Recruiting Essentials

Oscar Mager

Oscar Mager is a Recruiting Specialist from The Netherlands, active as contract recruiter, talent sourcer and recruiting consultant, but basically interested in all things social recruiting. He founded Recruiting Essentials, a consulting and business service that helps companies to find talent and to enhance recruiting practices, leveraging social media for recruitment and developing social recruiting strategies. Oscar spends most of his time finding talent, discovering new sourcing techniques and optimizing recruitment ROI. He is always open for challenging recruiting and sourcing projects and recruitment consultancy assignments.

#TruEurope – The European Recruiting Unconference

Published 9 februari 2012 | By Oscar Mager

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Following the success of previous TRU Events in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Dublin, Manchester, Leeds, Bucharest, Boston, San Fransisco, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Melbourne, Australia and Paris since the start of TRU in November 2009, TruEurope is the first truly European Recruiting Unconference to be organized in Brussels on Thursday April 19th and Friday, April 20th, 2012. Continue reading →

Recruiting Rocks, Raps and even has some Jazz

Published 30 november 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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Music is in the air, as I am very excited to announce that as of this week I will be joining the Recruitment team of Sonos, the leading manufacturer of wireless music systems, as a Contract Recruiter for the EMEA region. Recruiting at Sonos will definitely put the concept of Recruiting Rocks in a whole new dimension.

Sonos is a company created by music lovers, for music lovers. The Sonos Wireless HiFi System lets you stream all the music on earth wirelessly in every room of your home with control from your Android smartphone, iPhone, or iPad. Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hilversum, Netherlands, Shenzen, China, and Penang, Malaysia. Continue reading →

Great Recruiting: Changing Recruiting Attitude #greatrecruiting

Published 21 november 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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Last month exactly ten years ago Jim Collins published his bestseller Good to Great (G2G), in which he describes the results of his research on Why Some Companies Make the Leap, and Others Don’t.

It’s an interesting research and an interesting read that reveals the seven characteristics of companies that made a succesful transition from being average companies to great companies, but also shows how companies can fail to make the transition to greatness. For his research Collins defined Greatness as financial performance several multiples better than the market average over a sustained period of time, and it took him and his research team 15,000 hours to analyze 1,435 Fortune 500 companies to finally select 11 Good-to-Great companies. Continue reading →

#TruYear – Next Stop #TruAmsterdam

Published 15 november 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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It’s been a #TruYear, really. For those of you not familiar with the Tru concept or Tru organisor Bill Boorman, just have a look at The Recruiting Unconference post I wrote previously or read the interview with Bill in the October issue of Recruiter Magazine.

In the past 10 months I have been to a number of Tru Events: TruLondon3, TruStockholm, TruAmsterdam3, TruDublin, TruLeeds, TruRomania and TruLondon4. Sadly though I had to miss TruBoston, TruSanFran and TruSA, which took place in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week. And the year hasn’t even ended yet. For this month we will have the fourth edition of TruAmsterdam, or #TruAM as it has been hashtagged now, taking place on November 24. This special edition of TruAmsterdam is followed by the notorious RIDE event (Recruitment Industry Dance Event) organised by RAVE-cruitment. And there’s TruAustralia in December and to top it of TruChristmas hosted by my good friend Johnny Campbell in Dublin. Continue reading →

Verrassende winnaar iTalent Competitie #HRTechEurope

Published 3 november 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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De verrassende winnaar van de iTalent competitie op de HR Tech Europe 2011 conferentie is niet genoemd als deelnemer in mijn eerdere blogpost deze week. De winnende innovator werd op het laatste moment toegevoegd en met succes. MIIAtech durfde het tijdens de iTalent competitie als enige aan om een live demo te doen van hun produkt en het plukte daar direct de vruchten van. Stephen Lernout van MIIAtech uit België ging met de prijs naar huis. Continue reading →

Innovatie in HR en Recruitment: iTalent op #HRTechEurope

Published 1 november 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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Start-ups zijn altijd al belangrijke aanjagers geweest voor nieuwe technologieën en onmisbaar voor innovaties. Verschillende onderzoeken tonen namelijk aan dat innovatiesucces niet wordt bepaald door de hoeveelheid geld die in Research & Development wordt gestoken, maar dat cultuur, organisatiestructuur en gedrevenheid sleutelfactoren zijn tot het succes. En juist bij startups is dat vaak beter vertegenwoordigd, dan de hoeveelheid geld op de bankrekening Continue reading →

Google+ Recruitment Hangout

Published 6 oktober 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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Wil je weten hoe je Google+ kunt gebruiken voor Recruitment? Wil je met vakgenoten discussiëren over de vraag of Google+ Hangouts de nieuwe manier wordt om sociale media te gebruiken voor het interviewen van kandidaten? Of ervaar je een social media fatigue en wil je eerst kijken wat je met Google+ kunt doen, voordat je al je tijd in een nieuw social medium investeert? Je zit tenslotte al op Facebook, of niet? Continue reading →

Technology Toolbox 101: Mobile and Social Recruiting

Published 5 oktober 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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The high volume demands of recruiting in the 21st century drive hiring professionals’ search for the next best thing for finding talent. Recruiters have always been quick on the uptake when it comes to new and innovative technology, especially if this technology makes it easier to stay connected. Lately, there’s a lot of buzz surrounding social recruiting and mobile recruiting – and many recruiters are blindly jumping on the bandwagon. But what’s just buzz, and what will become a permanent part of every recruiter’s toolbox? Continue reading →

Social Recruiting Event: een nabeschouwing #SRE2011

Published 5 oktober 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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Recruiting Events zijn op dit blog een veelbesproken onderwerp en het Social Recruiting Event van Recruiters United, dat op 28 september plaatsvond in een afgevuld auditorium op het Randstad hoofdkantoor in Amsterdam, verdient zeker een plek.

Ik bewonder sprekers die feilloos aanvoelen hoe ze hun publiek kunnen blijven boeien. Want hoe moeilijk is het om de aandacht vast te houden, vooral wanneer de informatie niet wordt aangereikt in hapklare brokken van maximaal 140 tekens. Tenslotte zijn het vaak dezelfde 140 tekens die ervoor zorgen dat die zo gewenste aandacht verslapt. En dat risico is nadrukkelijk aanwezig op het Social Recruiting Event, waarbij de deelnemers via Twitter gewoontegetrouw een prachtig ‘backchannel‘ genereren. Continue reading →

Mobile Recruiting: hot or not?

Published 30 september 2011 | By Oscar Mager

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Is Mobile Recruiting hot or not? Well at least on September 30th mobile is hot in San Francisco, where mobile recruiting futurologists gather to discuss mobile recruiting at mRecruitingcamp, the first conference that focuses exclusively on all topics that will help HR staff and recruiters to utilize mobile media and communications technology to leverage mobile communications as an effective talent attraction and engagement channel. For the full conference schedule click here. Continue reading →