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Metrics, Social Media

In A Push For More Robust Reporting, Google Analytics Adds Social Insights


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How do you track how your jobs and content gets shared across different social platforms? What if you could do it all from your Google Analytics dashboard?

Google announced the move in a post on their Google Analytics blog yesterday. While it may not replace the best all-around commercial solutions out there (like Omniture) or social specific monitoring tools (like Radian6), for the SMB crowd and for those who already use Google Analytics, it could be a great step forward from talking about social media tracking to actionable data and results.

With time, of course.

Leadership, Metrics

A Sourcing Checkup From the Neck Up: Assessing Your Sourcing Team


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Lately I’ve been getting lots of questions around assessing a sourcing team. Most leaders see this as quite a difficult task, yet its absence can compromise the team’s ability to survive corporate changes.

There’s clearly evidence that sourcing does reduce cost per hire, but it is incredibly difficult to hold sourcers accountable to a “number of hires” raw metric like you would with recruiters who are responsible for both internal and external hires, and have inbound candidates from established sources such as employee referrals, the company career site, and major advertisement. Every sourcing organization I know that has tried to measure sourcers with the same ruler as recruiters has struggled in one way or another to provide evidence of the value of sourcing. Why? Simple…

Leadership, Metrics

Looking at Sourcing Through the Lens of Moneyball


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In the middle of Moneyball, the movie, I thought to myself, the challenge that Brad Pitt’s character (Billy Beane) was facing reminded me of what we face in sourcing and recruiting. Brad Pitt (channeling Billy Beane) was expressing a sense of frustration that his scouts and team just didn’t get it — gut feelings about talent did not produce a winning organization. It was a new era — a new era dominated by data and analytics. Isn’t that where we are in sourcing and recruiting — a new era dominated by data, analytics, and metrics?

Leadership, Webinars

Webinar: Optimizing Recruiting and Sourcing Effectiveness


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Optimizing Recruiting and Sourcing Effectiveness

Thursday, June 30: 2:00 PM ET

Effective Sourcing augments recruiting through ingenuity by leveraging information and expertise. In this session, Arbita founder Don Ramer will present highlights from a process used to identify opportunities that achieve this leverage through expert benchmarking against best practices. Also available to answer questions during the webinar will be Arbita EVP Shally Steckerl.

Social Media, The Sourcing Function

Sourcing: The Next Sexy Thing


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Even Chris Brogan thinks that you’ll still need skilled people to analyze and manage data in the future. In a recent post on his blog, Brogan goes through some of his thoughts on job (consulting) opportunities for social media in the coming months and years. While his focus is on the consulting opportunities, he makes a strong statement that I think applies very appropriately to our world:

…we’ll see a push even further into sexy data, into using the marketing data that unstructured data gathering has brought to us all, and that analytics tools and people who know how to drive them will be the next sexy thing.

Metrics, Social Media, Technology & Resources

HootSuite’s New Social Analytics


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Those of you who attended SourceCon NYC last month got a sneak peek from HootSuite CEO, Ryan Holmes, of what HootSuite just announced yesterday regarding their new Social Analytics. If you have struggled to really show ROI on time spent “playing” on various social networks for sourcing and recruiting, these new tools will really help you to prove that you aren’t wasting your time (unless of course you’re really just playing FarmVille on company time).

Corporate Sourcing, Leadership, SourceCon

#SourceCon NYC: Going From Good to Great in Sourcing


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Getting SourceCon NYC kicked off today, Megan Holte, Sourcing and Pipeline Manager at ADP, showed a video of TCU’s Amon G. Carter stadium demolition this past December. The old stadium was functional, but the decision was made to implode sections of it to build it back up and enhance football fans’ experience and upgrade amenities.

Holte asked this question: “Why would a team headed to the Rose Bowl blow up its stadium?”

The reason she showed this video was to demonstrate that a good thing sometimes needs to be broken down and rebuilt in order to become great. In her presentation, Holte shared how her sourcing team at ADP was “broken” in order to take it to the next level of success. 

Leadership, Metrics, Social Media

Metrics: Creating Efficiencies in Sourcing Through Media Spend Tracking


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Company Q is a leader in the athletic apparel space, using digital sources to their advantage, generating millions in revenue online per year. Did you know Company Q also uses the same consumer advertising technology to source and track quality hires? How do they do it while keeping a lean budget? How do recruiters report efficiencies in sourcing spend to their VPs?

The answer? Metrics! 

Metrics, Technology & Resources, The Sourcing Function

Editor’s Pick: The Sourcing Plan – Selling the Hiring Manager on Smart Sourcing Tactics


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Editor’s Note: This week, SourceCon.com will be sharing a few of our favorite past posts. We’ll continue to do this through New Year’s Eve and will return to our regular content on Monday January 3, 2011.

When a job order is received from a hiring or HR manager, often the first thing he or she will want to know is how you plan to source quality talent. Quickly developing a sourcing plan that’s right for everyone as far as strategy, time, and cost has become both an art and science beyond the scope of the average sourcing specialist. Here are some tips to help create and deliver a top plan that will engage the hiring staff, let them know you are the expert, and get candidates faster.

Industry News, Technology & Resources

Jobvite’s Recruiting Intelligence Puts Metrics in Their Place


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One of Jobvite’s strengths has always been its ability to track an “invited” candidate back from the application to see how they came to learn of an opening. Now, Jobvite is adding more depth and breadth to its tracking, giving recruiters data about their job postings and the effectiveness of their own career site.

Announced today, the real-time recruiting intelligence can tell you how many people saw an an ad or visited your career site, what they did and, if you have Jobvite Hire, which includes an ATS, what you did.

For instance, if you distributed a job through social sites, sent a Jobvite to your employees, and posted it to traditional job boards, the recruiter intelligence part of the Jobvite dashboard can give you the number of visitors to each page where the ad appeared; how many then opened it; how many of them applied, and how many were interviewed, and, finally, if a hire was made, from where.