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Sourcing Today's Candidate: What's Working to Attract Top Talent

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Make your recruiting efforts more effective with data-driven insight into what works (and what doesn't) to source and attract today's candidates.

What are today's jobseekers' top choices for career resources, and how do they use them? From professional recruiting firms to niche job boards, informal networks and Blogs, today's candidate has a variety of resources at their disposal to help make their next career move. So - what's a recruiter to do?

This groundbreaking new field report from Monster.com, BNA, and Kennedy Information goes beyond popular anecdotes and long-held assumptions to answer perhaps the most important question facing recruiters today: where, when, and how should job search resources be used to most effectively deliver the best candidates.

Data driven findings - from the candidates themselves!

Based on a rigorous survey of more than 900 candidates – two-thirds of whom were employed or “passive” candidates – this field report presents the recruiting industry’s first detailed roadmap to the media, methods and resources used by today’s job-seekers and career-minded candidates.

Step by Step To More Effective Recruiting!

First, our analysts determine the usage and usefulness of today's job search resources - from the candidates' perspective. You'll determine how candidates find jobs and career information, and how they assess the usefulness of over 20 different resources used by recruiters today.

From there, you'll gain a unprecedented understanding of the challenges and frustrations facing today's candidates - a unique insight you can leverage right away for your organization.

Finally, based on these data-driven findings our analysts provide five ways to improve your recruiting odds against the competition.

Hear directly from the job-seeker market like NEVER before!

This unique report examines the effectiveness over 20 different career related resources in three levels of usage with findings are broken out by:

• Search status (Passive Employed, Active Employed, Active Unemployed)
• Job Level (Administrative, Professional/Technical, Managerial, Executive)
• Job Function, and more

PLUS feedback from some of the recruiting community's top thinkers!

Recruiters can use this detailed study to determine:

• How best to align their efforts with candidates preferred search practices
• How to minimize activities most likely to frustrate or turn off desirable candidates
• How to turn candidates’ current challenges and frustrations into opportunities

Sourcing Today's Candidate: What's Working to Attract Top Talent is 66 pages, with 17 charts and tables and hundreds of data points.

Find out more from Kennedy Information at http://www.kennedyinfo.com/recruiting/sourcing.

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