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

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    The company’s new social media marketing manager

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  • Today LinkedIn announced during Talent Connect 2011, LinkedIn’s second annual Recruiting Solutions customer conference, LinkedIn Talent Pipeline. This promises to be “a powerful new solution to help companies more quickly and efficiently recruit top talent.  LinkedIn Talent Pipeline enables recruiters to create a single place to grow, track and stay […] 0

    BREAKING: LinkedIn Talent Pipeline to manage your sourcing activities

    Today LinkedIn announced during Talent Connect 2011, LinkedIn’s second annual Recruiting Solutions customer conference, LinkedIn Talent Pipeline. This promises to be “a powerful new solution to help companies more quickly and efficiently recruit top talent.  LinkedIn Talent Pipeline enables recruiters to create a single place to grow, track and stay […]

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  • Executives now challenging HR and Marketing for responsibility of the Employer Brand strategy In an era of social media dominance where employer branding continues to develop around the world, HR and Marketing are now being challenged by Executives for control of the Employer Brand strategy in new survey findings from […] 1

    2011 Global Employer Branding Study Results [incl infographic]

    Executives now challenging HR and Marketing for responsibility of the Employer Brand strategy In an era of social media dominance where employer branding continues to develop around the world, HR and Marketing are now being challenged by Executives for control of the Employer Brand strategy in new survey findings from […]

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  • With following companies you get insight into employee moves, relevant job opportunities or the latest products and services. Over 2 million Company Profile pages on LinkedIn just got better with news updates, including multimedia content, released by the company. That’s right, status updates are now also available for companies and its […] 0

    Following companies on LinkedIn now includes news updates

    With following companies you get insight into employee moves, relevant job opportunities or the latest products and services. Over 2 million Company Profile pages on LinkedIn just got better with news updates, including multimedia content, released by the company. That’s right, status updates are now also available for companies and its […]

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  • Reppler, a social media monitoring service, recently conducted a survey of 300 professionals who are involved in the hiring process at their company to understand the use of social networks for screening job applicants.  The results of this survey are shown in this infographic: 0

    91% of Recruiters check Social Networks

    Reppler, a social media monitoring service, recently conducted a survey of 300 professionals who are involved in the hiring process at their company to understand the use of social networks for screening job applicants.  The results of this survey are shown in this infographic:

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  • Here’s a collection of the official LinkedIn infographics with facts, figures and stats by the LinkedIn Analytics team. 1) Annual job promotions Does the best time to be promoted vary around the world? LinkedIn used the data of millions of its international members and confirms that January is the most […] 2

    7 Official LinkedIn Infographics

    Here’s a collection of the official LinkedIn infographics with facts, figures and stats by the LinkedIn Analytics team. 1) Annual job promotions Does the best time to be promoted vary around the world? LinkedIn used the data of millions of its international members and confirms that January is the most […]

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  • Recruiting leaders that ignore mobile should be waterboarded according to Dr. John Sullivan, a well-known thought leader in HR. Career sites are not mobile friendly but the way we consume information is going via the mobile web at a huge pace. Due to the explosion of the smartphone and tablet […] 1

    The State Of Mobile Recruiting [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Recruiting leaders that ignore mobile should be waterboarded according to Dr. John Sullivan, a well-known thought leader in HR. Career sites are not mobile friendly but the way we consume information is going via the mobile web at a huge pace. Due to the explosion of the smartphone and tablet […]

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  • In China, practically all companies are at high risk of losing one out of every five employees in their race for better opportunities and a better future. Research has shown that 20% of employees in China intend to leave their employer within a year. That is twice as much as […] 1

    A brutal message and daring concept, published with an innovative media strategy

    In China, practically all companies are at high risk of losing one out of every five employees in their race for better opportunities and a better future. Research has shown that 20% of employees in China intend to leave their employer within a year. That is twice as much as […]

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  • In the past three articles I’ve described the latest 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 reviewed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers were […] 1

    12 Mobile Recruitment Applications (part 4)

    In the past three articles I’ve described the latest 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 reviewed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers were […]

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