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Selection 2.0: The Social Interview Case Study

Jacco Valkenburg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:49:41 +0000

You are most likely using social media for recruiting. And, according to many surveys, you are probably also using it for pre-screening applicants. But are you using it for the selection of candidates too? Digital Advertising Agency R/GA wanted to try a new kind of job interview: The Social Interview. They asked summer internship candidates to allow them to post three questions to their Facebook wall—not for them to answer, but for their friends to answer.

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The results? The collective answers provided a fuller picture of the candidate, and a unique portrait of them for both R/GA and their own social network. It also stimulated media discussion outside of Facebook. With thousands of answers posted, they discovered some of the most young, social media savvy minds around.

Want to learn more about using Facebook for your recruiting efforts? Book our Expertclass ‘Recruitment via Facebook’ now or contact us for more information.

Join us at #TRU Recruiter Unconferences

Jacco Valkenburg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:46:14 +0000

#Tru is an ongoing carnival of unconferences, organised by Bill Boorman, which is not just for recruiters. Attendees will be made up of a mix of Agency and in-house recruiters, HR, technologists and anyone with an interest in people.

These events attract track leaders and attendees from around the world. Attendance is restricted to 100 to ensure flowing conversation with 3 tracks an hour running, hosted by experts in the discussion topic. There’s something for everyone in the 36 tracks, with track leaders from Corporate and Agency Recruiting, H.R, Learning and Development, Technology, Digital Media, Job Boards and more. Of course we will be attending and leading a few tracks again this year!

What is an Unconference?

An unconference is a gathering of minds, experiences and opinions where the attendees (or active participants) lead the conversation. There are 3 simple rules:

No Presentations
No Powerpoint
No Pitching

Apart from that, anything goes. We don’t have presentations because the best knowledge is in the room. By bringing together participants from all kinds of backgrounds with a shared interest. Job Boards, Recruiters (Corporate and Agency), Technologists, Mobile Specialists, Branding Companies and more, all with a shared interest in talent attraction from a different perspective. No talking heads to listen to and nod or nod off.

Check out the faces of the track leaders:

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That is a fantastic line up that covers all aspects of Recruiting, HR, technology and Digital Media. The track leaders come from 13 different countries and 3 continents, one of the most global Recruiting/HR line ups ever assembled. I’m counting down the days and hope you can join us! Here’s the diary for 2012 (check the most current schedule here):

The next events:
#TruParis – Feb 9′th – BOOK HERE
#TruLondon - 22′nd – 23′rd Feb - BOOK HERE

March – #TruStockholm

March – #TruHungary

March – #TruAmsterdam

April -#TruSanFran

April – #TruManchester

April 19th – 20th – #TruEurope – Brussels

May 4th – #TruGeneva

May – #TruFinland

May – #TruSydney

May – #TruAuckland

June – #TruBoston

June – #TruCroatia

July – #TruMontreal

July – #TruPhilly

July – #TruLeeds

Aug – #TruOrange (county)

Sept – #TruLondon – 13′th – 14′th

Sept – #TruWisconsin

Oct – #TruJo’burg

Oct – #TruCapeTown

Oct – #TruOhio

Oct – #TruRomania

Nov 22′nd- #TruAmsterdam/RIDE

Nov – #TruMelbourne

Nov – #TruMumbai

Nov – #TruShanghai

Dec 13′th – #TruDublin

Happy & Prosperous New Year 2012!

Jacco Valkenburg — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:00:04 +0000

A happy and prosperous 2012 to all of our great clients, contacts and business partners!

The year 2011 brought us:

Over 80 new clients and training participants.
8 international speaking engagements and workshops.
1 primetime TV appearance in RTL News
Lots of press publications and online articles with reference to our work or expertise
192.855 friends on Twitter via 8 active accounts. Most popular is @RecruitmentJob with 58.000 followers, listed #98 in the Twittergids Top 2011 in The Netherlands and according to Klout a top 10 influencer on Recruitment topics.
82.734 members in our LinkedIn group for Recruitment Consultants and Staffing Professionals, making it one of the largest global groups on LinkedIn (#47 of 1,150,454). There are another 4.847 members in our Dutch Career coaching group.
1.852 fans on Facebook, with Recruit2 being the most popular page.
110 people who are connected to the Recruit2 Google+ page.
168.018 visitors on our blogs of which 47.724 on our Global Recruiting Roundtable blog. The more frequent updated Recruiting Roundtable Nederland blog reached 92.771 people!
A new and updated edition of the book ‘Recruitment via LinkedIn‘ was released in 2011.
The Dutch version of ‘Career Management via LinkedIn‘ was for the second year the #1 best-selling career book!
More than 15.000 iPhone and 12.456 Android users downloaded our recruitment apps (including our client’s apps).

