Hire Strategies Blog

How often do you login to Linkedin?

Is this you?

Disconnect to Connect.

The cloudy world of recruitment software.....

So everything will soon be in the cloud? But is that good news or plain old scary and how does it help you recruit more successfully?

Social Service: British Airways Terminal 5 mobile apps and lots of snow....

Remember the snow? It may have all gone but the experience of being stranded by BA still lingers. Interestingly, social was a key component of communication and shows how these channels can help and hinder all at the same time.

The Community Career Site

Way back in 2008 I did a talk about social media in recruitment at a Stepstone customer day held at Lords. I actually did the talk twice and as expected there was standing room only for each session. Not of course because of me, but due to the subject matter - social media in recruitment.

Sodexo UK Careersite gets SEO and social media upgrade

The US recruitment team of Sodexo have been doing great things with social media but, we have just implemented our own version of Jobs2Web for Sodexo in the UK as well as some initial steps into social media for recruiting.

Social Recruiting Workshop Update 4: The results are in! #SRWS

 

So having decided to pull together the social recruiting coalition last week, sponsored by Jobsite.co.uk and Mr Ted at the British Library did it feel like success or failure; good idea or bad idea; friends or enemies?

Digital Nomads

The Internet followed by recession has accelerated changes in how we work with more and more people working from home, hot desking, part-time, job sharing, second jobs, home based businesses etc.  So what's the impact on recruitment particularly as we come out of recession and back into growth?  Will the digital nomads be prepared to come back to the old world of employment?

Building a community - you get out what you put in - yes it takes time!

The next time a recruiter complains they do not have time to use social media to build a community of great candidates remind them why vegetables are often tasteless these days; a bit much like most of their (candidate) relationships.  You can force nature but you ultimately pay the price!

Cost-per-hire <£100 anyone?

What if your boss said you had to get your cost-per-hire to less than £100?  Assuming you are smart enough to already have it to £500 then that is an 80% reduction!  That's pretty much what Intel have had to work out for their new Atom chip.