LinkedIn has the potential to be a great recruitment tool for sourcing and marketing your brand, but it’s important that you make the most of the platform to optimum results. Here are 15 useful tips for recruiters already using LinkedIn. 1. Make sure your LinkedIn profile has these 4 essentials: A picture – should look professional and reflect your…
In every company, there are a number of hidden talents. Some are fairly predictable. Regardless of whether or not it’s part of their job duties, there will always be employees who are gifted at speaking, presenting, selling, writing, managing, etc. But there will also be other talents that employees possess that are hidden deep below…
A gap in employment is one of the things that many job seekers stress about and fear. When an employer sees an unexplained gap on your resume, he or she may think that you have something to hide or struggle to hold down a job. Therefore, in order to gain the trust of an employer, it is…
Studies show a clear correlation between employee engagement and performance. How would you rate the employee engagement in your organisation? Affecting everything from customer ratings and quality standards to safety incidents and turnover (regardless of industry), poor employee engagement can ultimately have a big impact on your business. This infographic by Bonusly provides some key…
Something that doesn’t get enough attention when thinking about recruitment, is that for the majority of people who attend an interview with your business it will be their only direct interaction with your company. How they are treated throughout that process, good or bad, will form not only their view of your business but indirectly…
Are you trying to attract candidates by offering fancy job titles and goodie bags? Then you might need to rethink your strategy. An infographic from LinkedIn’s Talent Trends 2015 sheds some light on how candidates want to be recruited in 2015. From the second they start researching a new job to penning their signature to a…
Google+ – lots of talk but very little action from the average recruiter. I ran a PR and Content Workshop with BlueSkyPR recently and the marketers in the room all frowned when the Google+ topic came up. Many of you lovely people, just haven’t engaged with the product – BUT you may have ticked a box and…
Universum have released a list of Europe’s Most Attractive Employers of 2015 as part of the Universum Talent Surveys series, that involved University students across Europe’s 12 largest economies during September 2014 to Feb 2015. The study looking into Europe’s top employers involved over 168,000 business and engineering/IT students, who shared their thoughts on what companies…
In the past, it wasn’t quite as common for someone to have a degree as it is today and therefore you were almost guaranteed a job as a college grad. However, the number of people who go on to study at University has risen a lot over the years and studies have shown that starting in…