Recruitment is an ever evolving industry, especially with the growth of technology and social media. The way that candidates are sourced, jobs are advertised and businesses develop their employer brands are all things that have been adapting over the years. Whereas job boards are still going strong, like in previous years; social media is on…
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Many of us in the recruitment industry talk about consolidating talent data within our organisations. Sure, that may sound like a buzz phrase. But nothing is more important than bridging both, internal and external data, in today’s web-driven recruiting environment. In essence, such data consolidation allows recruiters to establish seamless ad hoc links between candidate…
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – JK Rowling Failure is a natural thing, and many people would argue that you can’t…
I wrote a blog for recently giving my ten tips for a blog page. I created this list as I was (too often!) coming across recruiter blogs which just didn’t work, either technically, or content-wise. So many recruiters want to be noticed, to attract, to source – and having a blog is a crucial way to achieve this.…
Before I started working in recruitment there was a sense of mystery around exactly what a recruiter does. A sentiment shared no doubt by a number of others. A recruiter does a lot of different things outside of simply working on a job; however for the purpose of this I’m going to focus on what…
Most people think of Instagram as a platform to share real-time moments. For me? I think of Instagram as a great networking tool. After a recent social sourcing workshop via Recruiting Social I was asked a follow up question: how do you use Instagram as a networking tool? I explained: for recruiters’ social media sites [Instagram] can…
When you take on a new vacancy, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to send over your terms of business to the client and find that they whizz them straight back signed and without question. When that does happen it’s the exception rather than the rule! What’s more likely is that you’re going to have…
Acting as the middlemen between employers and those seeking employment, staffing agencies promise to make recruitment a lot simpler for the management of any company, regardless of size. They’ve been around for many decades and have pretty much shaped the modern corporate landscape in terms of labor market values. Perhaps the greatest benefit of using…
You’ve probably heard about how lots of businesses are now using Instagram as a marketing tool, but have you ever thought about using it for recruiting? “Social recruiting” isn’t really anything new, though it’s probably something you associate more with ‘professional’ networks such as LinkedIn or even Twitter. However, there’s so much more to it than purely…