Jenny Parry joined Harrods in 2008 and is currently Head of Resourcing. Here we talk to her about the Harrods Employer Brand and the many changes that have taken place in recent years.

Jenny, you joined Harrods from Tesco, how did you find the transition?

Although the…

I talk to a lot of recruiters.

And it is tough for many of them right now. That we know.

Everybody is scrambling for a dollar, chasing every client. A bit like that sad, desperate guy in the bar at 2 am, harassing every one of the last few women left standing.

But there is the irony. As recruiters push ever harder to win…

Since the boom of social networking in the early 2000’s we have been driven to consistently updating the world with our goings on, whether that’s where we’re going, what we’re doing or what we’re eating for dinner (because everyone needs to know that you are eating a really lovely pizza!). 

Although social networks are a great way to keep up to date with friends,…

I believe the answer is…when it comes to IT jobs. 

IT changes so quickly, blink your eyes and a hundred new apps are developed. Hiccup and you may miss the latest software development.  In such an ever-evolving environment, doesn’t it make sense to keep the door open to IT hiring?

The intricacies of the world of global information technology are such that it is becoming increasing difficult to employ an IT department to satisfy changing needs. Education and…

Even more than in other industries, finding the top talent in the tech can be exceptionally challenging. The necessity for highly focused skill sets plagues the tech industry with a constant high demand for candidates to fill positions. And with new tech communities sprouting up all the time, tech candidates are always on the move, searching for the next big thing.



So how do you find these top candidates when they’re so hard to pin down?



The tech talent shortage requires…

On two separate times in the past week, my inbox contained entries which centered around the image that the corporation puts forth to the marketplace. In each one to some degree the organizations involved forgot what their purpose is -- to acquire and maintain customers. To do that we need to have the "right person, in the right job, at the right time and in the right place."

Consider these events. The first involved a cheerleader on the Baltimore Ravens. She was banned from being…

Several of Social Recruiting’s top thought leaders gathered in San Francisco last week at a conference focused on the latest trends in the field.

The roster of experts ranged from corporate talent acquisition executives, to entrepreneurs bringing new technology, to specialists in the latest techniques in Social Recruiting.…

The moving target that is the job Description!!

We have all seen it and dealt with it. A job Description (JD) not written with us being involved, that says almost nothing, and when you speak to the hiring manager (HM) and ask question they give you almost nothing.

Part of the problem is the HMs…

This week, I finish my series with discussion on Facebook in recruiting. I found that there are some pretty strong opinions as to if Facebook should or should not be used in recruiting.  What do you…

Ok my specialty in legal is Intellectual Property.  When one of my former candidates called me she said my brother could really use your help, I thought yea if he is as good as his sister slam dunk.  

Well his specialty is construction litigation.  I did that when I first got into the legal industry.  I did not want to disappoint his sister and he has a good background I decided to take him on.  

Here is my problem I am doing my blind presentation and I am getting feedback but…

Here’s an admission from a recruiter, I save my best candidates for my best clients. Not all clients are created equal and neither are all candidates. Sometimes an “A” player will walk into your office and he or she does not know that they are an “A” player and their just looking for a better job. I love these humble candidates. They know that they are hardworking and successful but have been working under terrible conditions or a terrible boss for so long that they think that this is…

Your Radical Accountability Minute: How To Love Your Employees

Scott discusses how to appropriately ‘love’ your employees.

Click here to…

We've had a lot of conversations with recruiting organizations over the past few months about their recruiting processes  and strategies.  And one feeling that keeps coming up is that they feel like they are becoming too process oriented.  They feel hijacked by their requisition based process and feel like their recruiting teams are focused on and rewarded for the wrong…

Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment   marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. In this article, we'll be talking about hiring process mods, quality candidates,…

 Video Interviewing is fast becoming the best way to conduct a first interview with a candidate saving you time and money and making sure you invite the right people in for a face to face interview reducing the number of time wasters and people who are not qualified for the job here is a simple guide of how it works:

Candidates set up their…

I HAVE RETIRED! 

I almost can't believe I am actually saying those words, but YES(!) I am retired.

My LinkedIn account  is closed (can't seem to figure out how to actually close it so I just deleted everything) and I will no longer be on Twitter.  This will be my last entry on Recruiting Blogs though I may drop by to see what's happening in the recruiter…

There's a phrase I am seeing way too often;

"I have combined full time studies with other commitments. In achieving this, I have shown myself to be hardworking, dedicated and determined in achieving my goals."

I'm seeing it so often it's starting to make me yawn and it's colouring my opinion of what might otherwise be a good CV. It tells me the author went to the internet and slavishly copied the advice given there, without even bothering to reword it in any way. That…

The recent decision by the RAD Awards not to shortlist, or appoint a winner due to the quality of the entrants for their candidate experience category raises some interesting questions regarding the candidate experience and its perceived place within recruitment marketing. The fact that the category was introduced…