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I Have a Talent Community, Now What Do I Do With It?

There's a lot of buzz in the talent acquisition world around talent communities. In fact, we recently wrote about how...

Four Secrets to Hiring Hard-to-Fill at Volume

After the housing bubble burst in 2007, banks were required to make several changes to address the needs of their...

Key Sourcing Benchmarks – Defining Your Application Completion Threshold

What if 30% of applicants that start your apply process don’t finish? What if 60% don’t finish? Do you know how many...

Application Completion Threshold: To Apply or Not To Apply

To apply or not to apply? That is the question facing many candidates when coming across a job application for a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sourcing Innovation: Find & Be Found

A recent article titled Are You Finding Talent or Is Talent Finding You? got our wheels turning. The article analyzed...