Thanks for all your support! We’ll continue to bring you the best content, expand your network, bring new innovative ideas and share leads.

Best wishes for the new year from the Recruit2 team!

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Launching Google Plus Business Page

Jacco Valkenburg — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:17:40 +0000

Google has unveiled today brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network, and of course we were one of the first to try it out and you can see the result here:

Recruit2 on Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108865775393321620539/

But wait there is more! We also created a page for the Recruitment community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108865775393321620539/

You will be able to add these pages to one of your Google Plus Circles and subscribe to page’s updates. With killer features like video chat/interviews and live streaming functionality in Google+ Hangouts these pages have the potential to become a great way of interacting with our audience. So add us to your circle now!

Launching the new Recruit2 (HTML5) website

Career news via Windows Phone 7

Jacco Valkenburg — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:32:07 +0000

“Windows Phone 7 Series marks a turning point toward phones that truly reflect the speed of people’s lives and their need to connect to other people and [accomplish other] seamless experiences.”

With these words, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer launched the new Windows Phone 7. And it gets better for everyone interested in career related news because our most popular App is now also available for Windows Phone 7! Our WP7 App contains the latest news, tips and tricks for job seekers from career coaches and recruiters around the world.

This App is aimed at English, Dutch and German readers and contains many references to online career sources. It also includes 2 news feeds with LinkedIn related articles supporting books about ‘Career Management via LinkedIn‘, in English and Dutch.

Windows Phone 7 owners visit Windows Marketplace or search for ‘Career Tip‘. Users of an iPhone / iPad or Android follow the provided link. This App is part of our White Label Mobile Applications, aimed at the Staffing and Recruiting Industry.

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European Online Recruitment Seminar in Barcelona on 23-24 November 2011

Jacco Valkenburg — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 08:16:20 +0000

With new data showing a strengthening job market, companies are hiring and employees are on the hunt for new opportunities. The trend in business hiring is widespread, with 68% of industries adding jobs so far this year. Therefore IBB decided to organize their Pan-European Annual Online Recruitment Seminar with in-depth interactive sessions and workshops of companies of L’Oréal, Monster, CERN, Sonru, Recruit2 / Recruiter University and more.

Within 1,5 days you will get complete update and discuss through interactive workshops and exclusive case studies the challenges and key issues of:

Online Recruitment & Employer Branding,
Social Media Recruiting Strategies & Tools (Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter),
Video & Mobile Recruiting,
How to Measure Social Recruiting ROI and more..

More info on agenda? Please check: www.ibbint.com/online-recruitment.html

Or email Navana Kundu – Head Delegates Relations Europe at navana@ibbint.com to receive more info on registration and discounts available.

Starts:	Wednesday November 23, 2011, 01:30PM PST
Ends:	Thursday November 24, 2011, 05:30PM PST
Event Type:	Training/Seminar
Location:	Hotel Evenia Rossello Barcelona, CATALUNYA ES
Price:	15% Discount for Linkedin members + Travel and 1 night hotel stay included (terms and conditions apply)
Website:	http://www.ibbint.com/online-recruitment.html
Industry:	human resources
Keywords:	human resources recruitment talent sourcing talent acquisition employer branding
Intended For:	• HR Corporate Recruiters • Corporate Talent Acquisition Managers • Managers responsible for Employer Branding, Internet Talent Sourcing • And secondly by Recruitment Agencies, Recruitment Advertising Agencies,Job Boards and Recruitment Industry Suppliers
Organization:	IBB International

Freelance Corporate Recruiters (Europe)

Jacco Valkenburg — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:48:47 +0000

Interested? Let’s talk

Be part of a winning team! Due to high demand in Europe we are interested to get in touch with experienced (contract or freelance) Corporate Recruiters for short or long term projects and managed recruitment services.

Accountability:

Recruitment and Sourcing

Develop cost effective recruitment methods, internally & externally, to consistently source and provide a diverse pool of qualified prospects at the right time.
Partner with the HR Business Manager and hiring managers to establish recruiting plans, successful prospect profiling, and account management.
Apply Competency Based selection and screening criteria to assist the hiring manager in selecting a qualified diverse pool of prospects, through resume review, telephone and in person screening for both internal and external prospects to discern the correct fit for the business.

Consulting and Communication

Consult the business on all aspects of Selection. Act as the primary point of contact throughout the selection process.

