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Employer Branding

How Jagex Games Studio Saved £1 Million in Recruitment Fees

Jagex stands as the UK’s largest independent games studio employing over 550 skilled professionals. This achievement requires a state of the art recruitment strategy and a recruitment team ‘hard-wired’ in to the global talent pool. We believe that our world-class online representation through social media channels, a comprehensive global events calendar, our refined and personable…

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Talent Acquisition

The Deal Is Going to Hell, But I’m Enjoying the Ride

I was having a chat with one of the truly awesome agency sales/recruiters I know. I mentioned her banter wasn’t up to par, and she replied with (and I copied this straight from our text, by the way): My banter is worn out from being on the phone with [name removed to protect the guilty]…

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5 Ways Mobile Recruiting is Changing the Hiring Process

Mobile technology is huge: Between cell phones, tablets, and other devices, the U.S. now has a total of 435 million gadgets in our homes – which means devices outnumber its citizens. Not surprisingly, more than 70% of active job seekers use their mobile phones to look for jobs. Unfortunately, companies are struggling to keep up despite the enormous opportunity…

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Workplace

4 Tenacity Lessons For Your Personal Brand

We know that ‘passion’ is critical in personal branding. After all it is our passion that drives us to communicate our unique promise of value. But is it only passion that pushes our personal brand forward, or is there something else at play? We can be passionate, but also lazy and simply sit back and hope things will…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Recruit Tech Talent (When You’re a Luddite)

As in-house recruiters, we often have to recruit for a very wide variety of roles. These can range from entry level positions right up to board level management, and this is no different to the situation at Epsilon – we are a leading marketing technology services business, and not surprisingly a lot of our positions will be marketing technology…

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Interview Etiquette: A Complete Guide

Our friends at Rasmussen.edu have created this great guide to interview etiquette – make sure you follow their steps! Pre-Interview: Research the company, make sure you’re on time and turn your phone OFF! During: Make sure you are welcoming, smiling and have a firm handshake. After: Make sure you send a thank you note, but don’t…

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The Many Jobs of Your Personal Brand

Personal branding, so loved, loathed, disputed, so …useful? Our friends at Behooved have come up with this useful infographic about how personal brand does a lot of jobs around the house, including: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Social Media Manager Publicist Sales Assistant Intern See what you think below! RELATED: How to Build Your Personal Brand

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Talent Acquisition Workplace

Where Do Recruiters Go to Find Talent?

If you want to get found by recruiters then you need to understand how they think! Bullhorn Reach released their 2013 North American Social Recruiting Activity Report and this information should help you understand how to improve your job search: Who Is Bullhorn Reach? In case you haven’t heard or seen this name before, Bullhorn Reach…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Stimulate Innovation in Recruitment

There was a wonderful piece in the satirical news site The Onion recently about the recent SXSW conference in the USA. The piece claimed that the word “innovation” had already been said 650,000 times, and drily noted the complete absence of phrases such as “investment model” and “practical business strategy“. When people think of innovation,…