Recruiting in the 21st Century

Well how are you recruiting today verses last year or in the past. Job boards are down and declining from the big revolution in the 90's. Board traffic is declining rapidly, the percentage of hires from boards are declining, candidates looking for jobs are frustrated with the overload of non-related searches and that is declining. 

So what is increasing? Social networking blog traffic, and the real staple of all recruitment personal referrals. So if you are stuck in the 90's using Monster, Jobster, Hotjobs, etc then you better start maximizing your recruitment strategy by joining and advertising on social networks, blogs that are business specific and user groups. You also need to do deep web searches using boolean logic, X-ray, and flip searches and strings. 

There are lots of other ways so if you are not utilizing the 21st century techniques then you need to get with it pronto. Recruitment 2.0 and next generation 3.0(soon to come) better be in your recruitment strategy and budget.