online recruitment

Is your dream candidate in hiding?

Posted under employer advice, online recruitment on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 No Comments

The fact that you are reading this blog suggests that you are looking for the best staff recruitment tips and tricks – and certainly, you would expect recruitment agencies like webrecruit (http://www.webrecruit.co.uk) to help you in hunting out those more easily missed candidates. So, why continue reading

Humanising recruitment: Should recruitment return to the basics?

Posted under online recruitment on Friday, November 2, 2012 5 Comments

Remember when recruitment was all about building relationships? When it was about getting to know the candidates, their passions and their motivations? When the focus was on providing a great candidate experience? …What changed? The reliance on technology by today’s recruiter has seen huge transformations continue reading

How to Reduce your Time-to-Hire

Posted under employer advice, online recruitment on Monday, October 15, 2012 No Comments

HR Magazine recently reported if a vacancy hasn’t been filled within 72 days, there’s something wrong with it.  The research suggests employers need to fill job vacancies within 72 working days before people assume it’s a job no-one wants.  These results show now more than continue reading

Are job boards still relevant in a social media world?

Posted under general, online recruitment on Thursday, October 11, 2012 2 Comments

It’s astonishing to think how swiftly methods of recruiting staff have moved on in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with developments in both technology and wider public life. Both candidates and employers once depended on job notice boards in public places, which morphed continue reading

Tips for using CV databases to source candidates

Posted under online recruitment, webrecruit news on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1 Comment

As has been mentioned in previous webrecruit (http://www.webrecruit.co.uk) blog posts, effective staff recruitment does not just depend on sourcing candidates who are actively looking for work. That is not because of any deficiency in skills amongst such a group, but simply because adopting such a continue reading

A ‘What’s What’ Guide to Online Recruitment

Posted under employer advice, online recruitment on Friday, September 14, 2012 No Comments

Online recruitment can offer hiring managers one of the most powerful and cost-effective methods for sourcing high quality talent. But with so many resources and tools available, knowing what to use and how to use it can become confusing, not to mention, time-consuming.   Covering a wide continue reading

What’s the point in Pinterest for business?

Posted under online recruitment, social networking on Friday, July 20, 2012 No Comments

Pinterest has certainly caused a stir within the blogosphere of late. Statistics surrounding the image centric platform show unparalleled success in terms of user growth. In February of this year it was announced that the site had accumulated 10.4 million users, with its popularity outdoing continue reading

Why large organisations are using social media to recruit

Posted under employer advice, online recruitment, social networking on Friday, July 13, 2012 No Comments

You will have no doubt heard the word ‘brand’ bandied about a lot recently. Usually followed by the two biggest buzz words of the 21st century; social media. There’s no getting away from the fact that social media has taken the business world by storm recently. continue reading

Top 5 Apps For Job Hunters

Posted under job searching tips, online recruitment on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 No Comments

In today’s tight job market, the UK mobile broadband can put job hunters on the road to success. Frequently updated information and low costs make mobile broadband apps some of the best tools out there for job hunting. For very little money, job hunters can continue reading

Organisations face difficulties attracting professionals

Posted under online recruitment on Friday, August 26, 2011 No Comments

Many UK organisations continue to face difficulties in attracting professionals with the right skills despite high unemployment – according to a recent report*. Resourcing and Talent Planning 2011, published by CIPD and Hays, focused on the current recruitment market and highlighted issues facing employers. The continue reading