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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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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…

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Who is Winning the Social Media Talent War?

The talent war on social media is fierce – but which network is winning? This infographic (from Recruit Loop) has all the answers. Takeaways: Facebook has the biggest talent pool, with 1.06 billion active monthly users, whereas Twitter has 500 million and LinkedIn has 200 million. 89% of recruiters have made a hire through LinkedIn.…

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The Virtues and Dangers of Social Media in Recruitment

About a month ago, I wrote a blog about social media and employee rights in the workplace. When I showed it to one of my coworkers, she responded by saying, “YOU wrote a blog on social media?! I thought you were anti-social media?” For the record, I’m not anti-social media, but I admit I have…

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How Recruiters Can Use Twitter Keyword Targeting

“Keyword targeting” are the two keywords on everyone’s lips at the moment – this is of course in part to do with the fact that Twitter has only just recently launched their own keyword targeting marketing feature amid their own platform. The new feature poses exciting prospects for advertisers and marketers because it allows them…