For many recruiters LinkedIn is their go to resource for finding top talent to fill their roles and likewise do job seekers use their LinkedIn profiles as a means of promoting themselves as potential candidates and to make professional contacts. But how exactly do you go about locating these individuals? There are 332,000,000 million people…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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Video is becoming increasingly popular, especially through platforms such an Instagram, Vine and Twitter Video. With this in mind, it is important to always be innovative when thinking of ways to showcase recruitment. Making a recruitment video is a good way to show you are creative and is easier than most people think. Many assume you must…
Whether you represent an employer or a recruitment company, the same challenge exists with attracting talent: How exactly do you build and retain an audience online? You should of course create compelling content, not just about specific jobs but about your company culture and beyond. I recently had a chat about audience building with Jeff Rohrs, VP, Marketing Insights…
LinkedIn is a great tool for keeping in touch with useful contacts you make throughout your career and even for making new connections who may be able to assist you along the way, so therefore it is important that you give off a good impression when using the network. Saying this, people will always cut…
The performance findings for major global recruiting companies on Facebook, has been released for 2014 by The Social Recruitment Monitor created by Maximum EMG. The top 10 list of recruiting companies has been formed, using the average SRM index scores over the last year. This identifies the best performing companies by social media channel. The top…
Recruiters! Stop getting off on your back door chasing! Picture this. It’s a dusty street. Three figures are in the shot. A scruffy dog runs stage left to right, weeds tumble through the dirt. Recruiting is a Spaghetti Western! Close up (You’re a recruiter.) You’re wearing a poncho, you have a cigar in your mouth, a single-round…
Recruitment is changing and it’s time to tailor your recruitment strategy for what the candidates want and will really capture their attention. Unfortunately candidates don’t particularly care about your brand and are more concerned about what you can DO for them. The biggest contributing factor to the perception that a candidate builds about your company is what your…
Time and time again, we are reminded that “short and concise” is the best. When it comes to writing about yourself, you have no idea where to start and where to end. Add that to the fact that it has to be professional, personal, catchy, concrete, error-free, unique…okay, I’ll stop now. Relax! It is possible!…
How do you get going with your social selling activities on LinkedIn? Whether you’re doing business development for a staffing agency, selling yourself to your next employer or looking for sponsors for an event there’s no denying LinkedIn is the place to start. Our friends at LinkedIn Sales Solutions (the good people that bring you the Sales Navigator) have…