Recruiting News
Chasing Purple Squirrels
The job market has gotten complicated lately – and not just for people out hunting for work. For those of us on the other side of the equation things are just as challenging (try and remember the...
Posted on 15th May 2012
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Big Data: The Trend Beneath the Buzzword
The subject of Big Data is on everyone’s short list. The trend beneath the buzzword is so important that is as hard to imagine as the web was in 1993. It’s driven by smart tools, cloud architectures,...
Posted on 15th May 2012
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Survey Reveals Most Important Factors in Attracting and Retaining Employees
The recently released Towers Watson Retirement Attitudes Survey has identified the top 10 most important factors that attract and help retain employees in multiple age groups. The survey divided up...
Posted on 15th May 2012
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Why mobile recruiting has to be part of your social recruiting strategy
I just want you to consider something for a moment – 27% of emails are now opened on mobile devices. So when you send out all those emails with links to jobs etc and then encourage people to share...
Posted on 1st May 2012
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The Recruiters Guide to Optimising Job Ads
Smart ecommerce retailers enjoy healthier profits by employing conversion rate optimisation techniques on their websites. Smart recruiters could do well by following suit.If you’re new to the term...
Posted on 1st May 2012
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The history of recruiting according to @Zartis #Infographic
This is a bit of a fun infographic created by my friend John Dennehey from Zartis. I think he makes an interesting point that referral recruiting is far from a new concept. Although technology changes...
Posted on 30th April 2012
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Social Recruiting does not just revolve around Facebook!
I don’t know about you, but I am getting a little fed up with the whole, ‘Facebook is the total recruiting solution’ hype that is flying around the recruiting space at the moment....
Posted on 30th April 2012
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Packaging and Selling the Candidate Experience
There are plenty of whitepapers and blogs that attempt to define and describe the candidate experience, but can we go further? Can we find a way to make it part of a holistic recruitment approach, and...
Posted on 17th April 2012
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What’s the difference between a consultant, interim, contractor, fixed-term contractor & freelancer?
Right…… starter for ten – in the good old University Challenge style – can you describe how each of the headline ‘roles’ differs – a contractor, an interim,...
Posted on 17th April 2012
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The War for Talent Is Returning; Don’t Get Caught Unprepared
Here is a heads-up alert for you: be prepared because not only will the infamous “War For Talent” be returning to impact your firm, but it is already underway in its full intensity here in the Silicon...