A little while ago, there was a lot of chatter in the blogosphere when the CEO of Klout, a social media analytical tool which attempts to measure ‘influence’, tweeted a Salesforce job post that required a Klout score of 35 or above. This kicked off a debate about whether a Klout score is a useful…
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LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional social network and a fantastic place to find a job or to recruit. Here are the facts and figures you need to know, courtesy of Website Monitoring. Takeaways: LinkedIn has 187,000,000 members in 200 territories – with 2 members signing up every second. There are over 1,000,000 LinkedIn groups…
In this video, I give you 5 simple steps to get more retweets on Twitter – they aren’t guaranteed, but may help boost your reach! All stats come courtesy of Quicksprout: Ask for a Retweet – have a job you need to reach a wide audience? Ask people to retweet the tweet! Tweet Links –…
With the holidays approaching, as well as being a fantastic time to pick up the right candidate for your position – it’s also necessary to find out whether your applicants would end up on Santa’s Naughty or Nice list! This infographic/test from Spark Hire will help you. Tally up your score and let us know…
LinkedIn has compiled a list of the top 10 overused buzzwords on their profiles, and when compared to last year’s report – it shows some interesting results. At the end of 2011, LinkedIn was home to 135 million members. Now, this number has reached over 187 million worldwide (with over 10 million in the UK alone),…
‘Tis the season for traditions and to start some new traditions. I once took the reins of an HR Leader job where my predecessor banned all Christmas trees. She did not believe in Christmas, which is totally cool with me, but pissed off 98% (about 790 people) of our workforce with her beliefs. Every employee…
Recently, the Social Jobs Partnership launched its free ‘Social Jobs’ application on Facebook – listing more than 1.7 million open jobs. This infographic from Work4Labs tells you everything you need to know about the new job board, including what it means for recruiters and how to get your jobs in front of the world’s largest…
I recently had a chat with our great buddy Tim Tyrell-Smith, something I like to do on a regular basis (see our previous chat here). Tim is an author, blogger, speaker, coach and consultant in the job search, career and marketing space. He is one of the most genuine and credible guys out there and…
Recently, Instagram announced the arrival of web profiles and started rolling them out to all users. The profiles, with a Facebook Timeline type design, are a great way to brand yourself or your company, and with any social network page you own on the internet, it is important to get all the components right to…