You’ve read the case studies, seen the presentations and even your dog has been approached by a recruiter on LinkedIn. You’re convinced. Social recruiting is the holy grail of talent acquisition. But how on earth do you start? Our friends at Dice have created a useful starter kit for companies looking to move into the…
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Struggling to attract the right talent? The Employer Brand Index can help you to understand strengths and weaknesses of your company as an employer.
The term ‘social selling’ has been doing the rounds for a while now on the interwebs, at conferences and in countless webinars. What does it actually mean? Here’s a definition by Hubspot: Social selling is when salespeople use social media to interact directly with their prospects. Salespeople will provide value by answering prospect questions and…
Last week over 180 in-house recruiters gathered for the Talent Leaders Connect event in London. Acting as a forerunner to the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), an organisation’s candidate experience (or lack of) was hotly debated among some of the recruitment industry’s leading professionals. The line-up included Global HRD and author Peter Wright; Forward Partners’ Matt Buckland, who recently…
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of…
This year has already been dubbed the ‘Year of the Candidate’, as growing economic confidence is shifting the power from the employer to the employee. After years of economic uncertainty which encouraged employees to stay in the same job and prompted employers to be cautious about making investments in new staff, the continued positive news is…