“Winter is Coming”. Jon Snow is both pragmatic and pessimistic as he warns the world of what is in store in the very popular TV series Game of Thrones. Well, the chilly nights, fresh mornings and cool sunshine suggest that winter is definitely coming. And if you are one of the tens of thousands of workers who have lost their job in the last 9 months, winter probably feels like it has been here a while.…

Simply put I have spent the last couple of months looking for a good recruiter, preferably from a financial services orientated background, but as the weeks have gone on the lack of candidates is staggering!

You would think that living and working for an amazing company in the Cayman Islands would be a huge draw. Great earnings (Tax free), no commute, live on the beach and do what you love in a busy market with plenty of potential!

I organise a HR conference here and…

E-mail etiquette is very important in the working space. A modicum of straight-laced, formal writing is required when you are drafting up an email, especially in your emails to your BOSS. Communicating via email to your boss should be...Emails to your boss…

Social media and recruitment should go hand in hand, they are a perfect match. If you’re recruiting properly you should be selling the story of your business, the brand, ideas, culture and ultimately the job roles available. Social media is also about sharing stories through content using a mix of words, images and video.

The digital world and the real world are closely aligned, and rightly so, it’s all about people having conversations and sharing. The only key difference is…

Setting up a recruiting strategy can be overwhelming, especially if you don’t have much experience with the hiring process. Regardless of where you are in developing your business, look to social networks for new hires. Not yet convinced about…

Job Boards Are Alive & Kicking

As a recruiter the first port of call when looking to find or attract talent is often job boards and I believe that in most situations this should still be the case. This is supported by a recent survey publicised by…

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You're a jerk, ya know. This is the e-mail you send me, really? I honestly don't even know how you got my contact information or why in the world your CMS thought I might be interested in being a "supply executive." 



Now, if the fact that this job is absolutely irrelevant to me wasn't enough to make me…

As people I meet learn I am a recruiter, I often get a reaction to that fact and then a mentioning of a mysterious black hole they suspect their applications fall into.  I hear people complain about their candidate experience all the time (and sometimes, regarding the company I work for at the time).

I really do not understand this.  We live in the 21st…

I’m not sure if this is common knowledge for everyone, as I keep bumping into people who are unaware, but Google personalizes your search results based upon what you click on using browser cookies.  Essentially, if you frequently Google things and consistently look for a Wikipedia article to click on in your results, Google will start to put Wikipedia at the top of all of…

Even the best of the best and the high performing employees are subject to the hazards of the workplace that can lead them towards another…

The cloud-based enterprise has entered the business world, flooding leaders and employees alike with monumental heaps of data to sift through. …

If you are an experienced “head hunter”, you, probably, had the problem of too many applications for one position. And most of these applications are not qualified or even just horrible, actually. So, it is very…

The challenge for recruiters, staffing agencies and HR departments to attract top talent is growing with the prevalence of technology and the transition to a candidate-driven market. In the second half of 2014, 83% of recruiters questioned for MRINetwork’s Recruiter Sentiment Study felt “the labor…

The future of recruiting is inbound. That much, we can all agree on. 

And we know, too, that this new wave of recruiting is powered by proven inbound sales and marketing techniques, taken and applied — to great effect — to the traditional recruiting process. 

Within that category of "proven inbound techniques", lives…

Unlike the usual Chats that you come across @SourcingAdda we have taken the initiative to bring together under one umbrella Recruiters and Sourcers from a pan India level. The objective of creating a WhatsApp Group Chat is to help Recruiters & Sourcers interact with each other and stay updated with the latest trends in the Talent Acquisition field. This is possible…

Many leaders want to be more decisive, but don’t know where to start. This video will show you how.

In addition, be sure to take the Leadership Deficit Test, which is mentioned in the video.

Big Data: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines big data as “data of a very large size, typically to the extent that its manipulation and management present significant logistical challenges.” However, it is reasonable to add another dimension to this definition…

London, July 20, 2015 – Bullhorn®, the cloud-based CRM provider that puts powerful customer insights at users’ fingertips, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Niche Players’ quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Sales Force Automation.[1] This marks Bullhorn’s debut in the report, which…

Well it’s great to have so many Talent Acquisition Professionals like yourself participating, adding or inviting new people to join Sourcing Adda’s (@SourcingAdda) WhatsApp Group Chat. From the traffic that we’re receiving, I can honestly say that we’re in for a variety of perspectives. I’m confident that the conversations we’re having are definitely going to be something that aren’t worth a miss. So if you haven’t yet joined well you better as you’re definitely going to receive great…