LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. According to Forbes, it is in direct competition with traditional recruiting agencies and a lot of people will turn to the platform as their first point of call when seeking a new career opportunity. This social network site allows members to share their experience, skills and past achievements on…
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Part of the job of a recruiter is to communicate sensitive information from one party to another, which often requires a great deal of trust amongst all those involved. Unfortunately, for legitimate recruiters trust with potential/ first time clients and candidates is often more difficult to establish than for other service providers, due to a general mistrust of…
Recruiting is a very competitive industry. Writing a good job description is a fundamental step toward attracting the right candidates to applying for one of your job postings, by communicating clearly what kind of individual you are after and what responsibilities and tasks the job entails. Here are some tips on how to write a good…
This article is sponsored by Shortlister. It’s graduate season again and every large employer in the country is fighting for their slice of the top graduate talent pie, but what are the best in the graduate recruitment business doing to secure the highest possible quality of grad? Josh Mills of Shortlister.com caught up with Phillip Haig,…
Too often, executives think about recruiting in terms of making specific individual hires or filling a certain number of open positions. But, the truth is, smart recruiting is not just about hiring that exclusive individual or choosing the best candidate for that one available position – recruiting is about building the capacity of the overall team. You don’t…
The simple truth is that our control over our consciousness determines the quality of our lives as well as our ability to reach our full potential. People who have developed the right mental disciplines make more money, stretch their abilities more than their peers, enjoy higher positions at work, command more respect and form more…
When you hire a new employee, you’re not just agreeing to pay them a salary. There’s recruiting costs, training, benefit packages, equipment, and more than have to be factored into the equation. Recruiting: Recruiting is one of the more obvious costs that gets overlooked because it’s not an ongoing cost. You only incur it when you’re looking…
In this digital era, the internet plays a very important role in recruiting new staff. Online tools that were once a secret weapon of big recruitment firms are now available to anyone at a very affordable price or even free. A full recruitment cycle basically contains three main phrases: sourcing, selection, and retention. Below are…
As a recruiting or staffing agency, you will have plenty of website visitors (potential new clients) that take a look at 2-3 of your pages and then vanish never to come back again. How can we make these people take action and sign up for your newsletter, a download or simply get in touch? I recently had…