Recruitment marketing has reached an apex of sorts. More than one person has mentioned the shift from search to predictive sourcing in the last few months and I happen to think they are right on the money. Today large companies are focusing their talent acquisition budgets in content marketing, and candidate research and nurturing. That…
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Productivity in recruitment is totally linked to activity. Don’t fool yourself into thinking anything else. Yes, the quality of that activity is key, and whom you actually do that activity with is important too. But if you don’t do enough ‘stuff’, you will fail. Take that as gospel. So, it is to maintain a pipeline…
There are many terms for it in the corporate recruiting world: data mining, identity research, online screening or social recruiting. No matter the term, more than 90 percent of employers say they use social media to find employees. For most employers, this online screening is an important part of their due diligence – using public information posted by the…
Love it or loathe it, networking is a powerful way of learning, giving and relating to others. However sometimes people feel they just don’t know where to start. So here are ten top tips on ways that you can power up your networking skills: Know who you know – professionals would call this a database…
A client of mine is currently ramping up their direct hire efforts on a global basis, using LinkedIn and other online tools to identify and approach suitable candidates. Some of these will be actively looking for a job, but most will be what we refer to as passive talent. There is nothing wrong with networking…
I train a lot of recruiters in how to improve at researching on the Internet. I constantly learn more about how to do this better. By far the most popular topics for training are Google Basics and Getting more out of LinkedIn. This training can look radically different for different groups of people, depending on…
Recently, the Social Jobs Partnership launched its free ‘Social Jobs’ application on Facebook – listing more than 1.7 million open jobs. This infographic from Work4Labs tells you everything you need to know about the new job board, including what it means for recruiters and how to get your jobs in front of the world’s largest…
Here are a few interesting tips on what NOT to say to your client. As an ex-recruiter I’ve spotted that most of these apply perfectly to the world of recruitment so thought I’d share Open Forum‘s infographic here. The 5 things in a nutshell: Getting a company’s name wrong, whether it’s in a meeting or just…
Sending an email newsletter is an art which will never be easy to perfect – there are so many factors which act against the senders. Here’s an infographic by GetResponse spelling out how to get the best open rates for emails – and the best times to send them. Takeaways: 23.63% of all email opens…