Speculations at the end of the week
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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Gen Y. Personal Branding. Have two terms ever been more synonymous with each other on the social web than these two over the past few years? From the moment Dan Schawbel launched his one man marketing crusade with Me2.0, it seemed that the new generation ...
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It’s hard to be in a building for two days with some of the best brains in social media and recruitment, and not learn a thing or two about this industry we’re in. And yet for all the education I received from such luminaries as Matt Alder, Andy Headworth ...
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In the world of Social Recruiting, we spend a great deal of time talking about Return Of Investment. Whenever ‘Social Media’ and ‘Recruiting’ are in the same sentence, the three letters of R, O & I are never far behind. Why Do It We Do It? We like ...
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I was cold called yesterday. It was, it must be said, a brilliant effort from a charity fundraiser from World Wide Fund For Nature – polite, well researched and perfect in pitch & tone. It was almost a shame when I delivered the inevitable ...
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Personal Branding has become the topic du jour on the social web. Everywhere you look you will find a blog, an article, an opinion piece or an advice column on Personal Branding and what it means for the world. It is, without doubt, an important concept, ...
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It’s probably fair to say to that somebody had a pretty bad day last Friday. That somebody almost certainly worked in the Public Relations department of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development and was manning that organisations twitterfeed when this ...
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There is so much material online about the do’s and don’t’s of Twitter that it would take a novice no more than 5 minutes of judicious Googling before he or she would be able join the ranks of the twitterati by the simple expedient of following rules of ...
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