About Author: Jacco Valkenburg

Jacco Valkenburg is an international recruitment expert, trainer and author (5 books). He has more than 20 years experience in global recruitment strategies and execution spanning numerous countries for leading companies. As founder of Recruiter University and Recruit2 he provides companies with recruitment training and consultancy. His mission is helping companies ‘from good to great staffing’.

Posts by Jacco Valkenburg

  • I love creative recruitment campaigns! And Hipster, a tech start-up in San Francisco, has been successful in attracting promising Mobile Engineers and Ruby Engineers, coming from companies like Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle and AOL, to its company with a great referral campaign and an special attention-getting offer; $10,000 in cash […] 0

    Refer a friend and get $10,000 and a year’s supply of beer

    Posted on June 14, 2011
    I love creative recruitment campaigns! And Hipster, a tech start-up in San Francisco, has been successful in attracting promising Mobile Engineers and Ruby Engineers, coming from companies like Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle and AOL, to its company with a great referral campaign and an special attention-getting offer; $10,000 in cash […]

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  • According to ManpowerGroup’s third quarter Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released today, year-over-year hiring outlooks improve modestly across major countries with German employers reporting their most optimistic hiring expectations since the downturn. Although overall hiring plans for countries such as Italy and the U.K. remain subdued, results for Canada and France […] 0

    Employment Outlook: Uncertainty Seems to be Fading Globally

    Posted on June 14, 2011
    According to ManpowerGroup’s third quarter Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released today, year-over-year hiring outlooks improve modestly across major countries with German employers reporting their most optimistic hiring expectations since the downturn. Although overall hiring plans for countries such as Italy and the U.K. remain subdued, results for Canada and France […]

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  • There are very restricted possibilities of advertising at Swiss universities. Therefore McKinsey in Switzerland looked for an unusual way of communicating and at the same time reach as many persons as possible. They found the solution in producing a pencil with an overly long eraser attached to it. On the […] 0

    Creative campus recruiting and direct marketing

    Posted on June 10, 2011
    There are very restricted possibilities of advertising at Swiss universities. Therefore McKinsey in Switzerland looked for an unusual way of communicating and at the same time reach as many persons as possible. They found the solution in producing a pencil with an overly long eraser attached to it. On the […]

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  • It’s back! From the acclaimed Social Media Revolution series, see here from 2010, there is an updated and slightly shorter version for 2011. This video shows the progression in the field of information technology, globalization and the information age we live in today and includes new social media statistics for […] 1

    Social Media Revolution 2011 [VIDEO]

    Posted on June 9, 2011
    It’s back! From the acclaimed Social Media Revolution series, see here from 2010, there is an updated and slightly shorter version for 2011. This video shows the progression in the field of information technology, globalization and the information age we live in today and includes new social media statistics for […]

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  • A look at education and employment in the United States: Putting jobs in perspective. 0

    Education vs Employment [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Posted on June 7, 2011
    A look at education and employment in the United States: Putting jobs in perspective.

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  • Recently Nicole Bueters, Director Talent Acquisition at Philips Benelux, shared her experience with the road to a successful referral program in a multinational. According to their own research, targeted sourcing, referral and internal labor market yield the best quality of hire. External agencies produced the lowest quality of hire. But […] 1

    Case study: How referral enables the growth of Philips

    Posted on June 3, 2011
    Recently Nicole Bueters, Director Talent Acquisition at Philips Benelux, shared her experience with the road to a successful referral program in a multinational. According to their own research, targeted sourcing, referral and internal labor market yield the best quality of hire. External agencies produced the lowest quality of hire. But […]

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  • Agencies are increasingly fighting for the best digital talent. But these days front-end developers are extremely hard to find. There are not many out there. After trying the traditional recruitment advertising the Danish agency Uncle came up with a more creative way to recruit a front-end developer. 0

    In-Game Job Recruitment

    Posted on June 2, 2011
    Agencies are increasingly fighting for the best digital talent. But these days front-end developers are extremely hard to find. There are not many out there. After trying the traditional recruitment advertising the Danish agency Uncle came up with a more creative way to recruit a front-end developer.

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  • In four articles I’ll describe the developments in mobile recruitment. In Part 1 the explosion of mobile internet in the coming years and the evolution of online recruitment to mobile was discussed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers are being described in […] 1

    The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: implications (part 2)

    Posted on June 1, 2011
    In four articles I’ll describe the developments in mobile recruitment. In Part 1 the explosion of mobile internet in the coming years and the evolution of online recruitment to mobile was discussed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers are being described in […]

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  • ManpowerGroup’s 2011 Annual Talent Shortage Survey surveyed nearly 40,000 employers in 39 countries and territories to discover that more than one third (34%) of employers globally are reporting difficulty finding the talent they need to fill positions. This is a 3% increase over 2010 and the highest percentage since 2007, […] 0

    Jobs for Technicians are the most difficult to fill

    Posted on May 23, 2011
    ManpowerGroup’s 2011 Annual Talent Shortage Survey surveyed nearly 40,000 employers in 39 countries and territories to discover that more than one third (34%) of employers globally are reporting difficulty finding the talent they need to fill positions. This is a 3% increase over 2010 and the highest percentage since 2007, […]

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