Now that you have your degree and have put your career into motion, how do you keep it in motion? Why, networking of course! You can find mentors and career growth opportunities just by keeping in touch with the people you’ve met over the course of your career. Networking doesn’t have to be a business card grab-game with sweaty palms and awkward elevator speeches. It’s 2016 and time to update your definition of networking with these five ways to establish and…

What is Machine Learning?

Do You Care Enough to Upgrade Your New Employee Orientation Experience?

The clock is ticking.

It’s been a while – months, likely years. You are afraid to check.

You know it is way past its consume-by date but you are still serving it cold to your unsuspecting…

Excellent Cover Letters – The Key to Finding a Good Job

While we all know resumes are extremely important when applying for job, it is not necessarily the most imperative document you need to secure an interview. A strategically designed and targeted cover letter is an essential weapon for securing a job. In fact, where the resume is of limited value to employers (as they don’t know what kind of work…

ATS or applicant tracking systems are changing the face of recruitment. The following are just a few of the many ways ATS can benefit your business in 2016.

 Recruitment made simple.

 Streamlined automation makes it easier to manage your recruitment process through a simple to use yet advanced software interface.

Focus on what matters…

Bad press from a lack of understanding

If you’re a Hiring Manager or you work in internal recruitment, the thought of involving external recruiters might concern you. Criticism of recruitment practice abounds and, on occasion, that criticism is justified. After all, who wants an email…

In recent times, technological demands continue to impact the healthcare industry with rapidly changing mobile technology, health applications and requirements to record all electronic data. The industry is shifting towards a…

The wine making process we know in modern times is quite different than how we began making wine, way back in Neolithic times. Much of it is due to processing plants and factories that allow commercial wine makers to make so much at once at a quicker pace than our ancestors ever could achieve - unless you're Jesus, I suppose. To better understand wine, we should know the facts that are not exactly well known. But don't try to act like a know-it-all at …

Campus recruiting is not all about attending career fairs and conducting on-campus interviews. In today's talent war where campus is the batlefield, companies need to do more to engage with students beyond traditional career fairs. 

The digital age has brought businesses a myriad of new opportunities to capitalize on. The Cloud, for instance, can be used to manage a lot of your big data more effectively. But with all new opportunities comes risks, particularly security risks. Protecting sensitive data from hackers and malware systems is crucial to the continuity of your business. Here are four common steps many small businesses miss when tackling online protection. …

When you ask most recruiters what is a priority for them most will tell you finding quality hires. This is a main concern for many recruiters, but another area that should be at the top of their list is employee retention. Depending upon the structure of an organization employee retention might not be a direct responsibility of those in charge of staffing, but many times…

Why on-board a recruiter when moving jobs?

You want a new job; something more challenging, a step up the career ladder, an industry switch. You upload your CV to some well-known job boards, create your profile and start your search. Anyone who has job hunted in recent years will be familiar with…

Things are still quite busy in the job board and online recruiting industry - like it ever slows down! I'm sure LinkedIn welcomed Daylight Savings Time as a chance to turn the clock forward and get past the last few months. So let's see what's happened:…

Talent sourcing is crucial to growing your talent pool. It’s very common to source like-minded people, and these can turn into ideal candidates. They are likely to be a cultural fit and are willing to stick with your company through thick and thin. The earlier you start keeping an eye out for them, the better.…

As a man, you know that being free for your entire lives actually sounds quite appealing. However, we find that significant other that makes you want to settle down there is nothing you think about other than your marriage. Your exciting, you want to do this, you want to become a father and you want to have your very own family. However, we all know that you do have the right to those few extra hours of complete freedom before the wedding. The bachelor party.…

I’m still in Thailand and after having a leisurely breakfast have settled in to read some blogs, do a little work and do some marketing.

As you know at the beginning of the year I set up www.virtualdemon.com. This is a virtual assistant and administrative online business focusing on the recruitment sector in the UK. I am making this bigger and better. Funnily enough some business came my way…

After tech unicorn Powa’s fall from grace, it was revealed that its 1,200 clients hadn’t actually signed contracts.

While showing interest in the services they hadn’t actually committed to using them, which meant the £1.8bn success story quickly unraveled as its cashflow dried up.

Recruitment can sometimes carry a similar uncertainty around pushing a…

Which higher education course to choose is an important part of any person's education. From A Levels onwards, the educational courses you select will determine your career prospects. If you are planning to move into a science-based career, you need to choose maths or science subjects, while arts subjects will be ideal for a career in other areas, such as publishing or media. Social sciences are also becoming more popular as versatile options for further study.

A Levels or Vocational…

It's the question on every job hunter's mind. Should they use an employment agency to find the job they're looking for or should they continue to send out their CVs and cover letters only to specific companies? While targeting only your preferred employer could get you a job, most candidates aren't in a position to hold out for an offer. Time is always a crucial element.

Why Use a Recruitment Agency?

Simply put, recruitment agencies have their fingers on the employment pulse.…

In last week’s post we asked the question, who really is your process subject matter expert?  In this week’s post I want to take the discussion to another view of the question. If we have assumed who the process SME is within your organization, then what are their obligations to the organization?

Deming in his 14 points of quality stated that one of the…