You’ve spotted a brilliant-looking job online. Great location, great salary, interesting role. All aflutter, you upload your CV, hit send, and sit back, dreaming of the interview you know you’ll get (and ace), almost tasting that offer letter brimming with a massive salary hike. A week goes by. Two weeks. Three weeks. A month. You…
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I’ve been a recruiter for fourteen years and entered the industry fairly fresh from graduation; first taking on a temp desk, then contingent perm recruitment and team leadership and for the last six years headhunting on a retained basis. During this time I’ve experienced a great deal of good and bad recruitment training provided by…
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5 Ways to Recruit on Instagram
Instagram is an iPhone (and now also Android) application which allows users to take pictures, add filters and then share these edited photographs to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more, all through one application. In April this year, it was bought by social media giant Facebook for £1billion, and boasts well over 50 million users, with…
Do you recruit with social media? Did you include YouTube in that equation? You probably should! Here are some stats from our friends at HireRabbit: YouTube is the 3rd most trafficked website in the world, trailing only Google and Facebook according to Alexa. YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine trailing only Google (which happens…
I’m often asked by my clients, “How can you help me to find the best candidate for our role”? As a recruiter with more than 20 years experience, I will always tell them that there is only one sure way that I can guarantee to find the best available candidate in the market and that…
Google’s answer to Facebook recently announced 100 million users. While that’s still nowhere near Facebook’s one billion, it clearly has a lot to offer its users – especially those who use other Google services. Unlike Facebook, on Google Plus you can search for users very easily and it is becoming a contender to LinkedIn –…
As regular readers of my blogs will know, I’m a former recruitment consultant. I crossed to the light side (or the dark side, depending on your viewpoint) many years ago. I wasn’t terribly good at it to be hones; I couldn’t sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. I was pretty…
As part of the Ask the Expert panel over at the Institute of Recruiters, I got a question about social media and recruitment agencies which I thought I’d share here on the blog. Question: I am trying to introduce the features and benefits of various Social Networks to our Consultants. The two biggest areas for…
I think my phone is broken…. It’s strange to think how much recruitment has changed since I first started. I remember my early days in recruitment – we were literally told to ‘hammer the phone’. We would make hundreds of calls per day, and at one point we even had software installed that monitored the…