Recruitment 2.0

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

Friday 16 April 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…

• Use a forensic phone screen to instantly spot high-achievers
• Why recruiting is in the midst of a transformation
• Gen Y expect an environmentally-friendly workplace with a contemporary feel
• Social Networking Continues To Surpasses Email In Usage
• Why Marathoners Get Fat
• Social Media reference checking
• Analysing executive search

OK, this video clip has nothing to do with recruiting, but it will make you smile. Happy Friday -- enjoy the sun.

-Susannah

Friday 12th March 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…

• Ministers should get rid of 50% uni participation goal, AGR suggests
• Graduate Recruitment – Blunders to Avoid
• AGR manifesto sets out ‘practical recommendations’ for graduate recruitment
• US and UK employment outlooks diverge
• Everyone says job boards are dying – so it must be true, right?
• Chinese war for talent expected to accelerate
• Why corporate recruiting may be doomed
• Characteristics of the craft

I'll leave you with a wacky video ... it really is a recruitment video for an online games company. What do you think? Did they get anyone?

Recruitment! from Ian Danskin on Vimeo.

-Susannah

Friday 12th February 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…

• Monster indicies -- January sees decline in online activity – but longer-term trend continues to improve
• If you can't satisfy your people -- at least make sure they are engaged
• The psychology of the counter offer
• Get primal with your recruiting instinct
• Five recruiting scenarios: Guild cities
• Promises, promises -- how to identify a bad hiring test
• Academic evidence: Layoffs are bad for business!

Today's video is from Hubspot about "How to create business pages on Facebook". The audio/voice is a bit weird and stilted, but you will learn how to create a business page in six minutes. Well worth watching.

-Susannah

Friday 29th January 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…

• Motivation: Unplugged
• How important is social media to the recruitment industry?
• Webinar: What works and what doesn't when using video in recruiting
• Assessment 101: An introduction to candidate testing
• Calculating time to hire: business days vs. calendar days
• Is email dying in the face of social media and SMS?
• HR landscape n 2010: challenges
• Tweeting under false circumstances: social media ethical dilemmas

I'll leave you with this video from Deutche Bank. It's about an intern's experience. Great idea. Nice execution.

-Susannah

Friday 18th December 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…

• 2010 -- The year the talent wars resume
• Over hiring is company suicide
• Your internship programme -- a look back before looking ahead
• What to expect in the assessment world in 2010
• The 75 best business blogs of 2009
• "Teacher pet" or "could do better" -- find out in the CIPD employment quiz
• The future of recruiting -- what will HR's role be?
• Graduate jobs market gets even tougher
• Why HR will never embrace social media
• HR executives suddenly get hot
• The seven habits of highly annoying social networkers

I'll leave you with a crazy frog enjoying Christmas...

Crazy Frog - X-Mas - More amazing video clips are a click away

-Susannah

Friday 4th December 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…

• Conservatives pledge sales recruitment and graduate jobs if they come to power
• College develops iPhone app
• The graduate question
• Seasonal cheer
• Warning: long term side effects of recession may include...
• The doors are about to open: can you really keep your best people?
• Just one look at cost per resume
• How to catch the high fliers

Today's video is something that will help you in an interview or at the company Christmas party: How to tell if you have bad breathe.

-Susannah

Friday 28 August 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…

• Top ten iPhone apps for recruiters
• Liar, liar, resume on fire
• The cheaters guide to recruiting with Twitter
• BT bosses anxious to make clear their commitment to graduate recruitment despite suspension of its graduate scheme
• We don't compare ourselves to other airport restaurants
• Hanging themselves on the telephone

• Counter cyclical hiring - the greatest recruiting opportunity in the past 25 years

I found a video completely appropriate for a Bank Holiday weekend (though I warn you it has nothing to do with recruiting).

-Susannah

Friday 14th August 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…

• Sourcing insights: SEO is not enough
• Always be closing
• HR jobs market shows first increase in six months
• Lessons learnt from very tiny businesses
• Young hardest hit by recession
• Summer school turns away hopefuls
• What's your pattern-based strategy?
• The culture at Netflix

I found this Dilbert Evil HR Director video on You Tube. What do you think?

-Susannah

Friday 31 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…

• Ten tips for attending a trade show
• The recruiter's toughest challenge
• Employer branding written by academics -- useful then!
• Social networking's value in building knowledge still not appreciated by business decision-makers
• The initiator
• Women still less likely to get top jobs

Ever had a bad day at the office? Here's another great Rave Recruitment vid. Happy Friday!

-Susannah