A few months ago I met a prospective client who is the recruitment manager for a major international consumer goods company. Naturally talk turned, as I’d hoped, to how, when and who they used as third-party recruitment agents? The answer did not make me feel well. In short the use of agents had over the…
Look around in the office. How many people are thinking about changing jobs? Who’s applying already? Who’s open to speaking to a recruiter? Experts argue that 80% of working professionals could be described as “passive”. Our friends at LinkedIn have taken a look at the breakdown of passive candidates, the truth is an overwhelming number of them…
I have been recruitment consultant for the last 10 years and absolutely love my job. I’m aware that recruiters don’t always provoke happy thoughts in the minds of job seekers and clients alike and that is maybe a blog post for another time, but for now I want to give some tips for getting the…
Technology positions can sometimes be hard to fill – with a recent CareerBuilder/Sologig.com study showing that a third of IT employers having open positions which they are unable to fill. Here are 5 steps to make the process easier: 1) Finding the candidates Candidates can be easy to find, but you have to be willing to take…
Today, employee referrals are the most useful way of finding the best candidates for the job. Here is how valuable a referral truly is, courtesy of Jobvite. Takeaways: The average employee will have 150 contacts on social media networks – 100 employees means around 15,000 contacts (and possible candidates). Employee referrals have the highest applicant…
Recruitment technology has changed extensively since the early days, and with the birth of social media it’s become a lot more interactive. Here are some of the main points of its history, courtesy of TalentBin. Takeaways: In the pre-computer era, jobs were found via bulletin boards and newspapers, whereas passive candidates were found via resume…
As a recruitment company, we feel we can offer job seekers some well needed insight into the mind-set of recruiters and our decision making processes. We see so many worthy candidates that we have to trust our instincts when it comes to choosing the cream of the crop. So here are the ways to make…
As a recruiter you have so much to think about: advertising jobs, sourcing candidates, competing not just with you traditional competitors, but with your clients and candidates – everything’s online now and everyone has access to what you have access to. How do you differentiate yourself? How can you make yourself stand out? Heads are…
If you’ve visited the Monster website recently you may have noticed their new innovate ‘batch apply’ function which allows you to apply for multiple job openings with just one click of a button. While Monster seems to think this is a good thing, I couldn’t disagree more. In recruitment we call this the ‘shotgun’ approach,…