Today, employee referrals are the most useful way of finding the best candidates for the job. Here is how valuable a referral truly is, courtesy of Jobvite. Takeaways: The average employee will have 150 contacts on social media networks – 100 employees means around 15,000 contacts (and possible candidates). Employee referrals have the highest applicant…
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Recruitment technology has changed extensively since the early days, and with the birth of social media it’s become a lot more interactive. Here are some of the main points of its history, courtesy of TalentBin. Takeaways: In the pre-computer era, jobs were found via bulletin boards and newspapers, whereas passive candidates were found via resume…
As a recruitment company, we feel we can offer job seekers some well needed insight into the mind-set of recruiters and our decision making processes. We see so many worthy candidates that we have to trust our instincts when it comes to choosing the cream of the crop. So here are the ways to make…
As a recruiter you have so much to think about: advertising jobs, sourcing candidates, competing not just with you traditional competitors, but with your clients and candidates – everything’s online now and everyone has access to what you have access to. How do you differentiate yourself? How can you make yourself stand out? Heads are…
Once graduates leave university, it is extremely difficult for them to find jobs. Here are the true facts behind graduate employment, courtesy of Walton Robinson. Takeaways: Medicine and dentistry courses have the highest graduate employment rate – 92%, compared with 89% for education graduates. Computer science has the highest graduate unemployment rate – 13% – alongside creative…
I did some training with our in-house recruitment team yesterday on what to do with social media in their roles – they’d spent the day with LinkedIn getting trained on the basics of setting up an account and bits and bobs like that. By the time I got to them they had that glazed look…
Today, 92% of companies use LinkedIn, Facebook and/or Twitter for recruiting, which makes social networking essential when job hunting. Here’s what you need to know about creating a positive impression to help get you hired, courtesy of Jobvite. Takeaways: Almost all (86%) recruiters will check your social media profiles Recruiters don’t like seeing you consuming…
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To RPO or Not to RPO?
To RPO or not to RPO? (Recruitment Process Outsourcing that means of course.) Frankly, that headline scans better when I’m writing about TUPE, but I’ll leave that for my ER blog. About three years ago, I headed back into the world of recruitment. The recruitment team at the organisation in question was outsourced and the…
At a recent conference, I attended a session led by Rob Gee, a leading management consultant who specialises in leadership, motivation, internal structures and training programmes. He is passionate about business psychology, and specifically how our understanding of it can help us develop individually in the work place – on a personal basis and a…