Team Leadership / Coaching and Counseling

Responsible for the day to day Coaching and Mentoring of Junior Recruitment Consultants (if applicable).

Data integrity, Process & System Design and Re-engineering.

Continually seek creative ways to ensure that productivity is enhanced and that processes follow business needs. Continually increase knowledge of state and federal regulations, current trends and case law as it relates to recruitment.

What do we expect from you?

Demonstrate proven experience in all core consultative and administrative areas of Corporate Recruitment including: at least 3 years Executive Management recruitment, Behavioral interviewing, cold calling & direct sourcing for talent, candidate screening & presentation, interviewing, negotiating and closing offers, outreach recruitment, understanding of working in a matrix business environment, strong presentation and facilitation skills, project management, process management, a preferred partner to the business, and acting in a lead role to junior team (in some cases).

Additional information:

Work location: Europe, especially The Netherlands, Germany, UK, France and Spain.
A payroll solution will be provided by Recruit2, own company is not needed. Freelancers need a VAR-WUO statement to work in The Netherlands.
Duration: 3-12 month contracts, permanent positions are also available.

The Recruiters Lounge – An interview with Jacco Valkenburg

Get the latest Recruitment news via Twitter

Jacco Valkenburg — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 06:22:46 +0000

On 20 April 2009 we created the Twitter account @Recruitmentjob to inform you about you the latest global news, blogs, tips, training & jobs for Recruiters. It’s a microblog that aggregates links about Employer Branding, e-HRM, Recruitment & Selection news, articles and blogs from around the world. Messages come from the major news sources and blogs in these areas. With an average of 8.3 tweets per day / 222 tweets per month, it has become an important resource for anyone interested in recruitment. In fact, it’s the most followed recruitment source on Twitter (June 2011)!

Follow Recruitmentjob on Twitter, click here:

Here are some other interesting facts we collected about this account:

Because we are always interested in improving this news source we are interested in your feedback. Are you missing articles from a recruiting blog you’d recommend? Let us know!

And if you are interested in news and articles about career coaching and job seeking you may want to follow @Careertip on Twitter too.

Over 5.000 iPhone Apps in 6 months

Jacco Valkenburg — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:17:05 +0000

On 1st of October 2010 we launched a white-label iPhone App for recruitment agencies and corporate organisations. Since then we created 12 iPhone Apps (and several Android versions) for our clients. The reason for offering a white-label iPhone App is that we wanted to change the perception that building and launching an iPhone is an expensive, complicated and long project. Which is not the case when you use our standard solution and service! It can be ready within 48 hours.

More important, we noticed that there was great interest from job seekers to have direct access to jobs ‘anywhere and anytime’. At that time we didn’t have much hard evidence, we only noticed that job apps were in the top of the charts of most downloaded business apps (in The Netherlands). But everytime we launch a new app we are surprised to see the number of downloads. It exceeds everytime our expectations. To give you some facts, in the past 26 weeks there were 5.167 fresh installations of our iPhone Apps by users. This means that on average 72 iPhone ‘Recruitment’ Apps, made by Recruit2, are installed on new iOS devices every day! Furthermore, another whopping 7.856 users have upgraded these iPhone Apps to the latest version.

Below you’ll find an overview, in random order, of the iPhone Apps we created for our clients plus a link to some more statistical information:

Join the #1 LinkedIn group for Recruitment Consultants

Jacco Valkenburg — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:56:43 +0000

On 26 January 2008 we created a dedicated group for Corporate Staffing Professionals, (Agency) Recruiters, HR Managers / Directors and Employer Branding Experts on LinkedIn to expand our network of people, ideas and share leads. Within a very short time it became one of the largest groups for Recruiters. In fact, it has been in the top 50 largest groups for many years (out of 913,000 LinkedIn groups at this moment).

Networking

You can easily reach other Recruitment Consultant members and accelerate careers/business through referrals. With the LinkedIn group discussion forum you can also ask or answer specific questions. Moreover you can view rich professional profiles from fellow Recruitment Consultants Group members and contact them directly.

Quality

We take the group’s value proposition very seriously and provide its members with quality contacts, jobs and discussions. We only allow professionals who are involved or are responsible for recruiting and moderate all discussions and comments continuously. The same is applicable for job postings as you’ll only find Recruiter related vacancies in here so if you are looking for a new (international) challenge or recruitment project have a look at the jobs posted by our members here.

Become a member

Connect with 63.000+ Recruitment Consultants in our LinkedIn group via this link or copy this link into your browser:

http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/52762/1C9C2422549E

I hope to see you in the group!