Recruiting top talent has always been a challenge. But with new social recruiting tactics, many companies are turning to online communities and platforms to source candidates quicker and easier. What is the best advantage social recruiting has over traditional recruiting? 1. Making Human Resources Human Again, Digitally: Social recruiting has a major advantage over traditional…
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One of the most modern elements of the hiring and recruitment process is video interviewing. It is easier to organise, cuts costs and allows for re-evaluation later on. This infographic from Spark Hire shows some of the benefits of video interviewing and it’s recent rise. Takeaways: Traditional hiring methods take 45 days on average to hire…
Every profession has horror stories to tell. Why these tales exist beggars the belief of the majority of genuine professionals searching for roles or working in recruitment. However there will always be a small minority who feel permitted to behave in a completely unprofessional manner and as though the world owes them some kind of…
Well, this blog won’t make me popular with recruitment agencies, but that isn’t really anything new. Fellow Undercover Recruiter blogger Robert Wright wrote a blog recently about how recruitment agencies can survive the move towards in-house direct hire models, so I thought I would upset him too and tell you how my organisation has saved…
Social sharing is an art – it needs to be done just right for something to go viral and for the hits to start rolling in. This infographic from Venturebeat and Compendium explains what works for social sharing. Takeaways: The social media message needs to be the ideal length – for B2B on LinkedIn ideal length is 16-25…
We’ve all faced those times when we meet new people at things like parties, community events or business trips and we do the ritual sounding out of what each of us does for a living. Do we do this to find common ground, find a beachhead on which to build small talk to fill the…
Perhaps you are a business developer… or simply a networker… Do you use Twitter to find stuff or do you just bleet?? Do you want to be able to find people to do business with or research what your competitors are up to? Here’s one tip for you to help with this. Find prospects on Twitter You…
TalentBin, founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, describes themselves as finding “all the wonderful things candidates do across the entire social web”, then combining them all together into a “one-stop search stop for talent pros to find candidates and reach out”. TalentBin takes information from people’s Facebook profiles, Twitter profiles and LinkedIn profiles…
As a recruiter, what type of content should you be putting out online? And what is your company doing to create interesting content for your target audience? Great content leads to a stronger brand online, both your personal brand as a recruiter and your company’s brand as an agency/employer. As our friends at CopyBlogger write:…