The CV is now a very old fashioned way of understanding what personality and talents a candidate has – nowadays it’s all about Twitter feeds, Instagram photos and Pinterest boards. Pinterest boasts over 12 million users and (according to RJMetrics) is retaining and engaging users as much as 2 to 3 times as efficiently as…
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I wrote a blog recently in which I talked about the success of our direct hire model (How In-House Recruiting Can Save You 200k on Agency Fees). As I said quite a lot about how easy it is to do and how much money you can save, I thought I should follow it up with some…
As a small business owner, managing your time and expectations is extremely important if you want to maintain the proper focus. I struggle with this issue and can be easily distracted by a phone call or a tendency to check my emails more often than is probably needed. Time management is one of those skills…
The position of the recruitment consultant has changed drastically over the last four decades. Here are the changes in terms of movies, courtesy of RecruitLoop. Takeaways: 1980s – Top Gun – hiring computer and network technicians 1990s – Pulp Fiction – hiring system analysts and computer programmers and engineers 2o00s – Minority Report – hiring…
This year, Link Humans partnered with LinkedIn to run the ‘Profile Makeover’ booth at the annual Talent Connect Europe 2012 event. The three of us (Laurence, Jorgen and Laurent over from Paris especially), had over a hundred people coming for profile makeovers, including some of the keynote speakers. Almost all of our attendees were part of…
My wife, Senda, is an amazing woman. Hey, she’d have to be to put up with my nonsense. Today though, she said something to me that showed that not only had she been married to me for a long time, not only does she know me so well, but she is the wife of a…
n 23 October we partnered up with LinkedIn to man their Profile Makeover booth at the annual Talent Connect conference in London. The three of us (Laurence, Jorgen and Laurent over from Paris especially), had over a hundred people coming for profile makeovers, including some of the keynote speakers. Almost all of our attendees were…
There are a lot of CVs on the Internet. At the Talent Sourcing Conference, held at Monster HQ in August, we heard that Monster alone have 10 million UK CVs in their database. There are millions more on other generalist and niche job boards too. Many people also upload their CVs to the public web…
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How to Recruit Hidden Talent
In today’s world of serial applicants, recruiters are having trouble finding top talent. Most recruitment processes are costly and ineffective. Hiring managers are bogged down by unqualified applicants and an excess of resumes. In fact, Bradford Smart, president of the recruiting firm Smart & Associates, says that only 25 percent of hires are considered top performers.…