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The Top 10 Rad Jobs of the Future [INFOGRAPHIC]

What will the future hold in terms of jobs? This infographic (by Monolith) outlines what may happen and which will be the best jobs available – which would you take? Takeaways: Want to be a personality programmer? You’ll be able to take control of artificial intelligence! How about a garbage miner? You’ll be looking through…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

How to Use Google+ in an Integrated Search, Mobile and Social Media Strategy

If you’re a recruitment agency with a decent marketer, your organisation’s digital strategy right now focuses on three separate channels: Search (paid and organic), Social Media and Mobile. Now, imagine a world where search optimisation, social media and mobile can be pulled together into a single integrated digital campaign. How can this be achieved? Here’s a…

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Talent Acquisition

How Big Data is Taking Recruiters from “I Think” to “I Know”

Anyone who knows the recruiting field understands the intense workload and fast pace that recruiters must operate in. Additionally, recruiting isn’t a skill you learn once and then spend the rest of your career on autopilot, either. As a result, recruiters have always needed to be the early adopters of the HR world, passionate about…

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Talent Acquisition

Recruiters: Why You’re Probably Thinking About Leads Backwards

Imagine that you have two leads: the first is from a candidate you just qualified, who told you that they have just applied to a specific role at a specific company. The second is from another candidate (for the sake of argument called Dave) who you have placed in the past, and has just told…

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Workplace

Does Your Social Media Size Really Matter?

For many people social media size does matter and the recent focus on social proof is causing many of us to be far too concerned with how big we are! Social media is a powerful tool to build our personal brands, but here is the catch: we can easily fall into the trap of focusing too much…

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Talent Acquisition

What are the Main Benefits of Hiring Graduates?

Often a great business decision, choosing to hire a student or a recent college graduate gives all businesses much more job description flexibility. Of course, when a business is trying to decide between hiring a recent college grad or pursuing a more experienced workforce veteran, there are many pros and cons that need to be…

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Workplace

How to Turn Your Social Media Obsession into a Career

This infographic, by the University of Florida, outlines the ways in which you can turn your social media obsession into a career! Do you want to turn your obsession into a job? Takeaways: There are 850 million monthly active users on Facebook, with 77% of B2C companies saying they acquired customers through the platform. There are…

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Employer Branding

11 Reasons Why Graduates Never Get Hired

With over 20 years of experience, Mark O’Toole has outlined 11 reasons why graduates will lose out on jobs in this set of slides. Have you done any of these? Let us know in the comments! Takeaways: Don’t make your resume longer than a 25 year professional, especially when you’re a graduate! Make sure you…

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Talent Acquisition

How Tech Helps Recruiters Clear the Road to Talent

This infographic (from Hire Right) shows the right way to take the road to talent. Takeaways: Job postings influence applicants – make sure they reflect your brand! Most job seekers now expect to come across job postings on social media – use it! Online applications should take no more than 5 minutes. RELATED: Why Employee…