What Recruiters Need to Know About Mobile Threats

Whether you work for a recruitment company or are part of a HR department, chances are you don’t work solely on a PC or laptop. Staying in touch with clients and candidates outside the office is commonplace, and distributing access to data with consultants and contractors means the scale of your attack surface is ever-increasing.

Read more

Recruiters: Here’s why you’re getting ZERO engagement on social media

Recruiters: Here’s why you’re getting ZERO engagement on social media

You put up a post on LinkedIn and ask your fellow colleagues to share it. Nobody bothers, right? Meanwhile, you see your competitors face blasted all over social media with tons of engagement, and you’re wondering “what the hell am I doing wrong?!”

I’m here to be the voice of reason you need to tell you that you’re probably getting a few things wrong. 

Read more

5 Digital Marketing Channels to Promote Your Recruitment Agency

5 Digital Marketing Channels to Promote Your Recruitment Agency

As the digital age continues to break new boundaries and completely change the way consumers and users operate, company owners and businesses have to have the initiative to change and adapt with it.

Recruitment agencies are no different. There is a necessity to grow alongside each industry (or industries) your agency serves. Even your marketing has to go digital, as there becomes a need to stand out from all the noise of thousands of recruitment agencies trying to attract local customers attention.

Here’s 5 short and sweet actionable tips that your agency can apply today for your job postings (and your company!) to get noticed

Read more

Social Media: A Safe Haven For Recruitment Processes

59% of job seekers use social media platforms to find recruitment opportunities, according to Talent-Works International Statistics. The reasons behind this trend lie in the way the digital market works. Every corporate business runs by a rule in this digital age. In most cases, it has to do with growing your digital presence. This includes having a clean professional social media presence from which people can refer to. This especially helps when you need to recruit highly qualified senior employees who add value to what you have already built.

Read more

Leverage your LinkedIn Profile for your Career

Are you wondering why your LinkedIn profile did not help you in furthering your career goals so far? Do you have a LinkedIn profile which is incomplete? If the answer to these two questions is yes, you have probably not invested enough time in learning how you can use LinkedIn to attract profile views from recruiters and employers.

Read more

How to Create Gated Content for Your Recruitment Blog

How to Create Gated Content for Your Recruitment Blog

Getting information out to consumers and finding leads is a challenging process. There are so many rules to follow for search engine optimization and keywords and content. It can be incredibly confusing. On top of all of that, you’re competing with hundreds if not thousands of other businesses online to have
your voice heard and your words read.

There are so many suggestions on how to have your content found, from developing online stories to engaging people with contests to gating your content for lead generation. All of these may or may not work for you, but you’ll never know unless you try. Having only one plan for marketing isn’t going to get you anywhere.

Read more

How To Boost Employee Engagement with Social Media

How To Boost Employee Engagement with Social Media

In today’s tech-savvy world, social media has become the technology no one can ignore. Hitting an all-time high in the beginning of 2018 with 83 percent of the UK adult population utilizing one or more social platforms, social media is no longer just for fun. As usage increases among all ages, the purpose of social media is expanding into the workforce. Employee engagement efforts in particular are reaping the benefits of properly utilized social media.

While happy employees are a key to success, we’re explaining just how you can keep your team engaged with these modern tools.

Read more

Using Social Media for Social HR Recruiting

Successful businesses need to have the right human resources on hand at the right time. However, competitive labor markets, complicated laws and regulations, and evolving employee expectations have made recruiting time-consuming despite new software solutions that can automate a big portion of it. Companies increasingly depend on professional HR firms to help them meet their staffing needs.

The role of professional recruiting services has changed with automation and competition within the HR industry has intensified. As a recruiter, you must work faster and smarter than your competitors to truly differentiate yourself and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage that can lead to long-term profitability. Read more

Recruiters - Spend a Day Back in the ‘90s Every Once in a While

Recruiters – Spend a Day Back in the ‘90s Every Once in a While

A few years ago when I was running a recruitment business in Hong Kong the server went down unexpectedly one morning. I remember watching as many of my team immediately began packing up their stuff and heading for the door like it was the end of the day.

Where’s everyone going?”, I asked casually as the stampede gathered around me as if there had been a fire evacuation.

There’s no connection so we can’t work”, one of them replied.

There’s absolutely no point just sitting around without Internet access”, somebody else chimed in, rallying the troops to all bail out with her.

If I’d had a whistle I would have blown it like a coach summoning the team back in off the field.

But I didn’t have a whistle so I just asked everyone to head straight back to their desks.

I suddenly realised that I had a team of supposedly experienced recruiters who actually believed they couldn’t work just because we’d temporarily lost our access to the Internet.

It was time for some basic Recruitment Training 101.

Read more

Social media trends for recruiters to watch out for in 2018

Social media trends for recruiters to watch out for in 2018

As with anything technology-related, nothing stays the same for long these days. Social media is no exception. Social has always been a moveable feast. Over the years it has morphed into a much different animal than it was in its humble beginnings. In fact, it is now a beast – everybody and their dog are now glued to their social channels. Brands are getting savvier and smarter at producing content and messages that target us more precisely. So, what’s next for the phenomenon that is social media?

Read more