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5 Ways to Recruit on Instagram

Instagram is an iPhone (and now also Android) application which allows users to take pictures, add filters and then share these edited photographs to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more, all through one application. In April this year, it was bought by social media giant Facebook for £1billion, and boasts well over 50 million users, with…

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Talent Acquisition

Why YouTube is Essential for Social Recruiting

Do you recruit with social media? Did you include YouTube in that equation? You probably should! Here are some stats from our friends at HireRabbit: YouTube is the 3rd most trafficked website in the world, trailing only Google and Facebook according to Alexa. YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine trailing only Google (which happens…

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Talent Acquisition

How Can You Help Me to Find the Best Candidate for Our Role?

I’m often asked by my clients, “How can you help me to find the best candidate for our role”? As a recruiter with more than 20 years experience, I will always tell them that there is only one sure way that I can guarantee to find the best available candidate in the market and that…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

Why Recruiters Should Be Using Google+

Google’s answer to Facebook recently announced 100 million users. While that’s still nowhere near Facebook’s one billion, it clearly has a lot to offer its users – especially those who use other Google services. Unlike Facebook, on Google Plus you can search for users very easily and it is becoming a contender to LinkedIn –…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Who Make the Best In-House Recruiters?

As regular readers of my blogs will know, I’m a former recruitment consultant. I crossed to the light side (or the dark side, depending on your viewpoint) many years ago. I wasn’t terribly good at it to be hones; I couldn’t sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. I was pretty…