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Talent Acquisition

How Recruiters Can Benefit from LinkedIn Showcase Pages

LinkedIn has begun rolling out Showcase Pages to everyone — a newish feature available as part of a Company Page. How are recruiters going to actually benefit from this feature? I cracked open a bottle of wine and put my thinking cap on (I can’t think when I’m sober!) How about: Creating a jobs page…

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How to Take a Hiring Manager’s Breath Away

You’ve been to interview after interview and still have no job. When your inbox is empty and your phone’s not ringing, it’s easy to feel like the air has been let out of your tires…well, it’s time to get pumped up! As exhausting as the job hunt can be, it’s your job to stay upbeat…

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6 Things You’ll Ask Yourself When Offered a Job

So you’ve been applying for jobs for a few weeks (maybe months) and after a successful interview, you’ve finally been given the all-elusive job offer. It should all the plain sailing from there, right? Except that’s not quite the case for most! In fact, for most people, the job offer is only the start of…

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Talent Acquisition

The Recruiter’s Guide to Hootsuite

There’s a plethora of social media management tools available to recruiters such as Buffer, Tweetdeck, IFTTT and Dlvr.it just to name a few. Everyone has their own favourite but for complete novices, here’s how you can get started with Hootsuite – probably the best free tool available today: Connect your accounts: On the free version,…

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Talent Acquisition

Recruiters, Here’s Why You SUCK at Attracting Good People

You’re trying to find the right candidates but you suck at attracting really good people…but, why? Here are three problems that need solving: 1) Your careers page: Too much corporate b*llocks, not enough visual content – we need simpler & more obvious information, please! The biggest problem with most company career pages is that there’s…

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Workplace

It’s Time to Show Off Your Talent On Your LinkedIn Profile

Are you looking for a better way to represent your career and life experiences? You can easily show them off with photos, videos and samples of work, however, you don’t need to build a website to have an online portfolio – LinkedIn is your answer!

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Employer Branding Timebound

What Countries are the Most Competitive Attracting and Recruiting Talent?

INSEAD’s new Global Talent Competitiveness Index shows high-income countries leading in fostering knowledge and vocational talent pools. Low-income countries are struggling in both areas. Talent is the V8 engine of competitiveness and innovation for today’s globally connected mobile economy. Those that have mastered the development of skills inside their countries and lowered the barriers to…

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Workplace

What Does Your Job Say About YOU?

What does your job say about you? How are your people skills or fitness? This infographic by Oneshift takes a few jobs and gives them ratings – is your position in there? Office assistants need an eye for detail, but colleagues may see them as unable to make big decisions in life. Labourers bear the…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

Mobile Recruiting: It’s Here to Stay!

When Apple launched the iPhone 4 in 2011 it made headlines by selling over 4 million units in its first weekend of sale. Fast forward two years, and the latest 5S and 5C handsets sold over 9 million within three days. Apple doubled their sales in two years, and we’re just talking about iPhones. Compare…