There has been quite a lot of argy bargy in the recruitment space recently following the launch of the ‘Apply with LinkedIn’ button, hot on the heels of their IPO announcement. A large amount of the debate is centred around the impact of the tool and, given LinkedIn’s ever extending reach into resourcing, whether it…
I read an interesting post from the formidable @garyfranklin the other day entitled ‘Recruitment fraud – whatever next. Outlining the disturbing trend of how criminal gangs are using spoof corporate websites in order to farm personal details for identity fraud and or solicit money for visa applications that never materialise. Truly shocking, but we should…
They say only the good die young and if 40 is the new 30 then we have indeed been robbed of someone in their prime. Always the professional; honest, ethical and with the highest levels of integrity she touched the hearts and minds of some of the greats in HR, including, on occasion, multiple generations…
I was lucky enough to attend the Smart Resourcing 2010 conference last week which overall was very good so I have decided to share my belated feedback with you. First job of the day was to change the twitter #hashtag, the original – #smartresourcing2010 being way too long and stealing precious characters from the 140…
Blimey, recruitment can be a tough business can’t it! The last year or so has been a real challenge and having seen the use of recruitment agencies decline over the last 10 years (proportionately) – despite the overall growth in the market up to 2008 – its been on our minds that their must be…
I have had some really interesting conversations on Twitter recently, many on the future of recruitment. One particular conversation with fellow twitterers @mervyndinnen and @billboorman was followed up by a post from Bill on his Recruitingunblog entitled R.I.P Recruitment, encouraging recruiters not to give up on their industry and insisting its not dead. Of course…
[tweetmeme]You may have seen the recent post entitled How free social media beat the recruitment consultants to death It seems to have caused much hysteria in certain circles and whilst it is still a bit premature to hail the death of the recruitment consultant (again!) it does serve as an indication of the power of…
When I first dipped a toe into the world of recruitment the term ‘Passive’ when referring to candidates didn’t really exist. Back then they were known as ‘innactive’ candidates and only really of interest to Search firms like the one I was with at the time. Paid to dig around and not rely on advertising,…
