Recently, Internships.com posted a beautiful infographic suggesting that Charlie Sheen’s paid tweet about his search for an intern was a historic day in the history of Social Recruiting.  While the job opening certainly got a lot of attention, it’s not exactly social recruiting.  Instead, what Charlie Sheen’s tweet demonstrates is the timeless power and widespread appeal [...]

Over the last few months, Google has been in the news fairly frequently.  And, no I’m not talking about their awesome homepage doodles. For a company founded just 13 years ago, they sure do command a lot of our collective attention. In November 2010, Google made news when they decided to give their current staff a [...]

A few weeks ago, I moved to New York City from Chicago.  When you move to a different city, you have to update lots of things.  For me, one of these things happens to be automobile insurance.  So, I called my existing company and let them know that I had moved to a new city [...]

Recently, Twitter unveiled a new feature that helps users discover who to follow.  This is a great example of the social proof that users of social media are searching for to help verify and validate the underlying potential of new connections. As I trialed the feature over the weekend, I appreciated the ‘beyond the search’ [...]

In the rush to categorize and compare social recruiting to traditional recruiting, more and more information is being shared which suggests that using social media in recruiting is not very useful.  For those who have thought this was the case all along, they feel justified and shouts of victory ring from the rafters.  Those who have had [...]

According to Alexa.com, Google (#1) and Facebook (#2) are the two most popular sites on the Internet.  For companies actively engaged in recruiting talent via the Internet, it is important to consider, what are the defining qualities of these sites that make them so attractive to Internet users?  Once defined, how can companies seeking to [...]

Over the past few weeks, the most talked about topic in social media has been the introduction of Google Buzz. Some users love it for its game-changing interactive potential, some users hate it for its game-changing invasion of privacy. Others are asking, what’s social media? Whatever, your level of social media acumen; there is no [...]

Why is it so hard to connect with entry-level talent? One of the main reasons is that many entry-level recruiters are ignoring the influence of technology in the lives of Generation Y. If you are a college student that is 18-22 years old, then you were born sometime between 1987-1991. This means that members of [...]