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Talent Acquisition

Your Cheat Sheet to the Best Practices in Social Recruiting

Social recruiting gives recruiters a human face, letting you engage with candidates in direction conversation and attract talent that is well-matched to your business. Feel like you need to know the ways of social recruitment? This infographic from our good friends at Herd Wisdom is a cheat sheet for the best practices. Takeaways: Why? 20% of…

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Hiring Managers: Don’t Try to Find the Perfect Employee!

Too often hiring managers spend months attempting to find the perfect employee, which is next to impossible. Instead, they should be focusing on finding people who will do both a good job and work well inside of their businesses. Unfortunately, most businesses approach hiring the wrong way and are either left with a lot of…

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Recruiters: Don’t Expect a Return on Investment from LinkedIn!

I am a massive fan of Return of Investment (ROI) when using social media, and I’m not talking about silly “like”, “follower”, ”share” metrics. I get why marketers think these are important (I know they are), but the majority of my agency recruitment clients want £$€ stats. Do you know how much LinkedIn is worth to you?…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How Employer Branding and Recruitment Fell in Love

Reality check! Are you aware that recruiting has changed? Gone are the days of “Post and Pray”: where you post a job listing and wait for the swarm of candidates to come a runnin’. Today’s recruiters have bigger, better technology but we also have a veritable firehose of candidates to deal with. The baby boomers…

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The Evolution of Finding Candidates

This infographic (from Hireology) shows the evolution of finding candidates. Takeaways: The first employee referral program took place in 49BC. Before World War II, there were 12 million women in the workforce, after there were 18 million. The number 1 source of hires in 2012 was the internet. RELATED: The Evolution of Social Recruitment

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Recruiting the Beautiful People (Only!)

Question – what would happen if the recruiting industry began holding itself to the same standards as the fashion or music industries? Answer – meet BeautifulPeople.com Recruitment. For those who are not familiar with the site, BeautifulPeople.com allows its 750,000 members to post pictures of themselves, while others can vote on whether or not they…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition Timebound Workplace

Which is the Best Employer Review Site? [Glassdoor vs the Others]

The vast majority of internet users today rely on peer-review sites before making a purchase. From books to restaurants, hotels and even airplane seats, users happily rely on online services to aid them in making informed choices. Sites such as Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor and eBay have made online reviews the norm for savvy consumers everywhere.…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

How Did Unilever Reach 500,000 Followers on LinkedIn?

You can watch an interview with Paul Maxin, Global Resourcing Director of Unilever, where he talks about their social recruitment strategy. Takeaways: Unilever have over 500,000 followers on LinkedIn – making them the ninth most-liked company in the world. Their Facebook page has over 200,000 likes – aggregating fans from across the world. Unilever use…

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The Evolution of Social Recruitment

Everybody knows that the biggest advancements made in recruiting in the last decade have been those related to social media. Online platforms – most notably LinkedIn – have played huge roles in the way we communicate with and attract our candidates, and sometimes clients too. There has been a complete role reversal between recruiters and…