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Employer Branding Workplace

Career Phasmophobia – What in the World is That?

I love taking walks in autumn to breathe in the crisp air, marvel at the brilliant colors around me and prepare myself for the winter.  The fact that I really don’t care for winter is a topic for another post! One evening as I walked with a friend, we freely commented on the Halloween decorations…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How to Set up a Direct Hire Model

I wrote a blog recently in which I talked about the success of our direct hire model (How In-House Recruiting Can Save You 200k on Agency Fees). As I said quite a lot about how easy it is to do and how much money you can save, I thought I should follow it up with some…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition Timebound

How Talent Connect Attendees Use LinkedIn [STUDY]

This year, Link Humans partnered with LinkedIn to run the ‘Profile Makeover’ booth at the annual Talent Connect Europe 2012 event. The three of us (Laurence, Jorgen and Laurent over from Paris especially), had over a hundred people coming for profile makeovers, including some of the keynote speakers. Almost all of our attendees were part of…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How In-House Recruiting Can Save You 200k on Agency Fees

Well, this blog won’t make me popular with recruitment agencies, but that isn’t really anything new. Fellow Undercover Recruiter blogger Robert Wright wrote a blog recently about how recruitment agencies can survive the move towards in-house direct hire models, so I thought I would upset him too and tell you how my organisation has saved…

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Employer Branding

Personal vs. Professional Social Networks

The Mindset Divide – how people use different social networks is extremely interesting. Thanks to LinkedIn, we can now compare the use of personal and professional networks. Takeaways: The emotions portrayed on personal networks include nostalgia, having fun and distraction – professional networks are concentrated on achievement, aspiration and success. People spend time on personal networks, where-as…

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Employer Branding

5 Ways to Build a Kickass LinkedIn Company Page

A LinkedIn company page should be treated in the same way as a Facebook and Twitter page. With over 500 million members worldwide, and 20 million alone in the United Kingdom, the site is extremely popular and could attract a lot more business (and possible employees) than you first expect. Here are 5 crucial tips to…

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Employer Branding

Why Employee Referral Schemes Aren’t Boring

Everywhere I have ever worked has had an employee referral scheme. I can’t say any of them have set the world on fire. They are one of those things that you feel like you have to have, without really doing a great deal with it. A bit like my kitchen really. It’s been on my…

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Employer Branding

21 Social Media for HR Tips You Ought to Know

Heisann… (That’s “Hey There” Or “Hello” in Norwegian). My grandfather was Norwegian. That was for him! I was lucky to have him in my life. Anyways, I was reminded this past week that social and HR is hard. I am immersed in social media every day. Comes at me all the time. I rarely talk…

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Employer Branding

Are Employee Evaluations Really Necessary?

Employee evaluations, staff appraisals, performance reviews. Whatever you call them, the process of examining your growth and accomplishments over time should be an enlightening experience for you and your boss, yet when it comes to discovering the usefulness and effectiveness of employee evaluations, it depends whom you ask. In a recent survey, 91 percent of chief…