The use of online recruitment sources appears to be unstoppable, as proven by LinkedIn passing its 200 million user mark – including 11 million people from the UK. According to a Jobsite Social Recruiting Survey from the US, 92% of employers use or plan to use social recruiting to help them source candidates, a significant… Read more »
We are looking forward to 2014, not just because we have turned 10 years old, but improvements to our existing products and the launching of new ones. How we have improved our current product portfolio Daxtra Parser: We have continued to improve our accuracy and coverage, and continue to be benchmarked as the… Read more »
The value of having a specialist skill is well known and professionals working in any industry or sector strive to hone their skills in specific areas whether as a result of personal interest or professional gain. What matters is that people are acutely aware that having a specialism will separate them from the crowd when… Read more »
How do you make a Talent Director fall in love with your product in ten minutes? A speed dating event organised by Reconverse, was one of our first chances to find out. Faced with a room full of prospects and only ten minutes to impress, our goal was to decipher exactly what the corporates… Read more »
The recruitment sector cut backs had left many HR teams struggling to manage with limited resources and funds. Thankfully, however, this trend is slowly changing and we are finally beginning to see some buoyancy in the market. While 22 per cent of organisations remain affected by budget limits, the pressure of quickly finding and engaging… Read more »
By now, we’ve all heard our industry’s excitement about Big Data. It’s the future, some people say. It’s going to revolutionise recruitment. Sure, that sounds wonderful. But at this stage, the excitement – while justified – is bordering on hype. I don’t aim to crush dreams or crash the party, but I think it’s… Read more »
How did you secure your last job? Chances are it wasn’t by walking into a bar and receiving a phone alert with your dream job. In fact it is almost certain that a stranger didn’t approach you, nor conduct a brief interview and you probably didn’t receive a formal offer by email the following morning…. Read more »
The benefits of Cloud computing come at a price There is no disputing that Cloud computing has changed the way global organisations operate. The technology has enabled organisations to act efficiently and usually at a reduced cost. Cloud computing modules can be deployed quickly and scaled up or down based upon software requirements and usage,… Read more »
If at first you don’t succeed …try and try again! Granted, a phrase we are all familiar with, but not necessarily one we’d want to attribute to the recruitment process. The fact is sometimes we have no choice. Recruitment processes differ from one organisation to the next,but they all have one thing in common –… Read more »
How well do you know your candidate? So you’ve got your basics inplace, you know their credentials, checked out their employment history andhave some inclination of the grades they got a few years back. Granted, a greatstart, but enough to convince both you and the client they’re the right personfor the job? Probably not. So… Read more »