The freelance economy is very different from the world where employees go to work every day and complete their tasks as required. Because of this, freelancers need to be approached in a different way if you plan on using them for tasks in your business. Before you hire any freelancers, there are a few things you need to understand about the …

When it comes to recruiting, the ties you make with clients can be all important. Rather than viewing them as a way to make a quick buck, you need to earn their trust if you want to keep them around for the long haul. It’s simple - if you don’t build a genuine connection with your clients, then you can’t…

Hindsight is 20/20, and managers aren’t immune. Managers regret a new hire 50% of the time costing their organization great deals of time and money. If you’re looking for a way to avoid hiring mishaps, it might be useful to stop looking solely at…

The #Tweetchat campaign in the series of #AskHR discussions is the latest campaign we have come up with to reach out to the HR / Recruitment / TA fraternity across the world and involve them into a discussion that can help change the way…

There are processes you can’t wait to outsource in business, whether it’s janitorial services for the clutterbug or accounting help for those who are helpless with numbers. You might easily outsource your marketing automation or even your entire…

Feeling powerless is one of the darker aspects of being human. Whether you’re a parent who can’t stop an illness from ravaging your defenseless child, or you’re at home on the couch watching a television newscast about the latest violent attack in the Middle East, you all—we all—experience powerlessness at some point during life. Much of it, like incurable diseases, can’t be…

Some of our clients asked for advice about how to write a good job description. Since this is one of the more challenging and overlooked aspects of the hiring process, we decided to share some tips.

When you need to hire someone, it’s very normal to feel some anxiety about writing the description for your job vacancy. After all,…

Looking from the outside in, sometimes it seems like hiring manager versus recruiter is an epic, long-fought battle. I can almost picture part of the Hunger Games, where they're all released into the forest to start their survival. Let the games begin!

Others have compared this turbulent relationship to an epic battle like Superman vs Batman or…

If you've been using social media the last couple of weeks, you'll undoubtedly have noticed the "Be like Bill" memes that have been all over Facebook and other platforms.

We thought we'd hop onto this trend and put a recruitment spin on it with a couple of Bill images of our own! Check them out below and feel free to share your own ones.

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Importance Of Recruitment In IT

According to most leading IT recruitment agencies in London, the process of recruitment in IT isn’t just about finding and hiring a candidate with the requisite professional skills. Rather, it also needs the candidate’s social skills to be analyzed as only a candidate with the combination of the right…

When it comes to sourcing candidates, a solid …

You’ve read a lot over the last few years about the gender gap in employment and in pay… but less discussed is the gap in benefits. The ratio between men and women in the workforce with life insurance is immense. Like the gender gap elsewhere, two…

Happy Tim Sackett Day, y’all.

If you don’t know what Tim Sackett Day is, you’re not alone; I just found out about it this year. The point of Tim Sackett Day is to honor unsung heroes in the recruiting industry. In the past they’ve honored some bloggers and practitioners I really respect – …

Whether you are texting the dreamy hunk from the wine bar, the cute girl from trivia night, or even just your candidates: writing the perfect text can be intimidating. Since when did 160 characters become so scary and why make it a part of…

So many people are seeing the need to have social presence. For obvious reasons, whether to find a job, do their job better or just have fun. However jumping in and just getting on all the sites are once can lead to trouble. When I started to become “Social”, I had a staged plan. Today I will outline that…

Employees want and need to know their problem areas and successes on a regular basis. This one-on-one feedback is desired, but unfortunately can't fit everyone's schedules. …

Most Recruiters and Sourcers use Social Media for Recruiting. The popular ones being LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ but are there others that can be used for Recruiting, if so what are they? If you haven’t already thought about this don’t fret because many Recruiters or Job Seekers alike haven’t either.

The reasons why Recruiters and…

Leadership sets the tone of an office or work environment. In fact, …

Have a job? Need a better one?

Even though our daily currency is work, it's not so easy when recruiter's start their own job searches. That's most likely because we know the BS jobs from the brightest opportunities and are a bit more critical of companies.

We're insiders. We know the importance of finding the right job, not just any job. We have a higher set of…

The recruiting toolbox got a little bit fuller this week with the discovery of some new services to recruit the talent you seek. Here's a quick recap.

1. TaxJobs

This is a new niche job board that launched this week. It sprang from the TaxTalent.com community of 100,000 corporate tax professionals that's been around for several years. The…