‘Recruiters’

HOW TO: advanced sourcing techniques for recruiters

Sourcing refers to the identification and uncovering of candidates (or talent) through proactive recruitment techniques. All articles will contain some lesser-known search techniques and strategies that go beyond the standard Boolean searches.

The Evolution of the Recruitment Consultant [Infographic]

The recruiter of today is unrecognisable from even a few years ago. As technology changes every industry, recruiters have been impacted particularly hard. 1980s Recruitment Top Gun; The tech boom in the ’80s gave high-flying recruiters a chance to spread their wings and headhunt more senior, more technical and more specialized roles 1990s Pulp Fiction […]

91% of Recruiters check Social Networks

Reppler, a social media monitoring service, recently conducted a survey of 300 professionals who are involved in the hiring process at their company to understand the use of social networks for screening job applicants.  The results of this survey are shown in this infographic:

Join the #1 LinkedIn group for Recruitment Consultants

On 26 January 2008 we created a dedicated group for Corporate Staffing Professionals, (Agency) Recruiters, HR Managers / Directors and Employer Branding Experts on LinkedIn to expand our network of people, ideas and share leads. Within a very short time it became one of the largest groups for Recruiters. In fact, it has been in […]

Launching World’s First HTML5 Recruitment Website

I’m very proud to launch the World’s First* recruitment related website build 100% in HTML5; recruit2.com HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard, currently under development. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard […]

You can’t empty your candidate database into our inbox

I never heard of the company Atlassian until I attended the International Conference Employer Branding last week. A 30-minute prezi was given by Sherila Karimov EMEA Director. They are a 225-people Australian-based enterprise software company with offices around the world who take a really great Google-like approach to HR and Recruitment. One of the things […]

Fishing tips for Recruiters

I was looking for good metaphors related to Recruitment and Employer Branding recently. I considered using a metaphor about hunters and farmers for this purpose. For example talking about variation in crops, planting, watering, fertilizing, amount of sunlight, harvesting, etc. But it is really striking how good an analogy can be made between Recruitment and […]