Love them? Hate them? LinkedIn Endorsements were launched in September 2012 and 3 months after the launch users had given 550 million Endorsements, growing by 10 million per day. So the Endorsement feature is here to stay, the question is really how do you maximise Endorsements? I decided to ask the most connected woman on…
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7 Tools to Help You Land an Interview
Do you want to increase your odds of getting an interview? The solution is simple: network. The New York Times highlighted the news that employers (such as Ernst & Young) are ramping up their employee referral hiring. Why? Simple, according to a Mr. Nash of Ernst & Young, “Our analysis shows referred hires perform better, stay…
Recently there have been a fair few blog posts and articles published on various recruitment sites that discuss the changing nature of recruitment. In summary, what many of them are saying is that recruitment, as we know it, is dying. The cause is the growth of Web 2.0; the socialization of the web means that…
Whether we are walking through town late at night, catching a train or queuing at the supermarket checkout, we make assumptions about people we don’t know: sometimes positive, sometimes negative. When delivering my employability seminars, I often show a number of images of me. I ask the audience to shout out words they would associate…
Have you got the email yet? I haven’t but I have got 20 odd emails from confused people wondering if this email from LinkedIn is a big phishing scam or just a great marketing ploy. First of all, the email is legit as far as we know. If this were a phishing campaign we would…
The ability to recruit the best candidates for senior positions is absolutely essential for any top-performing business. But should the crucial task of sourcing and approaching these individuals to be entrusted to an in-house recruiting team, or should an outside specialist firm be brought in to help manage the hiring process? Both have their advantages,…
What’s the best way to recruit — and later retain — employees? Company career sites? Networking? Word of mouth? According to studies, it’s actually employee referrals. These employees are also shown to stick around for extended periods of times, as opposed to those who are found through different methods. Since referrals are shown to produce better…
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4 Ways to Survive an Internal Interview
So many people are under the impression that if they want to move up the ladder at work they need to push up their sales’ levels and impress the boss. However, it is performance and attitude that is a key to job survival – but even this is sometimes at risk. Some people have had the…
Job hopping is more damaging to your future employment prospects than age or unemployment. This infographic (courtesy of Bullhorn) explains why. Takeaways: 39% of recruiters said that job hopping is the main obstacle for an unemployed candidate to get a new position. 70% of respondents said that people in their 30s were the easiest to…