The HR software you buy is going to impact everyone in your business for years to come. How long did the software take to implement? Vendors often promise that the software will be delivered in the perfect timescales for you. What’s been the best thing about the vendor and the software? What does the software not do that you wish it did? It’s incredibly difficult to know exactly what you want until you’ve started using the software. MORE

According to its 2014 Social Recruiting Survey , recruiting software platform specialist Jobvite found that mobile continues to be a burgeoning channel for candidate engagement and they caution that recruiters who don’t leverage mobile will risk losing talent to the competition. The survey revealed that 55% of recruiters use or plan to use a mobile career site to support recruiting efforts. Talent Management MORE

Now, I know, “social media recruiting” is shaping up to be one of those buzzwords that’s more bark than bite. And I know that LinkedIn gets all the social recruiting love from hiring managers these days. Twitter can be a great addition to your social media recruiting efforts, but not if you muck it up. If not, you may have more success with other social networks, or sticking with good old-fashioned offline recruiting. MORE

Solutions that potentially solve virtually every conceivable problem within the broad spectrum of Human Resources—recruitment, on-boarding, performance management, employee engagement, recognition, talent management—the list goes on. Guest post by Jeff Waldman, Founder & Social HR Strategist of Stratify and SocialHRCamp. We’ve seen an unprecedented explosion in SaaS-based HR technology in the past 5+ years. MORE

Talent pool, talent network or talent community—semantics shemantics. Part of the problem with understanding talent communities, lies in our attempts to define it. While we could sit around and debate the meaning of specific words, concepts and ideas, a simple definition just doesn’t capture the essence of what a talent community really is at its core. Instead, what if we equate the core purpose of a talent community to the practice of relationship building? MORE

Update 9/13/16: This article has been updated with three new hiring software products, including several that come highly recommended from our commenters. In the spirit of free stuff, and with apologies to Robert Heinlein , I’ve crafted a list of the finest free applicant tracking software solutions you’ll ever find. OpenCATs was originally built as an enterprise ATS and targets HR professionals, recruiters and staffing and placement agencies. Software blog. MORE

The HR software you buy is going to impact everyone in your business for years to come. How long did the software take to implement? Vendors often promise that the software will be delivered in the perfect timescales for you. What’s been the best thing about the vendor and the software? What does the software not do that you wish it did? It’s incredibly difficult to know exactly what you want until you’ve started using the software. MORE