So you’ve decided to hire – and after exhausting other avenues – an internal email to see if any other staff members can recommend anyone, a Facebook broadcast message, a LinkedIn update, and perhaps even a four-line ad in the local paper, still no luck.

It’s time to write an ad for an online job board and publish your vacancy for the world to…

Miss Recruitment sits over in one corner of the office, sifting through CV's and writing job ads.

Mr Marketer is over in the opposite corner throwing screwed up balls of paper at the newest member of the sales team. Or whatever they do …

Recruiting and marketing have always been considered very separate functions. But could your recruitment procedures learn a few tricks from marketing…

Corporate recruiters without a talent pipeline are like groundskeepers irrigating a sporting field with a watering can. They simply ‘spray and pray’.

The explosion of social media platforms, particularly LinkedIn, has rapidly accelerated the ability for internal recruitment teams to build talent pipelines, making it easier than ever to simply ‘turn on the tap’ when a job opening comes in and watch high quality, validated candidates come pouring in.

‘Spray and Pray’…

Do you hate conducting exit interviews?

You’re not alone.

Although most organizations conduct exit interviews, statistics suggest that as little as 15% feel comfortable with the process and trace any real value back to it.

For most, they bring up awkward memories of frozen smiling faces as an employee unloads what an awful time they’ve been having or the uncomfortable knowledge that something’s not quite right even though they claim everything was wonderful and they just…