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Talent Acquisition

How to Ensure Your Vacation Does Not Cost You Placements

Productivity in recruitment is totally linked to activity. Don’t fool yourself into thinking anything else. Yes, the quality of that activity is key, and whom you actually do that activity with is important too. But if you don’t do enough ‘stuff’, you will fail. Take that as gospel. So, it is to maintain a pipeline…

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7 Ways to Screen Potential Candidates Online

There are many terms for it in the corporate recruiting world: data mining, identity research, online screening or social recruiting. No matter the term, more than 90 percent of employers say they use social media to find employees. For most employers, this online screening is an important part of their due diligence – using public information posted by the…

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10 Ways to Power Up Your Networking Skills

Love it or loathe it, networking is a powerful way of learning, giving and relating to others. However sometimes people feel they just don’t know where to start. So here are ten top tips on ways that you can power up your networking skills: Know who you know – professionals would call this a database…

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How to Rule Passive Candidates In or Out

A client of mine is currently ramping up their direct hire efforts on a global basis, using LinkedIn and other online tools to identify and approach suitable candidates. Some of these will be actively looking for a job, but most will be what we refer to as passive talent. There is nothing wrong with networking…

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How to Improve at Online Sourcing

I train a lot of recruiters in how to improve at researching on the Internet. I constantly learn more about how to do this better. By far the most popular topics for training are Google Basics and Getting more out of LinkedIn. This training can look radically different for different groups of people, depending on…