Where we are at now? I recruit for all types of recruitment businesses and represent all levels of recruiters, although generally I tend to specialise more in very experienced individuals, given my tenure in the sector, from a peerage perspective. As someone who physically enters and immerses themselves into their clients cultures, getting to know…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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Social media is maturing and becoming a core part of business for many organisations. Should it managed by an agency or is it better looked after in-house? We spoke to Rylan Holey to find out what he thinks. Ryan is a music blogger, a cellist, a member of the London Philharmonic Choir, speaker at #smlondon LIVE!, London…
With competition in the recruitment industry remaining fierce it is crucial to ensure your recruiters are regularly interacting with your candidates. Analysing candidate feedback can help your company meet internal gold standards and drive service improvements to provide candidates with the best possible recruitment experience. One of the best ways your agency can develop how…
The candidate experience is a crucial element of the recruitment process; without the candidates who’s going to fill all the roles? It’s therefore important that you ensure that you provide them with the support, information and communication that they require, or they are likely to look elsewhere. There are a number of issues that can…
Recruitment is one of the biggest industries in the UK, and as a result, competition is ferocious. For every seasoned recruitment pro, there’s a feisty new graduate, prepared to offer reduced fees in order to get kick-started in their career. However, there’s one thing that even the youngest, most ambitious rookie should learn from the…
Last month I covered the topic: how to use Instagram as a networking tool. This month…. how to use Instagram to source potential hires. A lot of times when recruiters talk about using Instagram to source and recruit they only use the social media platform to post a visual job ad– a modern day version…
We’re all pretty familiar with social recruiting by now, however the focus is generally placed on platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter and a lot of companies are yet to discover the value of Instagram as a recruiting tool. Being a visual platform, Instagram is perfect for showcasing photographs of your team, events and company life,…
Job hopping and changing is on the rise more than ever before! Recruiters need to be taking advantage of this opportunity, but there is also a lot of competition. In order to attract this group of people we need to understand why they changed jobs and how they did it. This way you will better…
Apparently your LinkedIn profile is 11 times more likely to be viewed if it has a photo, but this doesn’t mean any old photo. As a professional network, your profile image should represent the professional you. First impressions stick and a large part of the judgement people make when visiting your profile will be based…