It’s getting hot, even for Thailand. I was down by the seaside for a while until I move back north. However, at the moment being less than 10 minutes’ walk from the beach is fantastic. I’ll be on my travels again next week and will of course keep you all updated.

As you know at the beginning of the year I set up www.virtualdemon.com. This is a virtual assistant and administrative online business…

Tapping inside of the mind of a hiring manager is no easy task. Often, qualified candidates are dismissed because they do not meet the hiring manager's expectations which leaves many candidates wondering- what exactly are hiring managers expecting?

Trying to pinpoint an exact skill-set would be impossible. But job seekers do not have to be left…

The field of Recruitment has also evolved due to the changing times. Unlike the Traditional Recruiting Methods that weren’t very effective, the Modern Methods use Social Media as a recruiting strategy as it is not only cost effect but also speeds up the process. Nevertheless, for recruitment to be successful there are other aspects that have proved effective but in collaboration with Social media.…

Employees are the mechanism that keeps a business running. Employees can have an impact on a company’s reputation. Hiring the wrong employee can be time consuming and costly for an organization (standard.co.uk, WHY HIRING THE RIGHT EMPLOYEES IS VITAL TO YOUR BUSINESS, 2012). There are several options that organizations can explore when it comes to meeting their human resource requirements. These solutions can help organizations find the right staff and reduce costs. Some of these options are…

So this is the 7th presentation of the conference and the 2^nd set of Lab. Titled “Implementing the New Hotness” By Matthew Ferree and “Whats a Webscraper and how do they work” by Kameron Swinton.

First implementing the new Hotness. Matthew talks about souring in Source Code repositories such as; Krugle, Ohloh, Searchcode, Codeade, and…

Whether you rely on a stand-alone applicant tracking system (ATS), lean heavily on mobile recruiting, work with HCM software like PeopleSoft Candidate Gateway or Taleo, or some combination of the above—you have only a few seconds to make a first impression on applicants with your candidate experience.



You may be asking yourself: Why does it matter? 

It matters because the best will always gravitate to the…

A short life

Third party recruiters don't last long. I have hired and trained enough people to know what I am up against when hiring a new recruiter. One out of 10 new recruiters will make it past one year. Many don't pass the 90 day mark. 

It's a tough business. The recruiter is lied to by everyone, strung along by both client and candidate,…

Using social media as a recruiting platform has become a leading practice in sourcing and placing for many businesses today. Though not every post guarantees placements, coming up with a consistent, social recruiting strategy will ensure your messages are targeting the right candidates.

Outlined below are various types of recruiting content that can trigger…

Mary considers herself to be a good manager. Whenever one of her employee’s is struggling with an assignment she swoops in to help them put things into order and give pointers. Her company is now introducing a new 360-degree performance management system based on continuous feedback and, as a manager, she’s been…

There's really no way around it, people use mobile devices. And they use all kinds of mobile devices that are upgraded, evolving and continuously in use. All of this means that the field of UI/UX is greatly in-demand in the mobile industry. But what do those acronyms mean and what jobs are available?

UI

A…

As with almost every other aspect of the business world today, people are being asked to do more with less. Recruiters are in the uncomfortable position of having to deliver skilled candidates to an organization, and they must do so in increasingly creative ways in order to locate and attract the best and…

I watched as my niece played with my iPhone the other day. She is only 2 years old. As she clicked on the YouTube icon, she unexpectedly threw herself on the floor in a fit of impatience. That Pepper Pig video couldn’t load quick enough.

We are all moulding our attraction strategies around the elusive generation Y, the ‘millennials’. But what about…

Traditional methods of Recruitment are gradually being replaced by Social Media, seeing as it is a new era that is evolving at a fast pace. The task of a Recruiter just got easier and more fun. Never before has obtaining contacts been so simple and acquiring Candidates of calibre is now easy too.

If you thought that…

Over the past several years we’ve all embraced the technological advancements. It was just 23 years back we accessed first multimedia browser and now we are about to enter in the visual world with technologies such as Virtual Reality. According to tech giant IBM, every day…

The Merriam Webster Dictionary says a keyword is “a significant word from a title or document used especially as an index to content”.

Well, the keyword in this definition is “significant”.

There are three questions:

1. Which keywords to use?

2. How significant do keywords need to be (tail length)?

3. How many significant keywords do we…

Some days are perfect. Everything falls into place. You just glide along and things just themselves out...

Sadly those days are pretty rare, most of the time we get buried by our task list. From the moment you get to the office you're swamped. You don't get a chance to get down to the important stuff, you're constantly playing defence!

What if you could…

The job market is rough and people will have to stay on top of the process to get a position. Experience will be important, but it’s just part of the whole picture. The recruiters will be evaluating everything on the resume and what happens in the interview.

To help out those candidates, these are some things recruiters will be…

3 mistake you can make…