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Retailers and shippers are projecting to hire about a total of 800,000 in seasonal staff this winter for what is expected to be the strongest holiday shopping season in this millennium, thus far.  However, employers are finding it more difficult to fill these seasonal positions in 2014 than in recent years, and the dearth of applicants has prompted companies to explore new channels for hire. The Wall Street Journal caught the trend, reporting that companies are primarily flocking to one new destination to source more qualified candidates: social media.

Halloween is upon us, a time of year when we evaluate and test our fears most, which is why we couldn’t think of a better time to revisit the top fears that still prevent employers from fully adopting social recruiting.
Annual industry studies prove social recruiting use is rising every year, and with that expanded adoption, we’ve seen many old fears dissipate rapidly. But there are a few fears that we can confront today and dispel with a healthy dose of reality—here are the top three:

We aim to educate our clients on all-things social recruiting. However, sometimes our clients teach us about the tenacity it takes to push social recruiting campaigns to the next level. Looking over our customer case studies, we’ve identified the three fundamental qualities of our most successful social recruiters.

• The U.S. Adoption of this American Holiday Is Rumored To Have Canadian Roots

As one story goes, Peter J. McGuire, a leader of the American Federation of Labor, first proposed the holiday in May 1882 after experiencing the annual labor festival celebrated in Toronto, Canada.
Now this version of the holiday’s origin has been widely disputed, but actually the history books are altogether unsure who truly deserves credit for first proposing the holiday—was it Peter J. McGuire or Matthew Maguire, a machinist and secretary of the Central Labor Union? No one knows, but what’s certain is the holiday’s troubled birthplace, occurring in the dark days of American industrial labor.

Cartoonist: Carolita Johnson