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Recruitment, Social Media, and Today’s Challenges – Betfair video

Social Media and Recruitment / Social Media Recruitment

In this short video, Malcolm Kemp, Director of Talent Acquisition at Betfair, talks to eSocialMedia about recruitment, social media, and today's challenges, as well as what makes a good recruiter. Betfair have taken the view that without the right resources, it would have been the wrong thing to do...

Strategies For Getting A Return On Investment from Social Media

Social Media Return on Investment / Social Media Strategy

At a Technology Marketing Council event run and hosted by Forrester Research last week, Colm Hannon hosted a session on social media strategies for real business benefits which explained how some of the leading companies in the UK have approached the issue of how they can get a real...

How Skype is using Social Media for Recruitment

General / Social Media and Recruitment / Social Media Tools

During a recent meeting I had with Skype's Gavin Russell I asked about how they use Social Media for recruitment    

LinkedIn buys Slideshare

General / Social Media and Linkedin / Social Media and Slideshare

An Interesting Acquisition. In the world of B2B social media, two of the most important technology players have been LinkedIn and Slideshare – both vitally important components of success for the majority of companies who understand how to approach B2B social media professionally and effectively. Well, as announced today,...

How to use Skype for Recruitment

General / Social Media and Recruitment / Social Media Case Studies / Social Media for Recruitment / Social Media Tools

Skype has to increase headcount by 40% in the next 6 months. eSocialMedia's Managing Director Colm Hannon asks Gavin Russell, Global Program Manager at Skype about how they use Skype for recruitment.   If you would like to share how you are applying social media in your business get...

The Secret to Innovation in Recruitment

Social Media and Recruitment / Social Media for Recruitment / Social Media for Recruitment Consultants / Social Media Recruitment

Recently at Barclays in Canary Wharf we had a fascinating Think Tank about the Future of Innovation in Recruitment. Again as always it was a who's who of global brands and international recruitment leaders. It was interesting for me that most recruitment leaders perceived social media as the recruitment...

Does B2B Social Media really have a Return on Investment?

Social Media Monitoring / Social Media Recruitment / Social Media Return on Investment / Social Media Strategy

Huge amounts of money have been invested in social media projects in recent years, yet if many blog posts by social media ‘experts’ are to believed, we should not be looking for a financial return on these projects. So does B2B Social Media really have a Return on Investment?

Retain your top performing sales people using social media

Internal Communication Tools / Social Media and Recruitment / Social Media in London / Social Media Recruitment

Social media can be used to help retain your top talent which can help reduce your business risk

How to get tickets to a rugby international using social media!

General / Social Media Tips and Tricks

I was at work one Thursday afternoon and my business partner Tim suggested I take a couple of days off so I decided to go to the France v Ireland 6 Nations game in Paris that Sunday. I immediately contacted all of the usual suspects for tickets and all...