It’s been sometime since I’ve shared my insights with Undercover Recruiter (my recent move to Los Angeles with Recruiting Social has been a busy but exciting time). What better way to dive in again than by sharing some sourcing tips! Let’s get back to basics and learn how to improve our sourcing efficiency. Tip 1: X-ray…
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Recruitment is a business with no barriers to entry. The discussion on whether the industry should be better regulated is for another time. Many top billers think it is a natural progression to set up their own business. Take a bigger cut of the pie they think! But are they successful in their ambitions? Strangely, many…
We’re increasingly inventive in the way that we source top candidates. Social media has become a key part of the puzzle for any great sourcer, but the majority of us stick to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We forget the large number of other social networks, currently untapped by recruiters. Youtube is a social channel that…
I want to let you in on a particular bugbear of mine, and one which afflicts recruiters across numerous platforms. It’s that of the great candidate who continually turns down job offers. You know the type: perfect CV, looking for a new challenge (allegedly) and would fit well into a number of the roles you’re trying to fill. Interviews…
Two questions for both recruiters and candidates: How do you treat others? Do you treat them how you would like to be treated? Maybe it should be obvious that you don’t want to burn a bridge with a recruiter, or a recruiter with a candidate… Over these past 20 years, I’ve become curious about human behavior…
Agency recruitment is competitive and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd. How can you make yourself the ‘go-to’ in your market, when there are 20 other Toms, Dicks and Harries getting up close and personal with all your clients and candidates? Blogging. I mean, it’s not the be-all and end-all, but…
When I was a journalist, I organised my life by spinning plates. I quickly became a certified expert at successfully balancing twenty tasks at once, and soon found myself with two really exciting opportunities staring me in the face. One being to join the circus, the other to forge a career in recruitment marketing. After I missed the annual…
It is often called the “dark side” of recruitment; it tends to polarise recruiters, and to anyone outside of recruitment, it baffles and confuses people as to what we actually do. Rec to Rec aka R2R aka Rec2Rec (hereonin known as R2R) is a sector I have been part of from its early inception. It started to…
Now bear with me on this; I’m just as culpable as you on this one. We all have clients we deal with who we get on with like a house on fire, knowing exactly the kind of candidate they need for their numerous roles. We’re guilty of taking half-arsed job specs for them because, let’s face it,…