Anne BerkowichReferral Networking helps companies leverage current and former employees as referrers of talent and new business. For more than 10 years, SelectMinds has created corporate employee and alumni networks that help great organizations recruit talent, enhance their brand, and develop new business by focusing on one key fact: good people refer other good people.
Welcome to a Inside Recruiting Channel podcast on TotalPicture Radio. This is Peter Clayton reporting from New York City. Joining us today is the founder and CEO of SelectMinds, Anne Berkowitch.
Anne and I first met a couple of weeks ago at a dinner salon in New York City hosted by John Sumser from HRExaminer -- a very fun and interesting evening...
Questions Peter Clayton asked Anne Berkowitch
- Give us your elevator pitch. How does SelectMinds help companies "build employee networks?"
- 2010. Good year for your company? Does Q4 look promising?
- On the SelectMinds web site, you have the logos of many of your clients -- companies like IBM, Hewett, Intuit, Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase, Swiss RE -- What are your clients tell you? Are they going to be hiring in the 4th quarter?
- I do a podcast every year with our good friend Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads regarding his Annual "Source of Hire Survey". Here's a quote from their 2010 report: "The most efficient way to hire someone or find a job? Referrals, referrals, referrals. Referrals make up 26.7% of all external hires. Corporate plans for 2010 indicate a strong interest in leveraging referrals." In fact, one of my favorite quotes from Gerry is: "Never, ever, apply for any job, anywhere, without a referral," which I think is great advice. I imagine SelectMinds tracks this kind of data. What does your research show? (Give us some stats)
- I've heard there's been a resurgence in hiring of boomerang employees. Have you been tracking this?
- Tell us about TalentVine. What is it, and how does it work?
- One of the big complaints (and issues) I hear from HR Directors and recruiters is that none of their systems talk to each other. Are you able to integrate your software with ATS, CRM and HRIS legacy systems?
- We all know that social networking sites like Linkedin and Facebook have become very fertile resources for recruiters. How does SelectMinds leverage social networks?
- You have a white paper on the SelectMinds' web site titled "Referral Programs 2.0: How Social Networking Maximizes Referrals. How are some of your currently using social networks in their recruiting efforts?
- Your white paper quotes extensively from Jeanne Meister's book The 2020 Workplace -- How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow's Employees. Can you share with us some of her predictions?
- So here is one of my favorite rants: There are many companies blocking Facebook, blocking Twitter, blocking Linkedin from crossing the corporate firewall. And yet, these same companies have Twitter accounts, have set up Facebook fan pages. What's your opinion?
- What haven't we discussed that you'd like our listeners to know about SelectMinds?
About Peter Clayton
Peter Clayton, Producer/Host, is an award-winning producer/director of radio, television, documentary, video, interactive and Web-based media who has created breakthrough media for a wide array of Fortune 100 clients.
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