LinkedIn has the potential to be a great recruitment tool for sourcing and marketing your brand, but it’s important that you make the most of the platform to optimum results. Here are 15 useful tips for recruiters already using LinkedIn. 1. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has these 4 essentials: A picture – should look professional and reflect your…
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Something that doesn’t get enough attention when thinking about recruitment, is that for the majority of people who attend an interview with your business it will be their only direct interaction with your company. How they are treated throughout that process, good or bad, will form not only their view of your business but indirectly…
Are you trying to attract candidates by offering fancy job titles and goodie bags? Then you might need to rethink your strategy. An infographic from LinkedIn’s Talent Trends 2015 sheds some light on how candidates want to be recruited in 2015. From the second they start researching a new job to penning their signature to a…
Google+ – lots of talk but very little action from the average recruiter. I ran a PR and Content Workshop with BlueSkyPR recently and the marketers in the room all frowned when the Google+ topic came up. Many of you lovely people, just haven’t engaged with the product – BUT you may have ticked a box and…
This post is sponsored by InHiro. Do you use all available sourcing channels? Recruiting can be a tough job when you don’t know where to start, and it can be pretty expensive too. Here is a sourcing map created by InHiro – a simple tool for recruiters. Takeaways: Everything starts with a job description. Think about it as…
Recruitment marketing has come a long way since job boards had they heyday. From social to mobile to content and now inbound marketing. But what exactly is inbound marketing and why is it important to staffing and recruitment agencies? To get some answers I had a chat with our friend David Smooke who is an expert in…
Confidence in recruitment has increased due to the more positive economic outlook in the UK. This is great news for recruiters; however, it can be a double edged sword. As opportunities increase for candidate placement – according to research more than a third of workers plan to change roles this year – recruitment companies need to…
Not getting the best out of your recruitment activity? Perhaps predictably, it could be for a number of reasons, some of which may be beyond your control. Lack of time and resources is an all-too-familiar challenge for many in-house recruiters, whilst some roles are simply very difficult to fill. But there are some elements of your recruitment…
In order to attract the top talent to your job openings, you’re going to have to convince them that your organization is a great place to work and the role is perfect for them. But how can you go about doing this? It takes more than a well-worded job description to persuade some of the…