What Is a Diversity Recruitment Strategy? A diversity recruitment strategy defines goals, accountabilities, action items and success measures for attracting, engaging, assessing and hiring diverse talent to drive business success. 87% of participants in the Diversity in the Workplace Job Seeker Survey indicate leaders believe diversity recruiting is important and 81% have a diversity recruiting strategy. . MORE

Empowering employees to publicize and promote your organization as a brand advocate can give you a clear edge in the war for talent, experts agree. The recent trends toward marketing employer brand and leveraging social recruiting have opened up the possibilities of expanding engagement with passive talent and allowing employees to become an essential part of the mix. “Your employees are powerful megaphones for your employer brand,” she said. MORE

Once again using HRmarketer software, we analyzed the #HRTechConf conference website and tweets to come up with the following Conference Twitter Primer — all the information you need to socially prepare for the world’s largest HR technology conference and exposition hall! IbaMasood : Interested in software eating the world. RitaMitjans : Mom, Harvard ’90, Chief Diversity & Corporate Social Responsibility Officer. Talent advisor. Diversity != MORE

With cloud adoption becoming the norm and machine learning taking the top spot in every organizational agenda, talent leaders are facing challenges like never before. We anticipate more disruption, more need for agility, more scarcity of talent, more need for reskilling, and a lot more. Finding random resumes on career websites will not really help the talent leaders much. The year 2018 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. MORE

Funding Announcements in the HR, Recruiting and Benefits Space | 2016. The recruitment marketing platform Smashfly started off 2016 raising $22 million. Lever Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding to Help Companies Reinvent the Way They Recruit and Hire. Glassbreakers raises further funding for diversity and inclusion platform. Recruitment Platform SmashFly Raises $22 Million in Second Round of Funding. Talent Rover Raises $2.2M MORE

With cloud adoption becoming the norm and machine learning taking the top spot in every organizational agenda, talent leaders are facing challenges like never before. We anticipate more disruption, more need for agility, more scarcity of talent, more need for reskilling, and a lot more. Finding random resumes on career websites will not really help the talent leaders much. The year 2017 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. MORE

With cloud adoption becoming the norm and machine learning taking the top spot in every organizational agenda, talent leaders are facing challenges like never before. We anticipate more disruption, more need for agility, more scarcity of talent, more need for reskilling, and a lot more. Finding random resumes on career websites will not really help the talent leaders much. The year 2018 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. MORE