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Talent Acquisition

Top 5 Mobile Recruiting Mistakes Recruiters Make

Humans, take note: believe it or not, we’re actually becoming outnumbered by cell phones and tablets. By 2016, researchers at Cisco predict that the world’s population will be surpassed by the number of mobile devices. Whether or not robots end up taking over the world, one thing is for sure — almost everyone owns a…

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Employer Branding

7 Ways to Become a Highly Effective CEO

Everyone’s an expert.  Given the chance to be CEO, I’d certainly know what to do.  There’d be free coffee all round and don’t get me started on the long lunchtimes we should all be having.  You, too, may spend many a happy hour righting your company’s wrong-doings.  What would be on your wish list if…

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Workplace

Do NOT Write Your Resume to Please an Applicant Tracking System

One of the fun parts (for me at least) about being a career coach is seeing some of the terrible advice that other people are giving out. Right now, one of the big fads among career “experts” who completely miss the point is to talk about how to beat Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), those software…

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Workplace

How NOT to Contact Recruiters on LinkedIn

Lots of us in the recruiting world are very active on LinkedIn, doing what we can to be accessible to jobseekers. We love networking, meeting new people, and finding great candidates to fill our openings. Many of us also like to give back to our networks, helping out in any way we can. While we…

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Talent Acquisition

5 Tips for Writing an Effective Job Advertisement

As with the construction of any advertisement, you should begin writing your job description with your target candidate firmly in mind. This will enable you to tailor the advertisement to suit what will be of most significance to them about the available role while ensuring that it is posted in the most relevant places online.…