If there was only one theme dominating recruitment in 2015 it would certainly be this: inundation. The old database model and conventional job boards are colliding with the social media explosion more than ever, leaving recruiters drowning in a mass of information that is hard to effectively track and aggregate. The tentacles of the sprawling social media landscape…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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Twitter is a useful channel for recruiters, employers and talent to interact on an informal and real-time basis. Plenty of large companies tweet job openings, but how can you make sure you reach the right people? One way is of course advertising. How do you advertise on Twitter with the best results? I recently had a chat…
We change our CVs daily to adapt to the certain jobs that we apply for. However, we often lose sight of what is happening with other people’s CVs and are not particularly well informed about CV statistics in general. Who are our CVs up against? How many CVs get turned in for one job? It is…
I have often wondered whether success in recruitment is ascertained through nature or nurture; is there a definitive set of “recruitment genes”? As a parent to two daughters, I often chat to them after school about their aspirations and future career choices. They are only 10 and 7, however they have already noted possible career…
Every day we leave online hints of what we do, how we do it, who we do it with, and what we might do next. This is why the technology mapping our social & professional lives is more valuable than ever. The social graph is a representation of the interconnection of relationships in an online…