In this video, we outline three quick tips to remember when posting content on Facebook to ensure you maximise engagement. What’s been your most popular post on Facebook? Let us know in the comments! Takeaways: Post type – Photos get the most likes and shares, with text getting the most comments. Day and time –…
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Everyone isn’t as truthful as they always want to be – and resumes are one of the most common places for lies to show up. This infographic (source) shows some of the most common things that job seekers lie about or otherwise misrepresent their resume or CV. Takeaways: 46% of resumes submitted by job applicants…
This infographic, courtesy of NBRI takes a look at employee engagement and how to improve it. How good is your employee engagement? Let us know. Takeaways: Give engaged employees flexible hours to show you trust them. Create a calm area where employees can take it easy. Taking the time to write a handwritten letter can…
We all know that good preparation is the key to success in an interview. One aspect of this is thinking through the type of questions you are likely to be asked and having a killer answer up your sleeve. To get you started, we have compiled a list of the top 10 most common questions asked…
Do you need to source candidates? Do you need to study your competition? Do you want to keep a very close eye on what your clients are doing / their recruitment opportunities / their starters and leavers? Well, read on… Last year, the lovely Undercover Recruiter (thanks Lisa!) published a blog for me entitled “Why…
The new year is upon us and it means a clean slate, an open mind, and lots of New Year’s resolutions. Professionally, it also means looking at practices and seeing how your organization can improve in 2013. While it’s no surprise that organizations beef up their talent pool at the beginning of the year, how…
So, I was asked to share some of the stories from my 2 years as a headhunter, which got me thinking about all the crazy people I encountered in that time. My market was international telecoms, so I have, at some point, attempted to sell to, or recruit, different people from pretty much every continent…
LinkedIn, the number 1 professional social network has reached 200 million members. This infographic, courtesy of LinkedIn themselves, shows how they are made up. Takeaways: 74 million of LinkedIn users can be found in the United States, with 11 million in the United Kingdom. Turkey, Colombia and Indonesia are the fastest growing countries. China is…
Those who know me, know that I embrace modern technology, social media and social communications in marketing, branding and networking my business and profile. I believe it is a massive opportunity for good recruiters to attract great people seamlessly. But the growing desire to make the recruitment process faster and more accessible; which on the…