‘Recruitment’

Guerrilla Recruitment: catch digital creatives with pizza

You catch mice with bacon, digital creatives with pizza. This is an exceptional recruiting campaign, using QR-codes on a Pizza! Have you seen a guerrilla recruiting campaign? Let us know in the comments below. Note: On 26th of November a special session about Guerrilla Recruitment is being organised in The Hague. Interested? Check out our […]

How did you end up in recruitment?

It’s likely you “fell” into recruitment by chance, according to a popular poll on LinkedIn that was started by Claire Barrow. Two out of three respondents fell into recruitment and only 13% choose it as a career.

Recruitment is Sales (not Marketing)

Corporate recruiters are the sales persons of the HRM department. They are the eyes and ears of the organisation due to their frequent contact with the outside world. However they are often act more like marketers (aimed at generating CVs), buyers (focusing on selection), or administrators (doing logistics). A lot of people will tell you […]

IKEA: Career Instructions [VIDEO]

To attract staff to IKEA’s mega store in Sydney, a creative agency came up with idea of inserting career instructions placed inside the famous IKEA flat packs. Customers literally delivered the mailer to themselves. They could then also share it with friends and family.

Recruiting in 2015: Industry Leaders on What’s Next

During the LinkedIn Talent Connect conference in Las Vegas last month a panel of recruiting leaders examines the massive shift that is underway in the recruiting business, how you can overcome the challenges of adopting social professional networking, and how the recruiters of tomorrow will make “engagement” the key driver of their success. In this […]

Get the latest Recruitment news via Twitter

On 20 April 2009 we created the Twitter account @Recruitmentjob to inform you about you the latest global news, blogs, tips, training & jobs for Recruiters. It’s a microblog that aggregates links about Employer Branding, e-HRM, Recruitment & Selection news, articles and blogs from around the world. Messages come from the major news sources and […]

Refer a friend and get $10,000 and a year’s supply of beer

I love creative recruitment campaigns! And Hipster, a tech start-up in San Francisco, has been successful in attracting promising Mobile Engineers and Ruby Engineers, coming from companies like Google, Twitter, SalesForce, Oracle and AOL, to its company with a great referral campaign and an special attention-getting offer; $10,000 in cash and a year’s supply of […]

In-Game Job Recruitment

Agencies are increasingly fighting for the best digital talent. But these days front-end developers are extremely hard to find. There are not many out there. After trying the traditional recruitment advertising the Danish agency Uncle came up with a more creative way to recruit a front-end developer.

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 […]

Facebook Like for recruiting?

The Facebook Like button was released 1 year ago and has been a great success. According to Facebook, 10.000 new websites are adding this social tool every day. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including 80% of U.S. Top 100 websites and over 50% of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites. The result […]