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The Most Engaged UK Recruitment Women on LinkedIn

LinkedIn UK have compiled a top 10 ‘power user’ list of the most engaged UK women in the recruiting industry on the world’s largest professional network.

The power user list, which includes professionals from across the UK and from a mixture of large and small recruiting agencies as well as large organisations such as the BBC and Harrods, is a snapshot of the wide range of talent acquisition professionals using LinkedIn in their career.

LinkedIn compiled the list by looking at a range of engagement metrics including status update frequency, network strength, engagement in groups and a number of other factors.

This power user list comes off the back of new research from LinkedIn which shows that 66% of professional women in the UK believe it is possible to ‘have it all’ (fulfilling career, relationship and children) in today’s working environment.

The research also identifies that the majority of women in the UK (62%) define professional success as having the right balance between work and personal life, compared to 40% five to ten years ago.

Here at The Undercover Recruiter we like to share best practices from the recruitment world so we set out to ask these women their best LinkedIn tips. Here is the list: [Read more...]

Jorgen Sundberg

The original Undercover Recruiter, after 7 years in tech recruiting Jorgen now runs Link Humans, a social media marketing agency in London.

Filed Under: LinkedIn, Recruitment, UK Tagged With: UK, Women

The Cost of Employment in the UK [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic by Stephens Scown shows results highlighting that employment in the UK continues to be driven by small and medium enterprises (SMES).

Takeaways:

SMEs employ 59.1% of people in the UK.
72% of businesses say that their main recruitment difficulty is lack of specialist skills.
It costs £8,333 to hire a manager in the UK.
Getting employment wrong can be very costly – with 297,100 tribunal claims in 2011-2012. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

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

Filed Under: Infographic, Recruitment, UK Tagged With: businesses, claim, employment, enterprises, hire, Hiring, manager, recruitment, tribunal, UK

What are the Best, Worst, Highest and Lowest Paid Jobs? [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic (courtesy of JobZoo) shows the reality of jobs in these modern times – the most desirable, unpopular and the best and worst paid.

Takeaways

The best paid job in the UK is ‘head of major organisation’ with a highest average of £114,450 pa.
The second highest paid job is aircraft pilot – at £74,442 pa.
80% of people reading this are dissatisfied with their jobs – is that true? Let us know in the comments!
Want to be paid to be a zombie? You can at Tower Bridge, London for up to £30,000 a year.
The most unpopular job title is IT Director. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

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

Filed Under: Infographic, Job Search, UK Tagged With: bestw, high, highest paid, job, jobs, low, lowest paid, pay, round up, UK, worst

How to Fight the Skilled Worker Shortage [Top 4 Tips]

Taken at face value, there’s no shortage of people that you can employ. Headlines regularly bombard unsuspecting readers with statistics that suggest the UK is facing high unemployment rates and you would be forgiven for thinking that this means employers can very easily pick and chose who they recruit with very little effort.

I’ve seen intelligent and respectable business owners writing off the unemployed as lazy when they’ve seen their vacancies for highly specialised roles unanswered for long periods of time, but the truth of the matter is that you might actually have a much smaller pool of people you can draw from than you might expect. The roles you are trying to fill may be more of a niche than you think and there has always been a shortage of skilled and experienced workers. Our modern climate is no real exception.

Here are a few things that you can do to fight against the skilled worker shortage: [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Recruitment, UK Tagged With: job, recruit, recruitment, skill, skilled, workers