Recruitment 2.0

Friday 26th January Recruitment Roundup

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights, condensed to a few links.  Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics.

• 2012 – A User Guide for Recruiters
• How social recruiting can help you recruit the ‘unicorn’ talent
• Lazy Recruitment Job Advert Writing – one of those ‘mouth-open’ moments!
• Anonymous CV plans back by major employers
• Boring Job Tweets
• You Accepted the Position – Beware of the Counter Offer
• HR Still Struggling to Be Strategic

Next week, we’re into February! Blimey, that went quickly!

-Emily

This week is a nifty statistics video about social media changing recruitment - enjoy.

 

Friday 20th January Recruitment Roundup

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights, condensed to a few links.  Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics.

• 2012 RADs
• Keep It Social!
• Social Recruitment in a Sunday Paper World
• The one with the honest experience
• Unemployment rate hits 8.4% as private sector fails to create sufficient new jobs
• LinkedIn Twitter integration no longer supported – thanks, Alex! I didn’t actually know this was happening – excellent!
• Facebook is the Future of Recruiting – I don’t personally agree with this, but I thought the comments were great to read
• Online recruitment increases across all UK regions
• Self-employment helps keep the lid on UK unemployment, says CIPD

That’s the lot for today – see you next week!

-Emily

Today’s video is just to make everybody smile – that is one happy dog. Enjoy.

 

Friday 13th January Recruitment Roundup

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights, condensed to a few links.  Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics.

• Is Social Media Overrated Regarding Brand Impact?
• It’s all about the conversation…
• Submarines, flying, context and Talent Acquisition!
• ‘We’re not with the veto guy,’ say British firms
• Are you guilty of one of these 10 social recruiting misconceptions?
• Onboarding: the fast track to staff productivity?
• Top employers to increase graduate intake

Halfway through January already.. Yipes!

-Emily

Here’s a video that’s making the rounds at the moment, but it’s just so good it had to go up on here. Well done, IKEA.

 

Friday 6th January Recruitment Roundup

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights, condensed to a few links.  Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics.

• Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6 (see also our blog predicting this demise!)
• The month in HE
• Will the London Olympic Games provide that all-important boost the UK economy needs?
• Facebook IS the Future of Recruiting
• Facts and figures on social media
• Economic prospects for 2012
• What’s so desirable about hiring team players?
• Executive ‘forced out of job’ over LinkedIn CV

First week back in a new year, all very exciting! Looking forward to what the year brings us! Happy New Year from all here at Advorto.

-Emily

For the video this week, take a look at the Facts and Figures on Social Media on 4MAT’s blog listed above – there’s a great video attached to this!

Enhance Media's Online Recruitment Conference

This year, Advorto are heading to Enhance Media's rather fabulous 10th anniversary conference, "Online Recruitment 2012: The Year Ahead" - there's a large range of leading industry speakers and networking opportunities with at least 500 professionals!

This year's focus is on online recruitment strategy, candidate attraction, mobile recruitment, online law and global social media.

It includes a rather exciting list of speakers, including:

• Google
• ITV
• The FIRM
• Boots
• Monster
• LinkedIn

and that's just to name a few!

To find out anything else about conference, click the link here and you lovely readers can even have a 10% discount on tickets - just enter the promotion code adv10 to get your money off!

We'll see you there..

-Emily