Where Do Recruiters Go To Find Talent?

If you want to get found by recruiters then you need to understand how they think! Bullhorn Reach released their 2013 North American Social Recruiting Activity Report and this information should help you understand how to improve your job search: [Read more...]

Hannah Morgan

Hannah Morgan provides no-nonsense help for new job seekers. She provides advice and serves as a guide to traverse the treacherous terrain of today's economy by focusing on pro-active strategies for job search and leveraging social networks. Career Sherpa is one of many outlets where Hannah shares her information. Follow Hannah on Twitter @careersherpa!

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How to Innovate in Recruitment

There was a wonderful piece in the satirical news site The Onion recently about the recent SXSW conference in the USA. The piece claimed that the word “innovation” had already been said 650,000 times, and drily noted the complete absence of phrases such as “investment model” and “practical business strategy“. When people think of innovation, they think of inventions such as the iPhone, or high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. This aura surrounding the concept of innovation, particularly the idea that it means doing something unique or radical, had led some recruiters that I know of to believe that innovation is impossible in recruitment. However, this certainly isn’t the case! By applying critical analysis to innovation management, I will show how agencies can become innovative. [Read more...]

Andrew Fairley

Andrew Fairley has spent the last 2 years as a Recruitment Consultant, working with clients from SMEs to blue-chips, sourcing IT staff. He is currently taking an MA in Management at the University of York. You can find him on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Filed Under: Business, Case Study, Executive, HR, Life Skills, LinkedIn, Productivity, Professional, Recruitment Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,

NEWSFLASH: A LinkedIn Company Page is STILL More Important Than A Website

I’ve blogged a bit about this recently – perhaps I was slightly psychic with my blog last year Why your company page is more important than your website (1600 shares and counting)!

However, I didn’t know that LinkedIn were going to… [Read more...]

Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones is a Director at Barclay Jones, a Consultancy working with agency recruiters, corporate recruiters and B2Bs advising them on the most effective use of technology, web and social media to improve their business processes, recruitment and bottom line. Follow Lisa on Twitter @LisaMariJones.

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How to Find Candidates’ Social Networks Simply By Using Their Profile Picture

Have you ever wondered what the easiest way is to find out the other social profiles for a specific candidate? Need to learn more about a candidate by reading their Twitter feed? Would you like to see where they check in on a regular basis via Foursquare?

There are plenty of plugins that can aggregate profiles for you, but we can go into that another time. For now, I would like to show you a quick and simple trick to search for people using their profile avatar (profile picture) using, probably the most powerful aggregator out there, Google! [Read more...]

Ben Carter

Ben Carter AKA @recruitmentgeek is a 9 year veteran at supporting recruitment companies to evolve and optimise recruitment systems to gain a higher ROI and staff sourcing efficiency. Currently Ben is the IT Manager at Global Resourcing in London. Follow him on Twitter: @recruitmentgeek

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