With over a billion users, Facebook makes a great tool for sourcing and screening candidates. However, for a lot of people, it is a platform that they like to reserve purely for personal use and therefore may find it slightly intrusive for a recruiter to check them out on the platform. Someone’s Facebook profile can…
Category: Talent Acquisition
Struggling to attract the right talent? The Employer Brand Index can help you to understand strengths and weaknesses of your company as an employer.
Something that not enough recruiters realise is the power of branding and marketing. As I’ve written before, you can be a great company that offers the best jobs in the world but if your job adverts don’t reflect that then you won’t get the best candidates. While people will probably send in applications based on…
If you’re recruiting into the tech industry, but don’t necessarily have the technical knowledge yourself, it can often prove challenging to get your head around some of the jargon and understand what exactly a role entails. If you’re having trouble cracking the code and are unsure about what you should be looking for in a candidate,…
People now change jobs more times throughout their careers than ever before. In fact it’s actually the norm to switch jobs every few years, rather than climbing the ladder within the same company. In the past job hopping was regarded as a negative thing, as it sparked concerns that the individual has trouble holding down…
“Hire slow, fire fast” We’ve been told it so many times we pretty much accept it as conventional wisdom – hire slow, fire fast. It makes sense right? Hiring is the most important thing we do, we should take time over it. The last job I applied for had 7 interview stages! Slowly but surely…
What are the most popular social networks for recruiting and job search? What is smart working and how do you embrace it? Julia Jachmann, the Global Social Media Manager for the Adecco Group, spoke to us to answer all of these questions and more! Have a listen below, read the summary and be sure to subscribe to the…
Has your candidate search become a bit of a horror? Perhaps that’s a good thing! People First reckon that the ghouls and zombies of the workforce could actually bring something valuable to the table. Here’s what makes each of these 5 types of candidate such a great hire. The Zombie: Willing to attack a problem…
What does the future hold for recruitment? There’s no telling for sure, however LinkedIn have revealed what some of the key focuses for recruiters are for 2016, having surveyed 4,000 talent acquisition decision makers for their Global Recruiting Trends report. Here are a few of the trends that they found for the year ahead of us.…
Is coding a ‘language’ recruiters should know? It depends – if you [recruiter] plan to specialize in technology recruitment -I’d say it’s a good idea to learn. What exactly should recruiters know about coding? There’s lots of software code in the world – Google alone has more than 2 billion lines of code in its…