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Is your HR Manager more Miss Marple or HR 2.0? [Fun infographic]
Is it always right to pick on HR, and make them the butt of jokes and mirth? Well, to be honest, yes on some occasions, because some of them should - quite frankly - be in a different career, like flower arranging or knitting needle design - male and female for that matter!! (Even those […]
Can social media bring employee referral schemes to life or are they dead already?
An area of recruiting staff that has been around for as long as recruitment itself, seems to be fighting hard to re-invigorate / re-invent / evolve ( <—- take your pick accordingly!) or even just get started for some companies.I am not talking about anything revolutionary here - it is the humble (yet so powerful) […]
Social Recruiting Corner #7- Hashtags and Why social media isn’t working for you
This week on Social Recruiting Corner, I answer two questions from conversations I have had with recruiters and researchers earlir this week. What is a #hashtag and how do you use them? Why isn't social media working for me and my business? Both questions are really interesting, and ones that I explain in detail in […]
What are the skills that a Social Media Community Manager needs to succeed?
I am sure by now you will have all heard of the job title, 'Community Manager', that has now started to appear on many job boards. In social media terms, it is the new buzz-word job title, that has tried to encapsulate a number of different job funtions around social media. But what makes […]
HR, Recruitment & Resourcing - should they be separated and aligned with marketing?
One of the chapters in a social media in recruitment report I have been commissioned to write, looks at what part HR play in social media recruitment. I recently asked the question in the excellent LinkedIn Group, The HR Professionals Network, and got a very interesting answer from Isabelle Hung , a strategic talent […]
Your referrals could SURGE ahead with this new social recruiting Facebook app
Let's be honest, Facebook WILL become an effective social media recruitment platform at some stage. It is so big and has so much reach globally, I believe it is only a matter of time…………… once people overcome their individual (and totally understandable) issues of Facebook as their 'personal networks' of just family and friends. […]
