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Social Recruiting Software & Referral Recruiting Software - MeshHire. Recruitment_Strategies__Practices-ebook.pdf. Job Choices 2012 - Business. Measuring An Employee's Worth? Consider Influence. Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numbers or number of goals met. Tomorrow, though, it could be based on something that until now has remained ephemeral: organizational influence. Salesforce.com's Chatter system released a new feature this spring called Influencer. It purports to measure how influential you are within your company, by tabulating, for example, how your fellow workers respond to the items you post to your corporate social network. It's still a work in progress, senior director of Chatter product marketing Dave King tells Fast Company.

King says he's heard from CIOs, for example, that, when they have a new system to roll out, they'll look up who the most influential people are in various departments and bring them in for a briefing ahead of time, in the hopes they'll be able to evangelize the system to their peers. Chatter, which was launched two years ago, is not the only company working on a metric for influence within organizations. The Questions You Should and Shouldn't Ask In A Job Interview. Recruitment_Strategies__Practices-ebook. How Colleges Are Becoming Entrepreneurial. Editor’s note: Dan Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and management consulting firm. He is also the #1 international bestselling author of Me 2.0 and was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 list in 2010.

Subscribe to his updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel. Colleges are starting to become startup incubators by offering a variety of classes and programs in order to help students pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions. Why are colleges creating these classes, programs and centers? College business plan competitions One way colleges stimulate entrepreneurship, innovation, and gain publicity is by holding business plan competitions, where students present to a panel of judges in hopes to win a prize or get funding for their ventures. Students can become entrepreneurs through education Students who take entrepreneurship classes don’t always have their own business. Justifying an entrepreneurship program Recent graduate success stories. The Future of Student Recruitment - Genius Recruiter. Higher education is at a crossroads. Three trends have emerged over the last few years that I believe will mark a significant transformation for student recruitment. These trends are the growth of international education, the rise of social media and the proliferation of mobile devices.

Opportunity awaits for institutions that can recognize and take advantage of these changes. International Education The number of students studying at foreign universities has jumped by more than 400% over the past 30 years and is expected to grow to 8 million students by 2025. Social Media The social media revolution is underway. Mobile The mobile arena is just exploding. Implications for Student Recruitment A perfect storm is forming for student recruiters where mobile, social media and international education intersect. Modern technology presents an opportunity for student recruiters that cannot be missed. Lower costsMeasurable analyticsA pre-existing worldwide distribution system for their content.