I wrote a blog for recently giving my ten tips for a blog page. I created this list as I was (too often!) coming across recruiter blogs which just didn’t work, either technically, or content-wise. So many recruiters want to be noticed, to attract, to source – and having a blog is a crucial way to achieve this.…
A lot of focus is placed on the performance of the candidate in the job search process, but what about that of the hiring companies? In order to attract the top talent, businesses need to create a good experience for the applicants, but what exactly do talent want from their job hunt? LinkedIn conducted a…
Before I started working in recruitment there was a sense of mystery around exactly what a recruiter does. A sentiment shared no doubt by a number of others. A recruiter does a lot of different things outside of simply working on a job; however for the purpose of this I’m going to focus on what…
Most people think of Instagram as a platform to share real-time moments. For me? I think of Instagram as a great networking tool. After a recent social sourcing workshop via Recruiting Social I was asked a follow up question: how do you use Instagram as a networking tool? I explained: for recruiters’ social media sites [Instagram] can…
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6 Tips for Career Change Success
There are many reasons why people change career. It may be because they have lost interest in their current field of work, or maybe they are being let go by their company due to downsizing. Whatever the reasons are, it’s not uncommon for people to work in more than one field or industry in their working…
When you take on a new vacancy, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to send over your terms of business to the client and find that they whizz them straight back signed and without question. When that does happen it’s the exception rather than the rule! What’s more likely is that you’re going to have…
What can you do to improve the motivation of your employees? It’s time to take it back to basics, as I list my top three fundamental factors affecting workplace employees. It can be as simple as giving your office a new lick of paint or increasing collaboration, but these things all increase productivity and boost…
What is social collaboration and learning? How can organisations benefit from using these? To find out I’ve had a chat with James Tyer who is the Global Lead of Social Collaboration Lead at Kellogg Company. You can listen to the podcast interview on iTunes and SoundCloud (embed below) or read a summary below. Questions by…
Millennials can seem like a hard group to please. In fact, about two-thirds of employers say their organisations struggle to manage millennials, according to a study by Bentley University. Today, it might seem as if employers believe that ping-pong tables and fancy, tangible benefits is the way of attracting “Generation Y”. It turns out, however, that they aren’t…