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13 Interview Questions You Should Be Asking Finance Candidates

Looking for better finance hires? Well, it may be time to send your trusty interview questions back to the drawing board. If your interview process is lacking strategic thought, you’re likely to miss out on valuable insight — both positive and negative — on your finance candidates. This approach — or lack thereof — could…

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Why Your CV Database is a Giant Waste of Time

Here at Bubble, we offer clients everything they’d expect from a typical jobs board. From feature adverts and skyscraper banners to enhanced social media promotion, you can get it all at Bubble but there’s one thing you can’t get… and it’s something that really confuses (and annoys) a lot of our potential clients – we’re…

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Talent Acquisition

What is Your Alter-Ego Career?

Like so many of my generation of recruiters (god, I have just made myself sound ancient and I am only 3*something), I fell into recruitment in the 1990s – as opposed to by design (as is the case of many generation Y now because “it’s very lucrative” apparently). I often chat to my contacts, as I…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Why Candidate Experience Matters

Recruiters – you need to wake up! Candidate experience and especially satisfaction is crucial in the recruitment process. While there is still plenty of talk surrounding “The Candidate Experience” it becomes very easy to shy away from basic concepts in order to put more focus on your own personal gain or the gain of the…

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Talent Acquisition

Can You Learn to Love a Recruiter?

The word “Recruiter” generally stirs up lots of emotion and opinions in people – we are the people the professional world loves to hate! But can we recruiters actually be of value to you, the client? Can we become a trusted business partner? Personally, I expect that some clients will like us, and some won’t. That…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

3 Hiring Lessons from Back-to-School Season

As summer slowly morphs into fall, 26.9 percent of the population goes from worrying about sunburns to homework. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 79 million children and adults enrolled in school back in 2011 — which means, for a large proportion of the population, back-to-school season is upon us. Going back to…

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Talent Acquisition Workplace

What is the Best Facebook Career Page in Europe? [INFOGRAPHIC]

We here at Link Humans recently analysed the best Facebook Career pages in Europe – you can find the results below in an infographic. We hope this study will provide you with some inspiration for you to enhance your company page with better design or more relevant apps! Here is a comment by Charles Schmidt, Corporate…

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10 Reasons to Ditch Outlook and Excel for Recruitment

If your recruitment process relies on Outlook and Excel then you could be losing good candidates, and worse still, having a negative impact on your bottom line. As anyone recruiting with Outlook and Excel will know, providing a seamless and standardised recruitment process is difficult. And because of this, losing good candidates – and potentially their…

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Talent Acquisition

10 Typical Signs of Recruiter Behaviour on Social Media

Social Media in Recruitment, Social Recruitment, Social Recruiting, Online Recruitment, Digital Recruitment – all of these “skills” are a necessary part of every recruiter’s daily lives.  They are skills which mean that they start their day when they wake and check their phones, and are likely to still be “working” when they are in bed…