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Employer Branding

How Saatchi & Saatchi Recruits Developers Inside Diablo 3 [VIDEO]

Saatchi & Saatchi Israel are looking for a tough developer and have decided the best place for this will be to play Diablo 3, the Blizzard hack’n’slash game with the boss of the advertising agency. The tagline says it all: “BBR Saatch & Saatchi is looking for a wicked programmer. One that can work as…

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Timebound

How You Can Still Send Your Tweets into LinkedIn [Video]

The Twitter and LinkedIn integration has been a pet peeve of many LinkedIn users for some time. When used correctly (selective tweets only), it would send one or two relevant tweets into a user’s LinkedIn status. Most users got this wrong however and sent every tweet into LinkedIn. The trouble is that the tone on Twitter is…

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Employer Branding

What Social Media Teaches Us About Leadership

I am really struck at the moment with how frequently leadership is cried out for in the media. According to the media, we are looking for leaders in our political worlds (now there’s a vain hope!), in our economic world (wherever that is!) and in our banking and fiscal management world (God help us all!).…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How to Interview Someone on Camera

Every interview is an exercise in psychology, with YOU playing the therapist. Here are techniques to get the best responses when you need someone to spill their guts…or just explain something, on camera and in full sentences, whether it’s for a corporate video, your website, or YouTube. The Basic Outline of a Good Interview Warm…

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Employer Branding

Why HR Must Embrace Social Media

Social technology is one of the hottest trends in talent management. Organizations are seeking ways to harness social technology to spark innovation and motivate employees but many have yet to fully embrace it. Social platforms and networks have already started to emerge in all facets of talent management but this survey from Silk Road found…

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Talent Acquisition

Time for a Change in Recruitment Sales?

I’ve got a secret. When I left university, I didn’t know what to do with my career, so I became a recruitment consultant. I’d only turned up to register for temporary work and they offered me a job which my student overdraft couldn’t turn down. When I joined this large recruitment firm, which shall remain…

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Employer Branding Workplace

The Weirdest Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

What are the weirdest interview questions you ever heard? Here’s a compilation from our great friends at Jobs Today including some good comebacks. Classic weird interview questions: How many times in one day do a clock’s hands overlap? Why are manhole covers round? What’s the connection between Turkey and Turkmenistan? If you were an animal, what…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

How Recruiters Can Use Google+ Like Guy Kawasaki

Google Plus has got more and more useful for me personally; great user interface, it’s dead simple to share stuff and to keep conversations going there. And it’s useful for sourcing candidates, especially tech talent. Is it a serious contender to Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn? Don’t know yet, but it’s definitely worth testing out. Guy…

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Talent Acquisition

13 Surprising Social Media and Recruitment Facts

Here’s a quick video from technology job board Dice listing 13 social media facts and 7+ benefits of social recruiting. Main takeaways for me here were: 85% of tech professionals use Facebook and 41% use Twitter In January 2012, users spent on average 405 minutes on Facebook 30% of Twitter’s audience make more than $100k…