Speculations at the end of the week
You know, sometimes I feel sorry for Mark Zuckerberg. He doesn’t do anything and people complain that Facebook has stopped being innovative; he’s does do something and people are quick to tell him how disappointing that innovation actually is. Last ...
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The worst thing that can happen from any gathering of minds is come away thinking that we have all the questions answered. Far better to come away with new questions buzzing in your mind that you hadn’t think to ask before. From the Social Recruiting ...
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I must confess to a sigh of exasperation when I saw that little purple app first appear on my Facebook page. Not another spammy dig at the Facebook recruitment space? The moment passed when I realised it was Monster, and I had to smile; finally a Job Board ...
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There’s only 4 days to go before social media and recruitment crash headlong together at the Social Recruiting Conference, 2011. Hosted by Vic Okezie of Social Conferencing specialists, Crexia Ltd and Alan Whitford, of EMEA recruitment community, RCEURO, ...
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LinkedIn Status updates are boring aren’t they? I mean, just how many times do I need to see that, once again, you’re urgently looking for that Swahili speaking SAS programmer who wants to work a contract in Prague for £350p/d? Almost never, I ...
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Let’s face it. Copying and pasting a few lines to add to your existing employee handbook is the most likely outcome of you reading this post. After all, social media is tough enough already without having to deal with Yet Another Damn Thing – ...
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In last week’s post on Socializing Your Recruitment Business, we talked about the first step you need to take to get your company onto the social web – The Social Media Audit. This week, we’re moving onto Step #2 and an even more riveting topic: ...
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The UK Recruitment industry is finally waking up to the power of the social web. This I know because you all keep calling me up, asking about it. Well, two of you have anyway and by my reckoning, that’s a nationally representative data sample. Encouraged by ...
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I will never forget my first encounter with a job board. Embedded as I was in a recruitment world yet to emerge from the culture of smokey offices, floor-to-ceiling filing cabinets, and bundles of CV’s circulated by hand, job boards seemed pretty much like ...
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My Fellow Recruiters, How are you? It’s been a while and I’m sorry that I haven’t been in touch. You may remember me as the guy who always did enough not to get fired in the bad years, yet never quite enough to make it to the company sponsored all ...
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