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Talent Acquisition

How to Separate Good Clients from Bad

As a sales recruiter, you don’t want to find yourself stuck with clients who place little value on the recruiting process, or worse yet, fail to treat employees and that precious talent you’ve been working so hard to build trust with the respect they deserve. Unfortunately, far too many recruiters allow themselves to fall into…

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Can Recruiting with Facebook Work?

You started off by being able to poke your friends, or look-up people you used to go to school with and add them to your account. Since then Facebook has introduced lots of different features for its users including adding filters to your photos, making voice and video calls, sharing pictures, and even changing your…

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Talent Acquisition

How YOU Can Stop Bad Practice in Recruitment

There isn’t a day goes by at the moment when you can avoid a status or blog on LinkedIn bemoaning all that is wrong with recruitment – albeit usually written by recruiters about their competition – and whilst I occasionally partake in the “banter” and dialogue in how to overcome bad examples, I feel that there…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How Recruiters Can Deal with Bad Reviews on Social Media

Clients and candidates are posting reviews about their experiences of recruitment companies more readily than ever before. These range from * ratings on Google, Facebook and Yell to sharing experiences with their respective followers on LinkedIn and Twitter. Recently, a number of recruitment businesses have been ‘panned’ on LinkedIn – I expect some of the…

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Employer Branding

Is Your Employer Brand Fake News?

When marketing takes the lead, employer brands can become a reflection of what the audience wants to hear, not what it actually is. I am a brand marketer. I believe in marketing. I have spent my career in marketing. I like having a job! That said, when it comes to developing an employer brand, marketing…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

9 DIY Headhunting Tips for Small Businesses

What do you do, as an in-house recruiter, when your favourite agencies have tried and failed to find suitable candidates for a key role? You might commission an executive search firm to run a headhunt, but that may not be feasible in a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) where costs might be prohibitive. Also, some…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Why Talent Attraction is the Most Important Function in Your Business

Anybody I talk to who is super smart, recognise how important the alignment between core business strategy and talent attraction is. However, as I discussed in September after I went to the LikeMinds conference – very rarely do businesses see it that way, or more crucially – rarely do TA specialists genuinely get called in for c-suite…

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Employer Branding

How Employee Authored Content Can Build Employer Brand

Companies love it when their employees claim it’s the best place to work. Real opinions from real people really do matter, especially in the world of recruitment. So how do you make sure your company is the most talked-about for the right reasons? Well this week I’ve been speaking to Phil Strazzulla, founder of NextWave…

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Talent Acquisition

63 Valuable Skills to Look for in a Digital Marketing CV

Digital marketing plays a vital role in modern business. Without employees who can generate leads and convert sales online; many companies simply wouldn’t survive. If you’re looking to secure quality candidates to place in digital marketing roles, then it’s crucial that they possess the necessary skills, knowledge and experience to make an impact. CV writing…