In-House Headhunters – Would you use them?
Last week’s Social Recruiting Conference hosted in London provided another opportunity to learn about new and innovative ways companies are recruiting. However in this case one of the most...
View ArticleThrough The Looking-Glassdoor
You may have already heard of Glassdoor, but if you haven’t, then just think of tripadvisor, but for companies. Glassdoor is a free career community site where users can find and share information...
View ArticleSocial Recruiting Case Studies from Smart, the Social Media for Business...
Smart, the Social Media for Business Conference held in London on the 20th of January provided a number of interesting presentations and workshops covering social recruiting. One of the earliest of...
View ArticleMy Foursquare Recruitment Experiment
Towards the end of 2010 I was asked to put together a campaign to hire a large volume of IT professionals in the Surrey and Essex area for a large gaming company. One of the challenges faced by the...
View ArticleResearch, Research, Research….A brief insight into Online Recruiting with Boots
On Thursday the 27th of January the Royal Geographical Society in Central London played host to the 9th Annual Online Recruitment conference (the biggest in Europe, apparently). There was the usual...
View ArticleLinkedIn Job Listings – Some Useful Insights (maybe….)
Recently, I decided to add to my team and hire a senior business development manager into the mix. As is always the case with most businesses, I wanted a great candidate who could start yesterday. I...
View ArticleSocial Recruiting & The Unexpected Benefits of Transparency
When it comes to social recruiting there are often unexpected benefits (and to be fair there are normally a few unexpected challenges), but hey, I’m focusing on the positives for this post. Some of...
View ArticletheSocialCV – A Test Drive In Social Recruiting
Recently I took up a free trial on an innovative recruiter product called theSocialCV which has been in development for over 4 years. theSocialCV is a global internet search tool that builds profiles...
View ArticleRecruiting Passive Candidates – Lessons in Strategic Sourcing from LinkedIn...
I recently had the pleasure of attending the 2012 LinkedIn Talent Connect conference hosted in London. In addition to some great food, stacks of sweets, music, and all round entertainment, I also had...
View ArticleMost Innovative Recruitment Strategies……….Part 2
A while back I ran a survey across a number of websites to ask peoples opinions on what they thought were the most innovative recruitment strategies they had come across. I compiled the results in an...
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