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

  • If you are an user of the professional LinkedIn Recruiter solutions you’ll notice some improvements when posting jobs. I like thefact that it’s now easier to post jobs with a new one-page flow including rich-text formatting. Next step is sharing them to your LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter networks, LinkedIn Groups, […] 0

    New LinkedIn Jobs dashboard includes more metrics

    Posted on May 10, 2011
    If you are an user of the professional LinkedIn Recruiter solutions you’ll notice some improvements when posting jobs. I like thefact that it’s now easier to post jobs with a new one-page flow including rich-text formatting. Next step is sharing them to your LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter networks, LinkedIn Groups, […]

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  • Today more details about the LinkedIn initial public offering (IPO) have been announced. LinkedIn Corporation plan to offer 7.84 million shares for between $32 and $35 in its initial public offering, valuing the company around $3 billion. In the prospectus some interesting facts and figures are included about the revenue […] 1

    How is LinkedIn Corporation earning money?

    Posted on May 9, 2011
    Today more details about the LinkedIn initial public offering (IPO) have been announced. LinkedIn Corporation plan to offer 7.84 million shares for between $32 and $35 in its initial public offering, valuing the company around $3 billion. In the prospectus some interesting facts and figures are included about the revenue […]

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  • Popular social media platforms are amongst the most visited sites and, nowadays, one of the most popular activities on mobile phones. You’ve probably heard that before but what this REALLY means is shown in this amazing and hypnotic real time display of 48 user, content and business metrics across social […] 1

    Social Media counts

    Posted on April 29, 2011
    Popular social media platforms are amongst the most visited sites and, nowadays, one of the most popular activities on mobile phones. You’ve probably heard that before but what this REALLY means is shown in this amazing and hypnotic real time display of 48 user, content and business metrics across social […]

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  • I started last year with publishing facts and figures about the usage of LinkedIn globally and since then created special reports about countries such as The Netherlands (World Champion LinkedIn), Belgium and United Kingdom. Because my co-author of the book ‘Career Management via LinkedIn‘ is currently attending the 2011 International […] 2

    LinkedIn Australia – all statistics & trends 2011

    Posted on April 28, 2011
    I started last year with publishing facts and figures about the usage of LinkedIn globally and since then created special reports about countries such as The Netherlands (World Champion LinkedIn), Belgium and United Kingdom. Because my co-author of the book ‘Career Management via LinkedIn‘ is currently attending the 2011 International […]

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  • I’m running a serie of creative CVs on this blog. This series of creative CVs, or special online profiles, can be found under the blog category “CV’s & profiles“. The next resume is from Victor Petit who was looking for an internship and recently scored one. It features a QR […] 0

    Creative use of QR code in resume

    Posted on April 28, 2011
    I’m running a serie of creative CVs on this blog. This series of creative CVs, or special online profiles, can be found under the blog category “CV’s & profiles“. The next resume is from Victor Petit who was looking for an internship and recently scored one. It features a QR […]

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  • Hyves Maintains Position as Top Social Networking Site in the Netherlands Despite Facebook’s Rapid Advances ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of social networking usage in the Netherlands. The study reveals that the Dutch social networking market continues to grow strongly as sites like […] 0

    The Netherlands Ranks #1 Worldwide in Penetration for Twitter and Linkedin

    Posted on April 26, 2011
    Hyves Maintains Position as Top Social Networking Site in the Netherlands Despite Facebook’s Rapid Advances ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of social networking usage in the Netherlands. The study reveals that the Dutch social networking market continues to grow strongly as sites like […]

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  • In four blog postings I’ll describe the latest developments in mobile recruitment. Many developments have only recently gained momentum and its outcome is uncertain. Nevertheless with some common sense and figures there is a lot to be told and predict. This series about mobile recruitment serves as a guide to […] 3

    The Future Of Mobile Recruitment (1)

    Posted on April 26, 2011
    In four blog postings I’ll describe the latest developments in mobile recruitment. Many developments have only recently gained momentum and its outcome is uncertain. Nevertheless with some common sense and figures there is a lot to be told and predict. This series about mobile recruitment serves as a guide to […]

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  • Experienced security personnel is hard to find these days. Only a few specialists can fulfill this narrow job profile and they tend to work ln the border patrol or as airport police. That’s why Shield Security came up with a unique tool: the Jobcase. This custom-built briefcase contains a recruitment […] 0

    1:1 direct job marketing

    Posted on April 25, 2011
    Experienced security personnel is hard to find these days. Only a few specialists can fulfill this narrow job profile and they tend to work ln the border patrol or as airport police. That’s why Shield Security came up with a unique tool: the Jobcase. This custom-built briefcase contains a recruitment […]

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  • The Facebook Like button was released 1 year ago and has been a great success. According to Facebook, 10.000 new websites are adding this social tool every day. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including 80% of U.S. Top 100 websites and over 50% of comScore’s Global […] 0

    Facebook Like for recruiting?

    Posted on April 24, 2011
    The Facebook Like button was released 1 year ago and has been a great success. According to Facebook, 10.000 new websites are adding this social tool every day. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including 80% of U.S. Top 100 websites and over 50% of comScore’s Global […]

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