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...
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...
Have you seen many articles on social media and the measurement of the ROI it brings? Have you noticed that most of them either skirt around the issue or say that “it’s a grey area” or “it can’t be measured like other things”? Or even worse, they are patronizing...
Progressive companies in many different market sectors are adopting a pragmatic, planned approach to social media which will allows them to demonstrate that they understand their customers issues and what is happening in the market. Martin Tripp Associates, a specialist Head Hunting firm in the Media sector, is one...
London Recruiters – Don't start using social media… Unless: 1. You know what your quantifiable business objectives are. Not your marketing objectives but your business objectives. How many clients, candidates, recruiters, meetings, deals, do you need this week or month? 2. You identify which objectives can be helped by socially...
Recruitment was one of the first market sectors to use social media as an advertising channel, taking advantage of the huge number of potential candidates who use Facebook and LinkedIn. Then, within a few years, they started to make use of Twitter as a great way to broadcast the...
Our most recent Direct Resourcing Think Tank was hosted by Sara Philp from British Airways and the recruitment topic was On Boarding. Nothing to do with boarding flights but rather how to on board people into jobs and into your organisation. The event was well attended with recruitment leaders...
Recruitment agency MD's say that their biggest challenge is hiring quality recruiters. Hiring high quality recruiters often solves the problem of getting quality candidates and clients. In this post I am going to share some thoughts on how companies could source better candidates.
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