Roughly 21% of today’s working professionals can be considered as active job seekers. Another 20% are super passive i.e. happily employed and not interested in a new opportunity. The rest, 59% of all professionals, are approachable according to a survey conducted by LinkedIn. Interestingly, professionals with short tenure are just as likely to be in […]
Like many functions in the organization, the way in which companies identify and recruit talent has changed more in the past 10 years than it did in the last century. According to Jobvite, 89 percent of companies planned to use social media to recruit in 2011, a source of talent that didn’t even exist at […]
How is social professional networking changing the recruiting landscape? Here’s a special recording from LinkedIn Talent Connect 2011. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn CEO, reveals: LinkedIn’s vision for sourcing talent in a social networking world What new recruiting tools LinkedIn will unveil What it means for you and your recruiting team
Today LinkedIn announced during Talent Connect 2011, LinkedIn’s second annual Recruiting Solutions customer conference, LinkedIn Talent Pipeline. This promises to be “a powerful new solution to help companies more quickly and efficiently recruit top talent. LinkedIn Talent Pipeline enables recruiters to create a single place to grow, track and stay connected with all of their […]
ManpowerGroup’s 2011 Annual Talent Shortage Survey surveyed nearly 40,000 employers in 39 countries and territories to discover that more than one third (34%) of employers globally are reporting difficulty finding the talent they need to fill positions. This is a 3% increase over 2010 and the highest percentage since 2007, just before the global recession […]