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Talent Acquisition

How to Use Twitter to Source Candidates by Location

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…

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Timebound Workplace

Why Facebook Beats LinkedIn for Job Search

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…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

How to Use TalentBin for Social Recruiting

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…

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Talent Acquisition

A Guide to Content Marketing for Recruiters

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:…

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Workplace

How to Take Your Resume from Bland to Bold

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…

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Employer Branding

What is an Appropriate Email Greeting?

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…

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Talent Acquisition

Top 5 Interview Questions to Ask Software Developers

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…

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Workplace

The Most Useful Job Boards for Candidates

You’re looking for a new job, so the best place to turn is to the biggest and most popular job posting sites, right? Maybe not. Employers don’t always turn to the major job posting sites. It pays to know what type of employer is likely to post on what job sites. The Major Players When…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

Why Recruiting Online is More than Just Sourcing

Have you noticed how it is getting easier and easier to find people online? Nowadays you can find Java developers on GitHub, accountants on LinkedIn, journalists on Twitter and your  neighbour’s cat on Facebook. Everyone is leaving an online footprint somewhere, whether it’s actively pushing content out on Google Plus or just being listed for…