Finding Talent Using Twitter Search (Infographic)
For many people in recruitment, talent and HR, Twitter still proves to be a social media platform many simply shy away from. And yet it is such a fantastic social recruiting tool for identifying and engaging with people - candidates and clients included. While there are many tools that can be used in conjunction with […]
10 Reasons Why There Is a Disconnect On LinkedIn Between Recruiters and Candidates
Why do so many recruiters make wrong assumptions with regards to prospective candidates when they use LinkedIn? We all know what happens when you make assumptions, yet every single day, recruiters are making some huge ones directly regarding their target audience - candidates - on the world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn. And if you are […]
The Day I Discovered A Recruitment Dominatrix [True story]
Image credit here I am going to share with you true story from a social recruiting workshop I did, that will undoubtedly make you smile, but also has potentially serious consequences for your employees. For reasons you will soon understand there will be no names mentioned here. As part of my consulting assignments with companies, […]
5 Ways To Connect With People On LinkedIn For Free Without Their Email Address
Over the last few months we have all seen LinkedIn reduce the capability to easily connect and network with people. While I have no issue with them doing this (they are a business after all), it gets a little frustrating when methods you have used for ages suddenly disappear without warning (or explanation). I […]
How To Source Candidates Using Google Plus and Twitter [Recording]
Google+ and Twitter are still being under-used by recruiters and sourcers looking to identify and engage with new candidates. There are huge advantages - 2.6 billion - in using these platforms to identify prospective talent across all sectors, industries and in different countries. Yesterday I delivered a live webinar for Sourcecon (ERE), on the […]
Why Are Recruiters Playing LinkedIn Hide And Seek?
As a recruiter or a sourcer, you want people (applicants, candidates, referrals etc) to find you, don’t you? You are at the very least using LinkedIn and maybe even some other social networks, so it isn’t as if you are being bashful with your digital presence, is it? So why are so many recruiters still playing […]
