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Which Social Recruiting Tools Work in China?

Just in case you were thinking of recruiting in China, and doing it via social media, we’ve got the infographic for you today. Our friends at Maximum have put together stats from a big social recruiting survey in China. Top websites in China (how many have you heard of?): Baidu QQ Taobao Sina Google Weibo…

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The New LinkedIn Branding Revealed [Video]

Have a look at this video starring LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and co-founder Reid Hoffman, looking at new branding for LinkedIn. I haven’t seen any changes to the branding myself just yet but who knows what might happen – I’d go KittenTown personally. Related: LinkedIn Gets a 1980s Makeover [Video]. Image: Shutterstock

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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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Break Your Job Search Slump with LinkedIn

I was recently interviewed about LinkedIn and Social Recruiting in the Australian version of Men’s Health and as most of our readers live outside Oz (including myself) I thought I’d republish a little bit of the article here. Please note that I only endorse my blog and LinkedIn, the other tips are from Men’s Health.…

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Top 5 Twitter Apps for Recruitment

Social media is an absolute necessity in these modern times when recruiting new talent. Twitter is an extremely useful tool for posting job opportunities as well as researching applicants. Alongside applications such as Hootsuite (which can post tweets and job posts) and FollowerWonk (which can analyse statistics about potential candidates), here are the top 5…