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Employer Branding

Why Your LinkedIn Company Page is STILL More Important than Your Website

Do you need to source candidates?  Do you need to study your competition? Do you want to keep a very close eye on what your clients are doing / their recruitment opportunities / their starters and leavers?  Well, read on… Last year, the lovely Undercover Recruiter (thanks Lisa!) published a blog for me entitled “Why…

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Employer Branding Timebound

13 Employee Referral New Year’s Resolutions

The new year is upon us and it means a clean slate, an open mind, and lots of New Year’s resolutions. Professionally, it also means looking at practices and seeing how your organization can improve in 2013. While it’s no surprise that organizations beef up their talent pool at the beginning of the year, how…

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Employer Branding

Interview Tips Learnt from a Garbage Collector

A few weeks ago, I got a call from a man (let’s call him John) asking me to write his resume along with a cover letter for a specific job he wanted to apply for. He’d been working as a casual Council Worker (specifically collecting garbage and driving garbage trucks) for the last few months, and wanted to…

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Employer Branding

How to Detect and Prevent Payroll Fraud

Payroll fraud is most simply defined as employees cheating the payroll system at their place of employment to receive funds to which they are not entitled. There are many ways payroll fraud can be committed, including from salary, hourly and commission workers, as well as ways to prevent and detect it. What is Payroll Fraud? For workers…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Why It’s Time for Your Recruiting Process to GO LEAN

Recruitment marketing has reached an apex of sorts. More than one person has mentioned the shift from search to predictive sourcing in the last few months and I happen to think they are right on the money. Today large companies are focusing their talent acquisition budgets in content marketing, and candidate research and nurturing. That…