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Candidate Sourcing in a Niche Market

Niche, in a business sense, refers to a “specialized market.” I like to think of sourcing in a niche market as finding...

Mind the Culture Gap? The Culture of a Diversity Program

For companies that fall under the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) umbrella (companies that have...

Talent Community Definition

The talent community concept continues to be one of the hottest topics in talent acquisition. It’s also a concept that...

Talent Acquisition Leaders and their ATS: No Love Connection

Applicant tracking systems (ATS) are the tools that everyone loves to hate. Recruiters complain about them and...

Candidate Sourcing on Reddit: The Most Useful Website You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

As a newbie to the sourcing world I’ve tried out a variety of social media websites for sourcing, from the obligatory...

Tackling the Talent Gap

According to the December jobs report, the unemployment rate is hovering at four-year low– but that’s not because more...

Social Sourcing: How Do the Big Guys Stack Up?

“Social” may have been the biggest buzzword among recruiters in 2012, and for good reason: 73 percent of companies made...

Associated Press TV: Paul Harty on January's US Job Numbers

On Friday, the US Bureau of labor Statistices Released its report on the state of the US labor market in January, 2013....

SSR on Mashable: How Facebook Graph Search Could Transform Recruiting

On Sunday, Mashable ran a piece by Seven Step Sourcing Team Manager Erin Bazinet (@erinbaz) discussing the likely...

Will Facebook Recruiting Be A Friend or Foe to RPO?

"Like" it or not, the social recruiting universe is expanding. Facebook has entered the scene with its long-awaited job...

The Three L’s of Recruiting and Sourcing

“Location, location, location.” It's a phrase best known in real estate that could be better known in recruiting. Just...

Avoiding the Headaches of RPO Transition Management

Business process outsourcing, forecasted to become a $280.7 billion industry by 2017, is a strategic approach that...