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8 Essential Interview Tips by a Recruiter

As a recruitment company, we feel we can offer job seekers some well needed insight into the mind-set of recruiters and our decision making processes. We see so many worthy candidates that we have to trust our instincts when it comes to choosing the cream of the crop. So here are the ways to make…

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Who Are You? You Recruiters Know Nothing!

As a recruiter you have so much to think about:  advertising jobs, sourcing candidates, competing not just with you traditional competitors, but with your clients and candidates – everything’s online now and everyone has access to what you have access to.  How do you differentiate yourself?  How can you make yourself stand out?  Heads are…

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What are the Average Salaries of UK Graduate Jobs?

Once graduates leave university, it is extremely difficult for them to find jobs. Here are the true facts behind graduate employment, courtesy of Walton Robinson. Takeaways: Medicine and dentistry courses have the highest graduate employment rate – 92%, compared with 89% for education graduates. Computer science has the highest graduate unemployment rate – 13% – alongside creative…

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How to Use Yammer for Your Recruitment Team

I did some training with our in-house recruitment team yesterday on what to do with social media in their roles – they’d spent the day with LinkedIn getting trained on the basics of setting up an account and bits and bobs like that. By the time I got to them they had that glazed look…

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How to Dazzle Recruiters with Your Social Media Profiles

Today, 92% of companies use LinkedIn, Facebook and/or Twitter for recruiting, which makes social networking essential when job hunting. Here’s what you need to know about creating a positive impression to help get you hired, courtesy of Jobvite. Takeaways: Almost all (86%) recruiters will check your social media profiles Recruiters don’t like seeing you consuming…