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Ask James Caan – Issue 95
Dear Member, You regularly hear me discuss technology enhancing the way we identify and attract talent with the majority of recruitment activity now taking place online. The impact of digital media has paved a new way for recruitment; progressing from targeting the active jobseeker through traditional channels, such as job boards and high street ag ...Continue reading
Casting a wider net: using social media to build talent pools
As a hiring manager you take on the guise of a Kingfisher; dipping in and out of talent pools and hoping that your aim is, more often than not, accurate. Using this analogy, it is imperative that the pools in which you are hunting contain the right candidates, with which to choose from. Having a select amount of prime targets, that are both easily ...Continue reading
How to use your brand with social media to hire top talent
Today’s recruitment campaigns have demonstrated you don’t need to be a big company to create buzz around your brand. With more and more businesses recognising and leveraging social media to communicate their hiring messages, we’ve seen that recruitment advertising can take many forms. It’s no longer about the spray and pray approach; rather, today’ ...Continue reading
Tackling Age Discrimination in the Workplace: HR Best Practice
Would it surprise you to hear, according to the Department for Work and Pensions , age-related discrimination and stereotyping in the workplace remains firmly rooted in British society? Recent research supported this, unveiling there is ‘little evidence’ of UK employers taking proactive steps to engage and retain older workers according to Cranf ...Continue reading
The HR Professionals’ Performance Management Toolkit
Are you responsible for supervising other’s work? Do you struggle to motivate your employees’? Would you like to improve performance and results in your organisation? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, you may want to consider using a performance management system. Performance management is a term used to describe the holistic process of b ...Continue reading
Career progression more important than salaries
According to a recent report by online recruiter, webrecruit, career progression is valued more than salary in IT vacancies. The survey of over 500 job seekers who applied for IT roles in March 2012, found that over half (57%) would find career progression more attractive than salary in an IT vacancy. Salary came in second place (18%) in the surve ...Continue reading
webrecruit reaches LinkedIn milestone
Online fixed-fee recruiter, webrecruit, has today reached an astonishing 75,000 members in their LinkedIn Group: Transforming Recruitment Online. Set up in May 2009, the group has brought together leading figures in the online recruitment industry to discuss and share industry news, updates and best practice. The content of the group – including a ...Continue reading
CV clinic: Your questions answered
In the latest from the CV clinic, Lee Tonge provides his expertise for one reader wanting to maximise their job title. He highlights the importance of selling yourself to an employer. Hi, I think my main concern with my CV is that I have worked just under 4 years in my last role and despite taking on additional duties, my title did not change. T ...Continue reading
How to conduct a group interview
As a hiring manager, using a variety of methods to find a candidate that matches your role will always widen your success, whether that’s via a telephone interview , face-to-face or in a group situation. One of the major benefits of conducting a group interview is that it reduces the time normally spent interviewing multiple candidates one-to-one. ...Continue reading
CV Clinic – February 2012
This month in our latest CV clinic, Lee Tonge – the CV expert behind The CV Store – advises one reader on how to list previous experience in a way that will catch any hiring manager’s attention. Dear Sirs, I would like to know if it is necessary to mention all the roles I have done in my CV if I am looking for the Receptionist position? Will I be ...Continue reading

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Generating New Career Ideas

Start At The Beginning When you’re considering a career change the very best starting point I can suggest is for you to begin to capture all your career ideas in one place. Let’s call it an Ideas Bank. One possibility is a folder which you continue reading

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Ask James Caan – Issue 92

Dear Member, I’m often asked what job seekers need to do to effectively market their skills in such a tough climate. And this question isn’t from job hunters from one or two particular industries. I’ve had finance professionals, IT managers, sales people, marketers and customer continue reading

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IT recruitment tips: what attracts the best peopl...

Tasked with IT recruitment? If so, do you know how to increase your chances of attracting great candidates whilst promoting the benefits of working for your company? With the demand for the IT candidates increasing, ensuring your IT recruitment campaign gets off to the best continue reading