Author: Jimmy Hurff

LinkedIn And Recruitment

by Traci K and BrightMove Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software LinkedIn has propelled itself in recent years to become the second most used social media site in the U.S. for recruitment. Recruiters and their organizations have established profiles, often times extensively detailed, with connection numbers reaching in the thousands. In …

Twitter And Recruitment

We have progressed far enough into the age of online recruitment that utilizing social media is definitely not a new concept. However, many recruiters may underestimate the utility of Twitter with the highly informal setup and content limitations. Even with the 140 character limit, Twitter can generate a response if …

Recruitment Etiquette Lesson 1: Rejection Letters

Rejection is to recruitment as inevitability is to change. There’s no getting around it. Applicant tracking systems have not only eased the pain of stringent record-keeping requirements, but have also altered the final task of letting down those that didn’t get the job with the one-click declination letter. Once a …

BrightMove, Inc. Launches BrightMatch Skill Marketing Suite

BrightMove, Inc. Launches BrightMatch Skill Marketing Suite for Staffing Software Customers: Put Your Talent to Work Finding Potential Clients and Jobs St. Augustine Beach, FL, December 20 2010 – BrightMove, Inc. (www.brightmove.com), a leading developer of Recruiting Software for Recruitment Outsourcing (RPO), Staffing and Corporate HR, announces the …

DisABILITY: Overcome Roadblocks to Access Underutilized Pools of Talent

Studies published by the Department of Labor or sponsored by MetLife (published through Encore , Civic Ventures , and other organizations) show current labor shortage projections of 700,000 workers by 2018, with the retiring Baby Boomers to blame. Skeptics deny the probability that these predictions will be realized to this …

Rebuilding Your Staffing Company? Inefficiency is a Death Certificate

I’ve been in recruiting for almost my entire career and wow has it changed. From the days of huge markups to the dot com decimation of professional recruitment, I have seen this industry change so much. I tell my friends that the staffing industry is the thing to watch if …

Selecting Recruiting Software: Know Your Users Before Setting Requirements

By Michael Brandt – BrightMove Recruiting Software I want to start this series on selecting recruiting software by just saying “I love recruiting.” Recruiting is one of the fastest growing, moving and evolving industries I could ever imagine working in and I have had the privilege of seeing some of …