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Where Do Recruiters Go to Find Talent?

If you want to get found by recruiters then you need to understand how they think! Bullhorn Reach released their 2013 North American Social Recruiting Activity Report and this information should help you understand how to improve your job search: Who Is Bullhorn Reach? In case you haven’t heard or seen this name before, Bullhorn Reach…

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How to Stimulate Innovation in Recruitment

There was a wonderful piece in the satirical news site The Onion recently about the recent SXSW conference in the USA. The piece claimed that the word “innovation” had already been said 650,000 times, and drily noted the complete absence of phrases such as “investment model” and “practical business strategy“. When people think of innovation,…

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Recruitment: Is Age Really a Problem?

As I write this blog, I am days away from my 3*th birthday (I am NOT going to reveal my age obviously, but let’s just say, I am staring 40 down the barrel!) and yet most days, I genuinely don’t feel any different to how I did when I was 28, bar a few more…

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Is Recruitment Stuck with Old-School Thinking?

This blog has been inspired by two sources that I’ve encountered in the last two weeks… The first is that I’ve recently seen a few online discussions and blogs questioning the need for commission structures in recruitment and the impact they may have on encouraging consultants to focus more on achieving a profitable “sale” and…

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NEWSFLASH: A LinkedIn Company Page is STILL More Important Than a Website

I’ve blogged a bit about this recently – perhaps I was slightly psychic with my blog last year Why your company page is more important than your website (2.5k shares and counting)! However, I didn’t know that LinkedIn were going to… …hide your website within your Contact Info button! They clearly are trying to keep…

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Recruiters: Red Flags to Watch Out For

Whether you’re looking for a job or in charge of filling a position, there are a few key red flags to be aware of. The economy is still recovering, which means you either have a lot of competition to deal with or a lot of resumes to sift through. Only a select few will make…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

Are We Living in a Digital Recruitment Social Age?

Has recruitment really embraced the social age to its full potential? This infographic (from evenbase) shows that the recruitment industry is in transition. Takeaways: 2 out of 5 hires made by in-house recruiters in Australia came from job boards. In France, only 13% of hires are made through social networks, despite 91% of recruiters saying…

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Sourcing Evolution: From Recruiter to Sourcing Talent Manager

I was recently on a great webinar by Jobvite entitled: “The Art & Science of Sourcing: A Virtual Round Table“. One of the discussion points was focused on the role of the recruiter versus a dedicated sourcing consultant and/or researcher. With a number of different perspective there were some great take away lessons. The sourcing gurus and contributors…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

How to Find Candidates’ Social Networks Simply By Using Their Profile Picture

Have you ever wondered what the easiest way is to find out the other social profiles for a specific candidate? Need to learn more about a candidate by reading their Twitter feed? Would you like to see where they check in on a regular basis via Foursquare? There are plenty of plugins that can aggregate…