Having a professional presence on social media is important for college students and graduates. Why? This infographic (courtesy of Tribe) shows why. Takeaways: 37% of employers use Facebook to pre-screen applicants. 86% of recruiters are likely to look at social media profiles. On Facebook, keep your personal information private, and have a professional profile picture. Tweets…
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Having recently moved over to do more of a recruitment marketing role, I can’t help but wonder when recruiter’s roles became more marketing and less sales. Clearly we’ve always had to do marketing in some sense of the term with our primary job being to market or sell candidates and companies. However in 2013, it’s…
As an active LinkedIn networker, blogger and trainer, I receive lots of LinkedIn questions every day. This week, there seemed to be a common theme – LinkedIn Invitations. Many interesting questions crossed my desk, so I thought I’d compile them all in one place and share my answers with you. Have a question about LinkedIn…
So, I had an article already to post, all about why “Hard Closes” never work. Then, as is the nature of our business and life in general, things change… I haven’t been able to get some thoughts out of my brain as I watched situations unfold. I said maybe writing about it for The Undercover…
This infographic (created by Jobvite) shows why usability is the most crucial factor for running a good applicant tracking system and gaining a great ROI. Which ATS has given you the best ROI? Takeaways: 40% of companies fail to provide straight forward navigation during the application process. 25% of companies don’t attempt to integrate the…