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All You Need to Know About the Facebook Job Board

Recently, the Social Jobs Partnership launched its free ‘Social Jobs’ application on Facebook – listing more than 1.7 million open jobs. This infographic from Work4Labs tells you everything you need to know about the new job board, including what it means for recruiters and how to get your jobs in front of the world’s largest…

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Talent Acquisition

What Recruiters Must NOT Say to Clients

Here are a few interesting tips on what NOT to say to your client. As an ex-recruiter I’ve spotted that most of these apply perfectly to the world of recruitment so thought I’d share Open Forum‘s infographic here. The 5 things in a nutshell: Getting a company’s name wrong, whether it’s in a meeting or just…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Get the Best Email Open and Click Rates

Sending an email newsletter is an art which will never be easy to perfect – there are so many factors which act against the senders. Here’s an infographic by GetResponse spelling out how to get the best open rates for emails – and the best times to send them. Takeaways: 23.63% of all email opens…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Why a Good Career Page is Like a Tasty Burger

Here at Undercover Recruiter we believe that content is (Burger) king! This delicious infographic from matchFWD shows the different parts (similar to a burger’s ingredients) which make up a great careers page (or burger). Takeaways (not literally): The bun of the burger is wholesome and good quality organisation of the company. The cheese is the…

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Workplace

Where Can You Find Your Next Job Using Social Media?

They say looking for a job is a full time job. Thank goodness there is great technology around to help us right? With a few clicks of a button we can ‘engage’ with employers on social media. Sounds great, but could it be that all this social stuff simply leads to a false sense of…

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Workplace

4 Tools to Nurture Your Network

Nurturing your network takes time and effort. You know you should be keeping in touch with people you have met along the way, however, you find the thought of it overwhelming and time-consuming. Instead of ignoring your network, perhaps the question is, how can you make it easier. There are tools to help simplify the…

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Workplace

How to Say Thank You During a Job Search

As it is Thanksgiving, many Americans are reflecting on little ways that they can express how thankful they are. While you might say thank you after being passed your first slice of pumpkin pie, it’s often all too easy to forget the weight of those two words when they’re put together. A simple thank you…

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Timebound Workplace

How Tim’s Strategy Tool Can Help Your Job Search

I recently had a chat with our great buddy Tim Tyrell-Smith, something I like to do on a regular basis (see our previous chat here). Tim is an author, blogger, speaker, coach and consultant in the job search, career and marketing space. He is one of the most genuine and credible guys out there and…

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Workplace

Are Interviewers Invading Your Privacy?

When you think of an invasion, space aliens and zombies are often the first thing that spring to mind. However in today’s turbulent economic climate, ‘invasion’ now denotes something more sinister for job seekers worldwide. This infographic from FindEmployment shows how some interviews may be invading your privacy – and the parts of the interview etiquette that…