Social Recruiting

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Connecting You to Top Tech Talent

Dice brings together the highly efficient features of a specialized job board with the popular aspects of social networking. continue…
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Facing a Technology Sourcing Challenge?

This fast-paced, 3-minute video explains why Dice is THE #1 place to go when you need the best technology candidates… continue…
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Six Steps for Getting in the Social Recruiting Game

Simple ways that you can utilize social media to accelerate and expand your recruiting efforts. continue…
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1-2-3: Taking the First Steps to Using Social Media for Recruiting

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs. Social media is ubiquitous and has rapidly reshaped the way people connect and share information online. continue…
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The Future of Recruiting: Impact of the Social Web

With a looming talent shortage, the rise of the social Web, and the higher expectations of Millennials, recruiting is entering a new, more challenging era. continue…
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Social Recruiting Means Letting Employees, not Marketing, Talk about the Job says Bill Boorman

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Bill Boorman of The Recruiting Unblog provides the four keys to integrating social media into your existing recruiting strategy. continue…

Equip Your Customers for Success with Chris Brogan

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How to incorporate video into your content to help engage your customers and make them the hero, so you can increase their level of engagement. continue…

Utilizing Video to Let Candidates Pre-Interview Potential Employers with Will Staney

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What’s the best way to get potential employees interested in a job? Show them what the job is going to be like. And the best way to show is through video. That’s what Will Stanley (@willstaney), Director of Talent Acquisition for SuccessFactors discovered when he was working with VMware. While at the virtualization software company, Staney’s team used video for both employer branding and as a recruiting tactic. They simply just gave Flip cams to hiring managers and asked them to… continue…

Learn How to Hire Tech Rock Stars at Talent42

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We know how hard it is to hire “.NET Rock Stars.” That’s why Dice is sponsoring Talent42, the first conference designed exclusively for tech recruiters. continue…

30 Tips to Attract or Repel the Very Best Employees in Tech

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Attract top tech talent by offering flex-time, perks, games, snacks, beer, training, feedback, and time off
Put up a job listing and you’ll get a number of resumes. Is that success? Quantity is never the goal. Quality is. So, what does it take to attract the best talent? If it were as simple as free meals, this article would be very short. To uncover the answers, we interviewed dozens of recruiters, tech employees and hiring managers to ask a simple question: “What do you do to attract the best tech talent?” And as an adjunct, “What… continue…

Save on Talent42: Tech Recruiting Excellence Conference

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The first conference designed specifically for tech recruiters and HR professionals who recruit tech staff. June 13-14 in Seattle. continue…

#DiceConnect with TalentNet Live at SXSW

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Hang with your favorite social and tech recruiting peeps during SXSW in Austin, TX. Get 50% off the TNL Social Recruiting Conference using code “diceconnect”. continue…

Workforce Diversity Starts with Diverse Pipelines

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You wouldn’t fish for barracuda in a pond, or fresh water trout in the ocean, but every day, recruiters attempt to meet their company’s workforce diversity objectives by trolling through profiles of similar candidates on social networking sites. Experts are sounding an alarm after a quick review of the user demographics of the most popular sites shows that minorities are underrepresented on social or professional networking sites. In fact, most users are Caucasians between the ages of 18 and 40… continue…

Facebook Hackathon as a Traveling Recruiting Show

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Facebook uses its own social network to recruit simply by telling its own stories in unique and authentic ways, explains Matt Millunchick, Technical Project Manager for Facebook. One of the most notable ways Facebook recruits is by taking its famous hackathons on the road. A Facebook hackathon is a 10-hour exercise where employees create something new and show it off. The only requirement is that you’re not allowed to actually do your job during that time. You must work on… continue…

Cost Per Hire: How Do You Stack Up?

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Companies are directing more of their time and recruiting budgets toward social media, but are those investments paying off?  Only 1 percent of open positions were filled by candidates sourced through social media, according to a study of U.S. companies with 100 or more employees conducted during June and July by Oakland, CA-based research firm Bersin & Associates. Job boards and internal candidates each accounted for 19 percent of new hires, followed by referrals at 16 percent, and company Web sites… continue…