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…
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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…
Just in case you were thinking of recruiting in China, and doing it via social media, we’ve got the infographic for you today. Our friends at Maximum have put together stats from a big social recruiting survey in China. Top websites in China (how many have you heard of?): Baidu QQ Taobao Sina Google Weibo…
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…
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…