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Talent Acquisition

How to Help Your Candidates Create a Resume for the 21st Century

Being a recruiter is a job that requires that you put a solid amount of work into preparing your candidates for the highly dynamic job market. In recent years, there has been a considerable shift which has affected each and every industry. Thus, new job positions are opening while others are slowly vanishing, and others…

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Talent Acquisition Workplace

OMG! Did You Really Use That as Your Profile Pic?

We all know that first impressions count. In business it is so important and in the world of social media platforms that first impression can cost you dearly if you get it wrong. There are many horror stories of people posting mad things to Facebook etc, but historically most have been more conservative with LinkedIn.…

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Talent Acquisition

Introducing Hire – Google’s New Recruiting Application

As competition for people continues to grow, attracting and retaining the cream of the crop talent has become everything to employers and recruiters. Your businesses depend on the best talent to drive it to its full capability. A few weeks back at the Google I/O conference the company formally announced its AI-based job search engine…

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Talent Acquisition

Recruitment Apprentices – Time to Get Involved

Employing apprentices is a new thing for the recruitment sector and I know that many will be asking, why bother, why not just employ graduates? And if I do employ apprentices won’t they be a lot of hassle? I hope to dispel those worries. It is a myth that all the best people go to…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Can Contact Between Groups Reduce Prejudice and Defeat Unconscious Bias?

Franklin Roosevelt was President, the Great Depression was raging, and Jean Harlow was the reigning queen of Hollywood – all this while the first serious studies of unconscious bias and prejudice began to emerge. In particular, much of the focus of this 1930’s research was on answering this central question: Can contact between groups reduce…