Our friends down at Ogilvy Social have taken a look at what makes your LinkedIn profile irresistible to visitors. They came up with 5 key points: Keywords in your profile – if recruiters can’t find you, they won’t hire you! Who do you want to be seen as? People will sum up your personal brand in…
I often blog tips for recruiters to help them with their option paralysis and here’s one tip I really think more recruiters should adopt: think like candidates… (walking into an interview like an Egyptian may just freak them out!) If you’re a recruiter reading this blog, congratulations for taking the time out to do that.…
When interviewing for a job, it’s certainly not hard to find plenty of advice online about how to prepare for the interview. Your resume looks flawless. You’ve studied the company’s website. You’ve prepared a number of questions to ask the interviewer. You’ve carefully chosen your wardrobe to make sure you’re dressed appropriately. Unless you’re a…
For most recruiters these days, it’s important to maintain at least a LinkedIn or Twitter presence. However there is no doubt that managing multiple ACTIVE social media accounts is time consuming. Sharing open jobs across different sites with regular updates can often take so much time that there’s not enough opportunity to engage and talk to…
How long have job boards been around? What was the first one? What year did LinkedIn launch? These questions keep us all up at night. This infographic from samplejobdescriptions.org shows the history of the job board. It draws on information from Jeff Dickey-Chasings a.k.a. The Job Board Doctor. Takeaways: Monster and CareerBuilder (originally Net) began in 1994. The…
I’ve worked in the recruitment industry a number of years and I’ve seen a whole range of different remuneration models and structures used by agencies to reward and incentivise their staff. But in the main they usually consisted of a low to medium base salary dependent upon experience and seniority and then a monthly, quarterly…
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Why Your Personal Brand Needs Color!
Whether it is Tiffany’s robin’s-egg blue box, UPS’ brown trucks, Coke’s red cans, or the Tour de France’s yellow jersey, we immediately identify with these brands by their color. Just as companies brand themselves with color, your personal brand needs color. Your brand colors become part of the visual vocabulary that makes an immediate and lasting…
It’s quite a few years since I worked a desk as a recruiter. But I did, for many years. And I was a pretty good recruiter too. Not great, mind you. Just good enough to have a lot of fun, and make a bit of money. Currently, as a consultant to the recruitment industry, I…
LinkedIn is the social media enigma, the one social media site that seems to have a profoundly stronger impact on companies than it does on its users. For people looking for jobs, LinkedIn is still just one part of a very difficult process. But for recruiters? It’s a gold mine. It is changing the world…