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Talent Acquisition

The Do’s and Don’ts of LinkedIn Etiquette

With the wide adoption of social media over the last couple of years, the conversation has evolved away from “Why use social media?” to “How do you use social media?”.  A simple Google search for “social media etiquette” brings up 1,580,000 results. But do we really need all of those articles to tell us how…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Talent Communities vs. Career Websites: A Side by Side Comparison

In the war for talent, which will make more candidates apply – a career website or a talent community? This infographic, from Ascendify, gives all the answers. Takeaways: 10% of people apply via career sites compared to 90% who join talent communities. Career websites are static, impersonal and complicated, whereas job communities are active, engaging…

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Talent Acquisition Workplace

Rich with Irony (and Some Cash)

Major career changes bring many emotions to the front. Trepidation, excitement and, at least for me, that exciting feeling you’d get in September before you started a new school year. In fact, taking it a step further, it is like starting in school after you made a move to a new district. You get a…

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Talent Acquisition

Why Competing on Price is Bad – For Everyone!

If you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last couple of months, the news of the Tesco horsemeat scandal may have passed you by. If not, then you’re aware that a large number of FMCG retailers have been suffering supply chain issues where horsemeat has been found in beef products. Although this is a…

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Talent Acquisition

The Most Engaged UK Recruitment Women on LinkedIn

LinkedIn UK have compiled a top 10 ‘power user’  list of the most engaged UK women in the recruiting industry on the world’s largest professional network. The power user list, which includes professionals from across the UK and from a mixture of large and small recruiting agencies as well as large organisations such as the BBC…