Here's a recruiting riddle: What costs more but often works worse? Outside hires. Fueled by a conviction that there's plenty of talent in their ranks and backed by research showing that hiring outsiders can lead to costly...

One of the highlights of an excellent #truDublin was listening to Google sourcer Wojciech Smailinski talking about the type of candidates that he needs to source for the recruiters responsible for the engineering team in EMEA. It gave a fascinating insight in to how you can find what would be for many of us the unthinkable. Wojciech has been working for Google in Dublin for about a year, before th

An astonishing 75% of job success is predicted by optimism levels, social support, & the ability to see stress as a challenge rather than a threat. This new blog post explores the surprising implications of workplace success...

My friend and top UK Sourcer Martin Lee, who runs the cool free tools group on LinkedIn sent me over a link to a new app recently to have a look at, and when I took a peek, I was impressed with what I saw. Whenever I look at a new tool or app, and I probably look at about 100 a week, I use a simple criteria to judge it: > Does it do something I can't do now or does it improve on what I already

LinkedIn was the first social network to become part of Intuit’s recruitment and employer branding strategy. Intuit began by taking control of their company page, actively monitoring conversations and adding useful content. The...

Social media policies come in different shapes and sizes. They can either be a small section in your company’s employee handbook or a lengthier stand-alone document. There are some things to keep in mind when crafting your...

TribePad is excited to announce the latest extension to its social recruiting features within the platform. You can now use Facebook's 820+ million users to distribute your jobs. This powerful feature encourages your users to share jobs and the referral element enhances the effectiveness of your

This is the second post this month (first one was - Steps to Better SEO for Job Adverts) giving tips on getting the most out of the search engines. Below covers our opinion on what you need to be doing next to maximise your careers site... The good folk from Google are preparing to make a major

If LinkedIn were to change their approach to monetizing the channel and switch to charging users for profiles, with additional costs for all of the add-on features and applications, would you be pr...

If you like social media and recruitment, you might have heard of the successful Sodexo case study. If not, you'll love this post. Sodexo is the leading provider of integrated food and facilities management services in the US, Canada and … <a href="http://linkhumans.com/blog/how-sodexo-does-recruitment-and-employer-branding-on-social-media-case-study">more »</a>

At the end of February LinkedIn announced the launch of a new feature that is already proving a hit. The new feature enables you to add a “follow company” tab on any web place.When you ...

Coming from me, this blog post might come as a bit of a surprise. I'm well-known for having had great success in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and other channels. I'm always looking for oth...

Big companies are notoriously bad at keeping their best people. Here's why Dilbert lives in most big companies.

Everyone has their own reasons for becoming a recruiter. For some it's the compensation, others it's relationship building, but for me it was the "woo" of the highly skilled candidate. While it has been a few years since I sat...