Recruitment 2.0

Friday 15th July 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.

• Skype-on-Facebook: What It Means For Recruitment & The Job Search
• HR, prepare to be transformed… By the IOR?
• 2011 RMAs
• Google+ For Recruiters
• Invisible Barriers
• Social media privacy goes both ways in the interview process
• Prospects for graduate recruitment

That’s all this week – have a great weekend!

-Emily

This video is about the benefits of e-recruitment and is thanks to GR Online.

 

Friday 6th May 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.

• Attracting passive candidates?
• The future of graduate recruitment
• The death of middle ground recruiters?
• Why social recruiting has to go retro to be a success going forward
• Implementing an Applicant Tracking System
• The Sony PlayStation Network hack
• A newbie’s 10 considerations for social media recruitment (SMR)

And that’s it from us – see you next week!

-Emily

This video was one of the most iconic adverts that Levi ran – not only did it see a boost in applicants to Levi, but it also raised Handel’s Sarabande up in the classical charts!

 

Friday 25th March Recruitment Roundup

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

• Twitter Guide – part 2
• The Budget aftermath
• How to find success in recruiting
• Social recruiting can be social marketing too
• Surge – the new social recruiting Facebook app
• Are job boards still alive?
• Onrec award winners 2011
• AGR’s winning formula for challenging times

Here’s to a sunny weekend!

-Emily

This week's video is a clip of the SmartBird - it's amazing!

 

Friday 11th March Recruitment Roundup

This week's round up is going to be slightly different folks - we are celebrating the power and talents of the mighty blogger! So please read on for our picks from this week.

• The end of an era – goodbye HRD..
• Tweet stats and what they mean
• The man for sale on Ebay
• 10 ways you should be using LinkedIn
• How to post on social media websites effectively
• What HR can expect from the 2011 budget
• MI5 launches online recruitment game for spies
• Redefining social recruiting for 2011
• ‘Recruitment Fraud – what ever next?’

Back to the usual mix next week, so until then...

-Emily

The video is similarly themed this week - 'Blogs in plain English'. Here's to a sunny weekend!

 

Friday 25th February Recruitment Roundup

This week’s news and blog highlights, condensed to a few links.  Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics..

• Social media myths highlighted by famous film quotes!
• TARGETjobs awards - shortlist
• Know your RPO
• Olympics jobs website goes live
• Recruitment via social media
• NHS – must face up to new world
• ‘Mobile Mad Men’
• Can technology improve filling your vacancies?
• Lord Davies’ target – unrealistic?

That’s it for this week, here’s to a sunnier one next week..

-Emily

Can companies cope with employees working outside the office..?  

 

Friday 11th February Recruitment Roundup

This week’s news and blog highlights, condensed to a few links. Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics..

• What to avoid doing in interviews
• The most important skill for success?
• ‘Don’t let the banks hold us to ransom..’
• Tips for successful deal making
• Recruitment Leaders: 10 rules of communication
• The year ahead in online recruitment
• Talent management and technology
• ‘Dare to be different with job postings’
• Is this goodbye to work suits?

See you on Monday!

-Emily

This has been described as ‘the toughest interview ever’ – see what you think!

 

 

Friday 14th January Recruitment Roundup

This week's news highlights condensed to a few links. Read on for interesting stories regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics..

• Executive search hiring to increase
• 8 ways to use the web for SEO
• Pensions aid recruiting, retention
• Recruitment levels remain tough
• What hiring managers and recruiters miss
• Importance SEO
• Restrictive Covenants for Recruitment Consultants
• Work Programme targets are too ambitious

Have a fun-filled weekend, this is the video that won awards at the RAD awards for Publicis & Skive last year..

-Emily

 

 

Friday 30 July recruitment roundup

We’ve condensed the week’s news to just a few links.  Read on for interesting stories and videos regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics…

• Recruiting passive candidates -- how to get top-notch referrals
• Ageism -- are you being politically correct?
• What you don't know could hurt you
• How undergraduates use recruitment sites
• Another take on internships
• Job boards are simply everywhere
• Catch me if you can
• The power of sync
• Masters degrees - do employers value them?

A recruiting reality TV show? Only in America...

Find more videos like this on Recruiter Earth

Have a great weekend.

-Susannah

Friday 21 May recruitment roundup

We’ve condensed the week’s news to just a few links.  Read on for interesting stories and videos regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics…

• How to create a killer email offer in ten minutes or less
• Good at talking vs. good at doing
• The Bar to “Credible Activism” By HR Leaders Leveraging Social Media
• Ten rules to instantly improve your presentations
• Recruiter job famine coming to an end
• Laundry list ads, job hopping and facebook sourcing

I'll leave you this very fine sunny Friday with a vlog brother video. Can you figure out why this got 89,303 view in 24 hours? Me neither.

-Susannah

Friday 14 May recruitment roundup

We’ve condensed the week’s news to just a few links.  Read on for interesting stories and videos regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics…

• Largest ever spring intake of graduates at PwC in the UK
• Twitter gets business savvy with new business centre
• Four business blogging best practises
• Graduate news: Employers plan on raising graduate recruitment targets
• The Bar to “Credible Activism” By HR Leaders Leveraging Social Media
• Recruiting Disruption For ERE

The following video isn't about recruitment, but the latest John Lewis ad that is taking the UK by storm. It a good example of using emotion in video, perhaps there is a lesson to be learnt?

-Susannah