SHRM’s Staffing Management Magazine ran a story about our 2010 Recruitment Survey in  a recent issue.  The story in below.  It is great to see that more companies see the value in using social media and emerging technologies to improve the recruitment process.

The executive summary of our survey “The New Age of Recruiting” can be downloaded here.

2010 JCSI Recruitment Survey

Now that the economy is improving and hiring is picking up in many sectors, many recruiting leaders want to know how recruiting practices are changing in 2010.   With the rise in digital technology and social media, are the preferred recruiting practices changing?  How are HR leaders looking to rebuild their teams?  What are the most important metrics for measuring success? These are some of the questions we are addressing in our new Talent Recruiting Survey.

This brief survey addresses how companies are planning to grow their teams and what tools and practices they’ll be using in the next year.   Click here to take the survey – we kept it short so it won’t take more that 10 minutes of your time.

We’ll summarize the results in an ebook and discuss them in a webinar so you can see how your colleagues are approaching recruiting in the new year.  Just leave your email address and we’ll send you an invite as soon as it is ready.

And if that wasn’t enough reason to take this survey… all participants are eligible to win a new Amazon Kindle. Now wouldn’t that be a nice holiday present for yourself?

Take the 2010 Talent Survey Now

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MVTQ5ST

We know that many companies are still reluctant to jump into social media, but why? Equation Research provides some interesting insights in their new Marketing Industry Trends report. The report compares the responses from agencies, small companies and larger companies (defined as 500 or more employees) to see how marketing is evolving with the changing consumer/media landscape. It is interesting to see how each of these groups view social media differently, but we’ll focus on the responses from large companies here.

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A new study from Altimeter Group and the Wetpaint shows that financial performance of a company correlates to the level of engagement the company has with its audience in social media.

The report analyzes the social media activities and practices of the 100 brands in BusinessWeek’s 2008 “Best Global Brand” publication.  Companies were evaluated on 40 social media attributes and the results were cross-referenced to the company’s publicly available financial reports.  The results are pretty compelling. Those companies with the greatest engagement scores outperformed other companies in both revenue and profit. Read More