This is one of my favourite topics. I believe this is what will differentiate the winners from the losers in recruitment. In the end, a recruiter is as good as the number of candidates that she or he can close. That is it. So what recruiters are going to need in the next 3 years,…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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With the wide adoption of social media over the last couple of years, the conversation has evolved away from “Why use social media?” to “How do you use social media?”. A simple Google search for “social media etiquette” brings up 1,580,000 results. But do we really need all of those articles to tell us how…
In the war for talent, which will make more candidates apply – a career website or a talent community? This infographic, from Ascendify, gives all the answers. Takeaways: 10% of people apply via career sites compared to 90% who join talent communities. Career websites are static, impersonal and complicated, whereas job communities are active, engaging…
Major career changes bring many emotions to the front. Trepidation, excitement and, at least for me, that exciting feeling you’d get in September before you started a new school year. In fact, taking it a step further, it is like starting in school after you made a move to a new district. You get a…
If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of months, the news of the Tesco horsemeat scandal may have passed you by. If not, then you’re aware that a large number of FMCG retailers have been suffering supply chain issues where horsemeat has been found in beef products. Although this is a…
LinkedIn UK have compiled a top 10 ‘power user’ list of the most engaged UK women in the recruiting industry on the world’s largest professional network. The power user list, which includes professionals from across the UK and from a mixture of large and small recruiting agencies as well as large organisations such as the BBC…
As a Rec2Rec, one of the most commonly talked about subjects is whether a recruiter can cross over from one sector or discipline into another. Having done this myself on three occasions (I started out in white collar perm engineering then moved into a new desk for advertising agencies, before setting up a R2R desk)…
Our friends at HerdWisdom have come up with the secret recruiting formula to getting the best candidates to see your job postings. Takeaways You need to use job boards, search ads and social media to receive an influx of qualified candidates. 226,000,000 searches per month on Google contain the word ‘job’. Indeed gets 100,000,000 unique…
This infographic, from Jobsite shows how mobile became very popular in 2012 and is expected to increase. Have you used mobile to recruit someone? Let us know in the comments! Takeaways: Nearly one third of job seekers want mobile versions of job boards. 40% of Jobsite’s traffic is from Apple mobile devices. In Feb 2010, only…