Category Archives: Social Recruiting

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Christmas Job Search: 5 Things To Do During The Seasonal Slow Down

Posted December 13, 2010 - By | No Comments

It’s become received wisdom that looking for work in December is pretty much a pointless exercise. Businesses are conducting their end-of-year reviews, meeting and entertaining clients, focusing on hitting the annual targets that remain and generally not ...

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The Future Of Recruitment? Wise Man Say speaks to Chris Philips, International VP Of Marketing at Taleo

Posted December 01, 2010 - By | No Comments

Hello Chris? Hello Wise Man Say. Thanks for coming in to see us. No problem. It’s my pleasure to visit this part of the world. Love Chiswick, don’t get to see it much.. (there follows at least 20 minutes of chit chat about South West London, Clapham, The ...

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When To Write A Cover Letter (Hint: Never)

Posted November 29, 2010 - By | 6 Comments

This is just a short post. I am writing it because I’ve seen one too many blog articles lately recommending an outdated and obsolete method of differentiation required of you in the job search – the need to write the Cover Letter. I’ll get ...

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The Future of Recruitment? Wise Man Say speaks to Matthew Brown, Business Development Director at Work4Labs

Posted November 17, 2010 - By | No Comments

Hello Matt, how are you doing? I’m great Wise Man Say. First up, thanks for pointing out the typo, don’t know how we missed it. We have development teams in the US and France and it got dropped between the two. I absolutely agree that we should blame the ...

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Rescuing A Failing Interview: Why You Call Halt & Start Again

Posted October 18, 2010 - By | 4 Comments

If there is a more miserable experience in the entire job search process than a failing interview, I’ve yet to find it. You know how it is – you prepare well, you arrive on time, you even look the part, but for reasons unknown to man or beast, it ...

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Community Dissent: How Wise Man Say Would Have Handled The HRD

Posted October 08, 2010 - By | 6 Comments

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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5 Stages Of Evolution: Social Media In Business

Posted September 17, 2010 - By | 2 Comments

Consumer led adoption has been a key trend within technology over the past 10 years. Whether it is a new operating system, web browser or mobile device, its been The People who have taken the plunge to buy and use new technology first, with companies lagging ...

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Optimising Your CV So A Recruiter Will Find It: 3 Basic Rules

Posted September 13, 2010 - By | No Comments

These days writing a good CV is more than just about making it look good on the human eye; it also has to be optimised so that it is returned in prominent enough page ranking so a recruiter will find it when he is sourcing for the role. This will only happen ...

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Where ARE The Video CV’s?

Posted September 10, 2010 - By | 15 Comments

Since YouTube changed the game in 2005, the application of video technology to the recruitment industry has been the next big thing. It hasn’t happened. Despite its obvious utility, Video CV’s remain very much on the fringes of the debate in the big ...

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Twitter Translated: 5 Unique Twitter terms

Posted August 13, 2010 - By | No Comments

Since Twitter and LinkedIn launched their synchronisation last year, there is a growing sense of inevitability about the deepening integration taking place between social networking platforms. As Scott Monty surmised in his social marketing blog, this is ...

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