Sourcing Candidates

We’re always looking for ways to improve the Dice website and the services we provide our customers. One way we do that is through ongoing customer satisfaction surveys. In a recent survey, a number of...

What is the real goal of social recruiting? To actually make hires? To expand your network of contacts? To connect in yet another way with current contacts? Or is it a combination of all...

With a recruiting team of three and a tiny budget, Lars Schmidt (@ThisIsLars), Director of Talent Acquisition for NPR, has had to think of creative, economical ways to extend his recruiting reach. He works through...

“Social media will never make a hire,” argued Matt Charney (@mattcharney), Senior Manager, Social Media and Online Branding for Cornerstone OnDemand. At the 2012 SHRM National Conference in Atlanta (#SHRM12), Charney and I talked...

Sometimes the best hires aren’t the ones actively looking for a job. Better known as “passive” candidates, these gainfully employed professionals are reasonably happy, but might be willing to consider a more attractive offer. “Passive...

The recruiting industry is missing out on recruiting data that could be used to improve its its processes, says Jason Warner (@Jason_s_warner), founder of Recruiting Dash, a SaaS-based metrics, analytics, and reporting solution for the...

Meet Terry Starr (@HRSocialStarr). She’s the Director of Social Media Strategy for Dice Holdings, Inc. and she really knows her social stuff. If you – or perhaps your colleagues – still need some convincing that social recruiting...

I always hear that the key to recruiting is building relationships, but what does that actually mean? How do you translate a relationship to actually getting a great recruit, and how do recruiters build relationships...

Don't have time for training on Dice's powerful resume search tools? Think again. Dice customers have access to free, customized training that will help you find the best tech candidates for your open reqs quickly...

The days when only the media and market analysts drove public opinions are long gone. Social media has opened up the world of influence to anybody with an audience on platforms such as blogs, Twitter,...