My book ‘Recruiting with Social Media’ out 3rd August

I’m glad to inform that my book Recruitment with Social Media, Social Media’s Impact on Recruitment and HR is out on 3rd August 2010, published by Que/Pearson Publication. You can buy a copy from Recruiting with Social Media (Que eStore). About the Book The book highlights the power of recruiting people with Social Media! Social [...]

Videos interviews with recruitment experts at #TruLondon

I had some really interesting conversations with people at #TruLondon unfortunately not all videos came out. Technology fail! Never the less some really interesting content  available below. Social Sourcing and Future of Blogging SourcerSrini mentions how he is uses social media for sourcing candidates. PunkRockHR good insight on the future of blogging. Innovative startup in Recruitment @James_Mayes [...]

Live streaming of #trulondon 19th Feb 2010

TruLondon is a social media recruitment unconference held on the 18th and 19th Feb at Incisive Media‘s offices in Soho London. 9.30am (GMT) onwards I will be streaming live video of the event. Online video chat by Ustream Broadcast schedule: 9.30 – 10.00 All tracks: Day One Learning 10.00 – 10.30 Video track from Deloitte’s [...]

‘LinkedIn opens its platform’, what does it mean for recruiters

The software development industry has been going on (see here and here) about how LinkedIn has just opened it’s platform via an API (Application Programming Interface). Companies can now build Twitter like applications for LinkedIn. This implies companies now have access to: Candidate Profiles including either the public view or the more detailed view the [...]

List of online communities to maximize recruitment potential

Often, finding the right candidates or customers require recruitment teams to go far and wide. For some customers or circumstances teams have to tap into communities which already exist e.g. Institute of Engineers, women in Space Research, CIOs in the insurance industry. Traditionally this could be an expensive, time intensive process and would require to [...]

Fuel business growth employ an intern/apprentice [kwiqq]

Investors and mentors always talk about the hockey stick in your business i.e. exponential rise. This hockey sticks in business can mean fantastic things like more profit, staff, clients etc but could also mean recruitment, marketing (to advertise the growth), sales (sustain the growth). All of which means a lot of work. With the current [...]