The Recruitment landscape is changing once again fuelled by social media and the squeeze from hiring managers to get a greater return on their recruitment campaigns amid greater financial pressures due to our struggling economy.

Now more than ever online recruitment is proving the preferred choice by companies across the UK. Why? Because in this virtual world everything is at the click of a button and candidates can easily apply…

On a daily basis whilst posting my client’s vacancies onto the job boards it amazes me how poor the vast majority of the adverts are on major UK job boards. Poor grammar, spelling mistakes, little detail and no call to action are just a few of the issues I see daily.

I am shocked that major UK businesses are trusting agencies with their vacancies to be represented in such a shoddy fashion. Rant over!…

In 2010 I wrote an article Recruiting Goes Mobile In 2010 predicting that with so many candidates on mobile, this is where we need to be.  I attended SourceCon last week and the topic much of the content was surrounding mobile sourcing.  It made me ask the question...Why are we behind always in recruiting technology?  Why are we not making it happen BEFORE the trend hits?  2 years ago I was…

@Ray_anne Thorn is a Recruiting Animal Show Regular.  She is also The Marketing Manager for Broadbean.com . They post jobs on job boards for recruiters. Rayanne said that her boss, @KellyJRobinson is a smart guy who knows a lot about recruiting so we had him on. He was a bit shyer than he is in real life (IRL) but it was…

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 sourcing, recruiting the individual, Sodexo case study, creating your employment stories and Oracle acquiring Taleo.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order),…

At least 28% of employees check their smartphones during downtime.

For recruiters, this means that the pool of passive…

Making sure you are collecting the right data for your organization is integral to improving and optimizing your recruitment marketingstrategy.  But it’s not just capturing this data that’s most important (although you can’t get anywhere if you don’t capture it.)

Instead the most important aspect is how you can display / make available this data in a way where you can easily make meaningful…

As the job market has shown signs in recent months of improving, the chore of finding the right talent for one’s company becomes even more of a task.

Ask any recruiter or employer and they will tell you that getting the right person in from the first interview, to the background check, to the decision to hire or not can be challenging.

As we all know, having the right employee in place not…

Top 10 Tips for Candidates Working with Recruiters

1. Recruiters are paid to fill a job not find you a job. Try not to take it personally but do understand this is how they make a living.

2. Are you a good candidate? Recruiters do like to place good candidates with good companies. An old colleague of mine once said there is no such thing as a…

1. Passion - Everyone loves and is attracted to passion.  If you're not, find another job.
2. Planning - If you don't you will fail.
3. Organized - You know how easy and productive your life is if you are; if you aren't...good luck.
4. Efficiency - Use every tool available to source clients and candidates.  Your competition is and if you don't, they will win.
5. Honesty…

Throughout my career as a senior Recruitment Leader and now as an Organizational Talent advisor to a number of companies, I have been fortunate enough to work with a large number of great organizations who gave me the opportunity to partner with them on developing and implementing new practices to enhance their recruitment function and hiring outcomes.  A few years ago a large Canadian organization asked me to come in and partner with them to build an in-house recruitment function for them…

(This series focuses on the most common reasons we've heard for why recruiters don't want to offer contract staffing.  These reasons are based on common misconceptions about contract staffing and prevent recruiters from reaping the benefits of offering contractors to their clients.)

Reason #2: I don't know where to find contract candidates

There once was a time when it was difficult to get candidates to consider…

Freelance copywriter Alasdair Murray on how some recruiters could gain a competitive edge over their rivals if only they thought a bit more about the messages they put out into the public domain.

They are there for all to see – the ‘new year, new career’ job ads that get wheeled out at the beginning of each new year. Someone somewhere clearly still thinks it’s original and a bit clever. Trust me, it’s not, nor has it been for many years. In fact, it’s become…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZRe1kPWZw&w=560&h=315

Don't get me wrong, you know I'm a fan of this genre of Recruiting.  That said, I am getting a bit sick and tired of reading blogs, tweets, opinion etc about how this is all completely changes the game and is the best thing that has ever happened to the Recruitment industry.

Is it a help or a hinderance? I'm comfortable sitting here on…

After ruffling some feathers on this site yesterday with my post about what is wrong with Recruiters, I thought it apropos to post a counterpoint article about what is wrong with HR.  If a guy can't rant on about HR on a site like this, where can he rant?  

My typical client is a start-up or mid-sized company mainly because I am able to produce the best outcomes when I am free to…

(This post originally appeared on www.skillstorm.com/blog)

Yesterday, I received a job offer through a LinkedIn email message. My first thought was that it was a scam, but I was already connected to the person so that made me…

2012 and beyond, what is coming?

So what is going to be the new in thing in staffing? In my post some time ago titled “Staffing Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!!” I went over the direction staffing might take in the future and were staffing came from.

Now let see what the coming year has to offer.

Like Social Media was to 2011 , Mobile will be come in 2012. The ability of staffing professionals and…

Folks who are successful in their current roles (read: busy) do not have the time to spend hours updating their resume.  And why would they?  Assuming they are worth hiring, their company history and tenure speak for themselves.  They aren’t in dire need of a new job, and they’re busy doing whatever they do well.  They may even be interviewing based off their personal networks and the attractiveness of their LinkedIn profiles.   

When I have a new client and they’re hot to…

When I started recruiting 2 years ago I made a transition from sales to recruiting. One thing I was not prepared for when dealing with candidates was the stigmas associated with sales. Through my development I have learned a number of things regarding sales careers and wanted to share my advice on what to think about when contemplating a sales role.

First and foremost I acknowledge that a career in sales is not the correct path for everyone but if you are on the fence about…

A report released in December 2011 reported that shale mining supported 600,000 workers in the US and, if 'fracking' continues, is projected to grow to 870,000 by 2015. While this is a controversial topic for many, we wanted to take a look at how many jobs have been recently advertised that are related to shale gas extraction.

Over the past 90 days, there have been just over 1,000 jobs advertised online that included the terms "shale" or "frack." This is a 70% increase…