LinkedIn, the boring social network that won’t find you a date but may land you a job, is expanding beyond people profiles. view article »

June 5th is Innovation Day for some TMP clients who will be invited to a day-long forum at Google’s Silicon Valley campus to learn how to make better use of search technology for recruitment purposes view article »

They call it My Perfect Gig (profile; site ), but you may be tempted to think of it as My Best Gettable Candidate. You'll be forgiven if you do because after you strip away all the hype from all the matching sites that are sprouting like rainy season mushrooms, the matches they come up with and the candidates who get hired only occasionally fit every job spec to a T. view article »

While U.S. recruiters debate the value of text messaging, one of the largest franchise operators in the Middle East has jumped in with enthusiasm.

“From now on,” says Nic Beesley,  a senior HR vice president with M.H. Alshaya Co., “All jobseekers applying for Alshaya vacancies will henceforth know exactly where they stand. Whether they are short-listed or called for an interview, every candidate will receive real-time SMS updates, regardless of which part of the world they live in.”

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Sendouts, provider of on-demand services for the recruiting and staffing industry, will give its users access to thousands of unique telephone-sourced mid-level passive candidates through Sheila Greco Associates’ (SGA) ExecutiveTracker. Sendouts Pro users can now source directly from SGA ExecutiveTracker, which houses the most comprehensive list of executives currently employed at major companies – both private and public – across all industries. view article »

Geoff Peterson, managing principal of General Lead and editor of StaffBytes is providing a free LinkedIn Checklist of 55 tips, tricks and strategies for networking on LinkedIn. This checklist offers several ways to build your LinkedIn network, gain exposure on LinkedIn, utilize your LinkedIn network in and out of LinkedIn, connect with the right LinkedIn members, utilize search engines and tools to extend your LinkedIn network and more. view article »

Nearly half (48 percent) of human resource managers say that over the past year they have had to broaden the list of places they look for candidates in order to reach more job seekers, according to a survey sponsored by Personified, the talent management and consulting subsidiary of CareerBuilder.com.

In hopes of getting new talent in the door quicker, nearly a quarter (23 percent) of human resource managers say they have shortened the time from initial meeting to offer, and close to one-in-ten (8 percent) have removed steps from the application process.

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27 per cent of employers in the UK said they either currently use social networking sites to research potential job candidates or plan to start. Specifically, 15 per cent of employers said they currently screen potential employees on social networking sites and another 12 per cent said although they do not, they intend to start. view article »

Want to know how referrals and cold calls can make a difference to your business? Then check out Bullhorn's white paper, "Top 6 Sourcing Best Practices: How Referrals and Cold Calls Can Keep You Ahead of Your Competition."

This new report focuses on sourcing best practices from the fastest growing firms and reveals what tools and techniques are most effective to source and place candidates faster than the competition. Some key findings include never deleting candidate information from your database, online networks prove to be more effective for finding passive candidates and job boards offer a significant advantage over other sourcing methods by listing candidates' salary requirements.

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ZoomInfo has formed an alliance with Main Sequence Technologies, the vendor of PCRecruiter an applicant tracking system used by management recruiters worldwide. PCRecruiter is also the tracking platform of choice for over 1,000 franchisees and affiliates of the MRI Network - a global recruitment organization. view article »

Sendouts launches the SourcePro Toolbar, a web 2.0 ready add-on for Internet Explorer. This new sourcing tool enables recruiters to import candidate resumes and profiles from social networking sites and major job boards directly into their Sendouts Pro database quickly and accurately. view article »

Recruiter and recruitment researcher Qualigence, has cut its rates.

“The idea behind our Stimulus Package is to provide all companies a cost-effective solution to the key roles they still need to fill in spite of the current economic conditions” said company founder Stephen Lowisz. “We know that helping large organizations to make hires will inevitably help the economy and we definitely support that.”

The Qualigence Stimulus Package now offers research rates at $80/hour, rather than the standard research rate of $100/hour. The company also offers a rate of $95/hour for passive candidate development and recruiting – the standard rate for this service at Qualigence is $115/hour. The standard rates at Qualigence had been in effect since the company’s founding in 1999.

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In a new podcast recorded at the SHRM 2009 Annual Conference, Jeremy Eskenazi, managing principal of Riviera Advisors, a premier human resources consulting firm, tells Total Picture Radio, "employed executives are cemented to their chairs." view article »

cBizSoft, Inc., a provider of recruiting software solutions for the staffing industry, unveiled SourceFirst, its fully integrated candidate sourcing tool.

SourceFirst enables users to search for qualified candidates across hundreds of sites, including paid job boards, major search engines, free boards, niche boards, associations, colleges and social networks.

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TalentDrive, provider of on-demand resume sourcing technology, TalentFilter, has partnered with ATS provider MrTed. The companies will combine TalentFilter's resume sourcing and matching technology with the full-featured MrTedTalentLink recruiting solution, enabling users to leverage the internet for advanced resume sourcing.

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Arbita, provider of recruitment marketing technology, media planning and consulting services, has teamed up with TalentSpring, a provider of semantic search technology products for the recruiting industry, to create the white paper, “Semantic Search: Sourcing Success Beyond Boolean Search,”  that is available to download now.

Two of the leaders in online search today, Shally Steckerl of Arbita and Bryan Starbuck of TalentSpring, have teamed up to author this paper and explain to recruiters how these search techniques can improve quality and reduce time-to-fill and cost.

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Bond Adapt, provider of specialist staffing software for staffing and recruiting companies, is partnering with Broadlook Technologies, provider of real-time passive candidate sourcing and client acquisition technologies.

Now user's of Bond's Adapt Researcher will be able to use Broadlook to search for passive candidates or conduct other research directly from their dashboard  and bring the results seamlessly into Adapt.

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Jobvite now integrates with Jigsaw to bring real-time contact information to its talent acquisition platform.

The partnership streamlines candidate search on the web, enabling companies to target the right talent for open jobs and reach prospective candidates easily. Using Jobvite Source, employers can match their jobs to profiles in Jigsaw and easily secure comprehensive contact information when they identify a good candidate.

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Free contacts for job seekers? ZoomInfo is making that offer to job hunters in exchange for their business contacts.

There's no minimum number of contacts required and the offer is good for two months of service. You must use Outlook and download a plug-in that automatically transfers the addressbook to ZoomInfo. The service rejects consumer email addresses (to the extent it can identify them), then scrubs the rest.

Signup at FreshContacts.

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eGrabber Inc., provider of automated Internet research tools, announced results of a recent trial conducted at Microsoft using eGrabber’s recently introduced LeadResearcher tool.

Marvin Smith, a talent sourcer for Microsoft, reported that within 24 hours of deploying LeadResearcher, MS received responses from 117 new applicants for a specific project from a pool of candidates that were short listed, but couldn't be easily contacted.

Go here to read the full Marvin Smith / Microsoft case study.

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