Looking to enter a career in recruitment? Or perhaps you’d just like to get better at your job? From finding it easy to chat with people, to the gift of the gab, there are a few attributes that a recruiter should have to succeed in the industry. Here are a handful of the top qualities that…
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“Your instincts may have gotten you this far, but it’s solid data that can take your business to the next level – if used correctly.” – Mike Michalowicz, CEO of Provendus Group Watching every organisation around you change their decision-making from a foundation in natural leadership instinct, to a data-based formula is difficult. It’s even…
Promoting a job vacancy is a bit like marketing. In order to reach the relevant people, you have to produce content that is going to catch your target audience’s eye and encourage them to engage with it. In order to attract attention from the top talent, your job ad should boast the top qualities of your company, sell how great job…
In an ideal world, recruiters wouldn’t exist. Every business would have a steady stream of experienced, driven future employees, all queuing up outside the Managing Director’s door, ready to get to work. All companies would have fabulous career paths that their employees would never want to leave. In fact, they’d probably all be like a…
A topic of conversation at Sourcecon Fall 2015 (a national conference for recruiters and sourcers to learn about different recruitment tools and strategies) was: how to get hiring managers involved in the recruitment process. Here was my advice on how to do this… First the challenge. Many hiring managers say: “Why do I need to…
In a competitive and complex job market, relationships reign supreme. This is shown, more than ever, in the new Recruiter Nation study released today by Jobvite. The study was carried out on over 1,000 recruiters from a wide range of industries and goes far beyond social recruiting, diving into the increasing complexity behind a recruiter’s job.…
So far, we’ve discussed the overall recruitment process and the role a recruiter should play in the process. In this post, I’ll give an overview of what businesses should be considering going into a recruitment process and in turn, how to maximise what they get out of said process. The goal of the Process Job…
Emails – love them or loathe them, they are very effective for recruitment marketing, for reaching both clients and candidates. What are the elements of a successful email marketing strategy? We spoke to Tamsin Fox-Davies, Senior Development Manager at Constant Contact and you could listen to the chat below. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast. Why is email marketing…
Ever wanted a form of advertising where you don’t have to pay upfront? What if you are not guaranteed certain results and end up paying way too much? FEAR NOT. Introducing performance based advertising, where you end up paying based on the results you achieve. This is more effective because you know if what you…