Earlier this month, New York City-based realtor firm Rapid Realty made headlines by offering their employees a 15 percent raise if they got a tattoo of the company logo. The company’s owner got the idea when a loyal employee decided to get the company logo tattoo without any incentive, and the owner felt indebted to…
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One of the most basic requirements when sourcing candidates is that they are based in an appropriate location for the role we are trying to fill. Recruiters already know that LinkedIn is a very powerful candidate sourcing tool, but do you know all the ways it can help you find candidates that are in the…
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The Age of Social Recruitment
This infographic from our friends at Glassdoor outlines how this age of recruitment is exceedingly social. Have you had experience of social recruiting? Let us know in the comments below. Takeaways: Men and women are equally as likely to use social media in finding a job as each other. 79% of people are likely to use…
I was having a chat with one of the truly awesome agency sales/recruiters I know. I mentioned her banter wasn’t up to par, and she replied with (and I copied this straight from our text, by the way): My banter is worn out from being on the phone with [name removed to protect the guilty]…
Mobile technology is huge: Between cell phones, tablets, and other devices, the U.S. now has a total of 435 million gadgets in our homes – which means devices outnumber its citizens. Not surprisingly, more than 70% of active job seekers use their mobile phones to look for jobs. Unfortunately, companies are struggling to keep up despite the enormous opportunity…
As in-house recruiters, we often have to recruit for a very wide variety of roles. These can range from entry level positions right up to board level management, and this is no different to the situation at Epsilon – we are a leading marketing technology services business, and not surprisingly a lot of our positions will be marketing technology…
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…
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,…
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…