5 Recruitment Marketing Articles of the Week 5.31.14 to 6.6.14

(Before It's News)

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and other recruitment trends. In this article, we’ll be talking about LinkedIn Job Aggregation, social recruiting, passive candidates and Zappos.

I’d also like to share two events where SmashFly will be exhibiting next week:

Event: OHUG Global Conference (Booth #413)

Event: HCI Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference (Table #6)

Here are the articles that interested us (in no particular order), enjoy!:

5 Things to Know: LinkedIn To Aggregate your ATS Jobs by Kris Dunn (@Kris_Dunn)

Great piece on LinkedIn’s recent announcement and what it means for recruiting organizations.

Don’t Call Recruiting Recruiting by Todd Raphael (@ToddRaphael)

Interesting look at the self perceptions of recruiting departments.

What’s Social Recruiting? 25 Experts Weigh In. by David Smooke (@DavidSmooke)

Nice collection of quotes on social recruiting.  Worth a look.

5 Stellar Strategies for Recruiting Passive Candidates by Charles Coy (@oleskoo)

Good read from Charles on what it takes to build relationships with quality candidates.

Is Zappos Zapping of Job Listings Really Smart – or Fair? by Laurie Ruettimann (@LRuettimann)

Examining Zappos’s ‘No Job Postings’ Recruiting Approach – Innovation or Craziness? by Dr. John Sullivan (@DrJohnSullivan)

My Obligatory Zappos Post by Jeremy Roberts (@ImJeremyR)

The Zappos no job postings news has led great conversation.  Here are 3 more articles on the news.

Hope you enjoy the list and please connect with me there via Twitter @smashfly.

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