We’ve all faced those times when we meet new people at things like parties, community events or business trips and we do the ritual sounding out of what each of us does for a living. Do we do this to find common ground, find a beachhead on which to build small talk to fill the…
A new study from Millennial Branding and Beyond.com looks at how Baby Boomers, Generation X & Y use social media and other tools for their job search. 5,268 job seekers were surveyed total, including 742 Gen Y (18-29 year olds), 1,676 Gen X (30-47) and 2,850 Baby Boomers (48-67). Highlights: All generations are spending almost all…
Perhaps you are a business developer… or simply a networker… Do you use Twitter to find stuff or do you just bleet?? Do you want to be able to find people to do business with or research what your competitors are up to? Here’s one tip for you to help with this. Find prospects on Twitter You…
Facebook better than LinkedIn for recruitment? Never surely?! Well, it’s time for another social job seeker study from our friends at Jobvite who have surveyed 2,108 adults, 1,266 of them were in jobs, on how they feel about their careers. Jobseekers in 2012 clearly understand the importance of social networking when it comes to connecting…
TalentBin, founded in 2011 and based in San Francisco, describes themselves as finding “all the wonderful things candidates do across the entire social web”, then combining them all together into a “one-stop search stop for talent pros to find candidates and reach out”. TalentBin takes information from people’s Facebook profiles, Twitter profiles and LinkedIn profiles…
As a recruiter, what type of content should you be putting out online? And what is your company doing to create interesting content for your target audience? Great content leads to a stronger brand online, both your personal brand as a recruiter and your company’s brand as an agency/employer. As our friends at CopyBlogger write:…
Following on from my last post about 30-second resume screenings, I am going to give some ideas about how you can use the first few lines of the profile section of your résumé to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Of course, there is no single perfect approach and almost every résumé can benefit from…
As a follow-up to my last post about email etiquette, I started going through my emails to look at the first line or salutation. As an example, by salutation you might write ‘Dear’ when you write a letter or send a card. As emails are short and to the point, they don’t always lend themselves…
As a Technical Recruiter, my bread-and-butter roles were Software Development positions. I came into the Recruitment world with a background dominated by ‘soft skills’ and a BA in English Literature and as a result, I had a very steep learning curve with a huge amount of technical information to understand quickly, so that I wouldn’t…