click to enlarge):

Image courtesy of bLaBbErWoRkS

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4 Great White Papers for Recruiting Professionals

October 16th, 2011 by admin

We don’t just produce great recruiting software. We also regularly put out white papers based on our industry research and expertise. Here are four of the latest:

Google+ for Recruiting – Integrate or Wait? There’s lots of buzz about this new social media tool, but what is really known about how it works? And can it be used profitably by recruiters – as, say, Facebook and LinkedIn can? Read this white paper to make the most informed decision about whether Google+ should be integrated into your recruiting operations.

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Bond Talent US Mid Year Update

October 5th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

Bond Talent is doing well. The recruiting software industry – along with the HR software industry – is a good one to be in right now. CEOs, COOs and HR execs are starting to realize that investments in high-quality recruiting software pay for themselves rather quickly.

Here are the important numbers from the home office in the U.K.

40 percent. That’s how much revenues increased in the first half of 2011 when compared to the first half of 2010.
18.4 million pounds/28.9 million dollars. That’s the new revenue number for the first half of 2011, up from 13.2 million pounds/20.7 million dollars in the first half of 2010.

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How to See a Shining Candidate Through a Lousy Resume

September 19th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

I’m not prone to feel sorry for people who don’t put together a good resume and complain about not finding a job, just like I don’t feel sorry for recruiters who complain about bad applicant tracking software but who never took the time research such a crucial purchase.

But then again, I can’t tell you the number a times a recruiter has asked, “Why is it that the best candidate is never the guy/gal with the best resume?”

In other words, a lot of good candidates lurk behind those mediocre, poor, and maybe even downright awful resumes.

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Join Me at the IHR Virtual Conference

September 12th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

I’m presenting Human Capital Supply Chains: Linking Just-In Time Talent to Profits at the Performance Management virtual conference on Tuesday, September 13. The presentation is about more than recruiting software. In fact, it’s about changing the way companies think about human resources.

Too often, we hear about massive layoffs during down times and hiring blitzes during good time. We should ask, “Why didn’t that company’s executives have a better grasp on what the company really needed on a monthly basis?” Or even a weekly basis?

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Check out the 2011 Human Capital Management Buyer’s Guide

August 30th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

Recruiting software buyers guide I’ve always been impressed with the Human Capital Management Buyer’s Guide, so I submitted a success story about our recruiting software for this year’s edition. I was pleasantly surprised when the Guide’s editor accepted it.

In the article (which starts on p.60 of the Guide, by the way) I tell the story of easyJet, a small British airline that used our recruiting software and, more importantly, began thinking about human capital as a resource which can be effectively managed as a supply chain.

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Companies Recruiting College Grads May Need to Increase Their Budgets

August 26th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

I was recently talking with a friend of mine whose son is starting his sophomore year in college and just changed his major to Petroleum Engineering. When she asked her son why he chose that major he informed her that is has the highest starting salary potential of any job for college graduates. He obviously did his research as you will see below.

As a quick follow-up to my recent post about college recruiting, here are the top-paying jobs for recent college graduates (and those which give the term “entry-level” a new meaning):

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Five Things to Look for in Applicant Tracking Software ATS

August 16th, 2011 by Tim Giehll

What are some of the key features every applicant tracking software (ATS)should have?

I get asked that question a lot at conferences and other events where I promote recruiting software. Here are my standard talking points.

Applicant tracking software should….

Efficiently Track Applicants. It sounds obvious, I know, but software programmers can be like automobile designers: They get so caught up in bells and whistles that they don’t attend to streamlining high-quality core functions. How does the software manage candidates through the entire recruitment cycle and make you a more efficient recruiter? Always ask that first.

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