This just in! Now anyone can post their own news stories on YouTube via YouTube Direct. The idea is to connect citizens and journalists, and is designed as a “new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips...

I want to pose a question: how do you use  LinkedIn to source candidates? If you’re like me, you use the “Relevance” option to sort your search results. And while I thought this was a great way to help me find the best candidates, after reading a...

Note: The following is a guest blog post, written in response to the social media contest Pinstripe held for the #socialrecruiting  Summit.  Christi Carpenter, a  Strategy Consultant for Monster Worldwide,  submitted the winning post....

It took me awhile to find something to write about for this week. I wanted an idea that was a little more specific than social networking sites in general. So, I decided to focus on Twitter, and Twitter alone. Twitter serves as a virtual conversation,...

I’d like to think I’m a realist, but perhaps after reading this, some may call me an idealist. It’s simple: My job as a recruiter is to find the best candidate among all the other choices, to optimize. However, according to Don Moyer’s article,...