The Undercover Recruiter

How Employee Referrals Can Impact Your Employer Brand [INFOGRAPHIC]

The infographic below, compiled by RolePoint spells out just why it’s imperative for employers to focus on fostering a positive brand if they want to find and retain the best employees. Some key stats include:

Companies with a defined employer brand dominate 60% of the labor market
Companies with an unmanaged employer brand make up only 40% of the market
17% of companies with a defined employer brand saw an increase in their quality of hires

If companies want to reduce turnover and improve hiring, they’ve got to start with themselves. Check out more stats on the importance of a strong employer brand in the infographic below. [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Employer, Employer Branding, Infographic Tagged With: brand, branding, Employer, referral, Referrals, Rolepoint

How to Build an Active Candidate Sourcing Strategy [6 Key Tips]

When it comes to candidate sourcing, the conversation of passive vs active candidates feels like it’s been done to death. As Greg Savage pointed out in his blog post “There’s no such thing as a passive candidate”, there are no passive or active candidates…there are just candidates. Most people, if offered a great job would be open to listening to what you have to say.

The question should really be; does your business have a passive or an active sourcing strategy?

Don Charlton, the CEO and Founder of The Resumator, outlined some great tips and tricks in a recent webinar about building active sourcing strategies.

How do you know if your sourcing strategy is passive? Well ask yourself some of these question:

Do you post jobs as standard on job boards or LinkedIn and just wait for candidates to apply?
Are you or your recruiters spending their days trawling through hundreds of average CV’s with no time to actively source candidates and/or build talent pipelines and communities?
Do you tweet a job once and then if there’s no response, decide that it doesn’t really work?
Do the candidates in your recruitment database just sit there whilst more and more are added?

If you answered yes to most of these questions, then yes you have a passive sourcing strategy!

Being a passive organisation when it comes to sourcing great talent, is never going to provide you with the best outcome or hit the mark at hiring the best in the business. You’ll always be hiring the best candidates out the talent that saw your ad but not the best talent in the market.

Here are 6 ways to ensure that your sourcing strategy is ACTIVE and that people… namely candidates, are talking about you, your business and your jobs! [Read more...]

Suzanne Chadwick

Suzanne is the Digital & Sourcing Innovation Manager for HudsonRPO, AsiaPac ~ Working with organisations to develop targeted sourcing, social recruiting & engagement strategies to meet business needs.

Filed Under: Employer Branding, Hiring, Recruitment, Social Media, Social Recruiting, Sourcing Tagged With: candidate, candidates sourcing, Employer Branding, how to build a sourcing strategy, How-To, Networking, recruitment, social recruiting, Sourcing, sourcing strategies

Candidate Experience: How to Get it Right

With the first ever CandEs UK Awards Ceremony having just been celebrated recently in February, the issue of candidate experience continues to be a hot topic of discussion across the industry.

The awards recognise companies that set high standards for how they treat candidates and is open to organisations that recruit in the British employment markets. Organisations were judged on their understanding of the realm of recruiting and the way in which candidates find and apply for jobs.

Three companies walked away with distinctions: Avanade, GE Capital and RMS. [Read more...]

Amanda Ashworth

Amanda Ashworth is an agency recruiter with a passion for social recruiting, who now focuses on marketing. She blogs about the changes within the recruitment industry and social media. Follow Amanda on Twitter @RecSocially.

Filed Under: Employer Branding, Job Search Tagged With: applicant, candidate, candidatee, Experience, interview, process, recruitment

How to Create the Perfect Job Posting – Field Guide [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic (courtesy of Herd Wisdom) shows how recruiters can create the perfect job posting.

There are currently around 5 million jobs posted online – in comparison, there are 13.7 million unemployed people in the US and Canada.
When creating a job posting – make the title catchy and memorable.
Make your company appear confident, innovative and competent in the description.
Job descriptions need to be accurate and strategic – highlight the positives and negatives.
Use unbiased terms and write everything in the present tense.

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

Filed Under: Employer, Infographic, Job Board Tagged With: board, Company, description, job, job post, posting