Just like the rise of social media, the recruitment industry has also evolved from platform to platform. One of the latest discussions online is the relevance and the use of Facebook’s Graph Search as a recruitment tool. This article will take a look at Facebook’s users, Facebook as an alternative to LinkedIn and some statistics…
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If you haven’t heard about or seen the #VineResume by Dawn Siff in the last 8 months then you have been in a black hole. She produced the world’s first 6 second video CV using the popular Vine app. It went viral and was being reported on everywhere: As much as this was a great…
One of the worst kept secrets in recruitment is there are still plenty of employers who are not very keen on hiring disabled people for a particular job opportunity in their organization. At times, well-qualified and deserving candidates are ignored for less-deserving candidates that are not suffering from any disability. At the other end of…
René Bolier finds sourcers sexy – much sexier than the average recruiter. Find out why in his slideshow below. He likes that sourcers share – as they believe it will gain more than keeping it to themselves. Sourcers are nerds – and nerd is the new sexy! Sourcers are charming. What’s your opinion on sourcers?…
Ho ho ho! It is that time of year again where blogs all over are being written to reflect the seasonal mood out there. Lots of reflections over the year, in fact, this blog almost became a look back over 2013 – how it compared to what I had planned back on Jan 1st 2013 and…
There’s a lot of articles and infographics from LinkedIn on buzzwords that users should avoid using on their profiles – but which words should recruiters steer clear of? This infographic by LinkedIn gives a quick run-down of the most overused buzzwords by recruiters – to ensure they stick out from the crowd. Takeaways: Responsible is used…
I remember receiving a call from a client that I had worked closely with, building their IT team from a single member to a fully functional team. One of the first developers I had placed with them, an extremely talented guy (we’ll call him Bob for the sake of argument), had handed in his notice…
Glassdoor has released their sixth annual Employees’ Choice Awards for 2014, honouring the 50 Best Places to Work. You can see the results in the chart below. Winners were determined by the people who know these companies best — their employees through reviews on the Glassdoor website. Takeaways: In 2013, Facebook was number 1. This…
One of the most common reasons given for non-acceptance of job offers in modern-day hiring and recruitment is undoubtedly the classic counter offer scenario. A counter offer is whereby a candidate is incentivized to stay with his or her present employer after he or she has announced their intention to take a job with another company. This usually…