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The Future of Tech Recruitment: Sourcing, Hiring and Retaining Top Talent

This post is sponsored by Technically Compatible.  Times have changed. We humans have never been more connected, and yet, never been more closed off. The dawn of technology has opened endless avenues to reach candidates and for a time made all our lives easier. Now, however, the information age has turned into the information overload…

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3 Chrome Plugins To Accelerate Your Talent Sourcing

Despite the advancement of technology with the invasion of AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, hiring is still pretty much a painful process for many. You start off confidently with a vacancy handed down from your hiring managers, thinking it would be a walk in the park. A job ad goes here, a social post there…

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The Expert’s Guide to Influence and Persuasion

How do you define ‘marketing’? The dictionary says it’s: “the action or business of promoting and selling products or services, including market research and advertising”. A successful marketer goes beyond that; influencing, persuading and gently nudging people to digest something in a certain way. Let me introduce you to Dr. Robert Cialdini (if you haven’t already heard of…

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The 11 Stages of a Business Trip

If you’re lucky, at some point in your career you’ll be able to go onto a business trip – and these can be extremely good fun. However, as with anything, there are different stages you go through with each trip. Here’s my breakdown of the 11 major parts: 1) Packing: The first element of preparing…

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How to Be Every Client’s Preferred Recruiter

As a recruiter proactively targeting new business, I’m sure you can relate to the frustration of spending hours on the phone, finally getting through to the right point of contact, then being told that they get hundreds of calls “just like this” and politely (sometimes not so politely) being shunned off. Or maybe you feel like…