Turning Interns into Recruits
Turning Interns into RecruitsGreat internships can make great people and the difference in attitude between your average undergraduate before and after eight weeks in industry is remarkable. Quality...
View ArticleAttracting Speculative Applications Through Social Media
Attracting Speculative Applications Through Social Media The demands of twenty-first century businesses aren’t always easy to forecast and keeping your workforce flexible is one of the most effective...
View ArticleWriting Tips for Corporate Recruitment Sites
Writing Tips for Corporate Recruitment Sites Words really are the only way to tell a story, but they aren’t easy tools to manipulate. Copy on corporate recruitment sites tends to fall into two...
View ArticleRecruiting Veterans
Recruiting VeteransI invited Thomas Jones to write a guest post for us today about veterans and recruitment. Have you considered targeting this group with a dedicated recruitment website? Let us know,...
View ArticleGrowing Your Social Media Network
Growing Your Social Media NetworkThere is so much potential to use social media for recruitment, but whatever you say or do, all of it will fall flat if you don’t have the right audience. Many firms...
View ArticleKeeping Things Clear: Developing Dependable Interns
Whatever we’d like to believe, interns often don’t know quite what to expect from the internships they apply for. However good the copy on your recruitment pages or the open days you run, interns...
View ArticleCandidate Screening with Social Media
Most graduates are aware that corporates sometimes use social media to screen candidates before giving them an interview, but the reality is that very few do anything about it. A quick glance at a...
View ArticleTwo-Way Tweeting: Interaction Online
It’s tempting and surprisingly common to see big companies who think of social media as something of a noticeboard; a place to pin adverts and interesting news and leave it there for anyone who...
View ArticleGap Year Interns: The New Graduates?
The gap year is a relatively new phenomenon and, despite a few strange years during the transition to the new tuition fee regimes, it’s certainly still the minority of students who take the opportunity...
View ArticleForging New Networks: Facilitating Intern Interaction
The relationship between interns and full-time staff is well known and well documented and there’s a distinct learning relationship that both firms and interns really value during their time in any...
View ArticleOffering work experience? 9 key tips
I asked Alice, a sixth-form student spending a week with us for work experience, to look at the websites of companies offering work experience to people like her. This is what she found… Lots of...
View ArticleHow International is your Social Media?
The web is ‘world wide’, right? Well, yes, in theory; everyone can access almost anything at any time, all over the world. Providing you have the right security settings and a wifi connection, the...
View ArticleGetting Lost in Cyberspace: Giving Your Social Media Permanence?
It’s taken some time, but most companies now have at least some sort of social media presence and, particularly in recruitment, there’s a tangible cost to not having a social media presence. Of course,...
View ArticleEthics and Choices in Social Media Recruitment
Traditionally, recruitment has been about nothing more than finding the best candidate for the job. However, in recent years we’ve seen a lot more time, attention and column inches dedicated to the...
View ArticleDo You Trust Your Social Media?
Students are burdened with a lot of stereotypes and though some of them are most definitely true, many of them are just myths. Aside from the obvious, students are well known for being one of the...
View ArticleFilling the House: Guaranteeing Good Event Attendance
It’s tough to walk through any university campus without spotting at least some flyer, poster or even a live event demonstrating how competitive the graduate job market is at the moment. Though this...
View ArticleBetween Presence and Pretence: Catching Social Media Trends
It was always predicted amongst the tech world that brands like Facebook and Twitter would take off and they have rapidly become essential tools for recruiters. However, the success of these brands...
View ArticleClean Up Your Application Form
The job application is something that becomes pretty familiar to most final-year students and the volume of forms the average graduate completes is quite outstanding. Given that the average form...
View ArticleFive Myths of Remote Interviews
There’s no reason not to be embracing all the potential that social media tools like Skype, LinkedIn and Twitter offer those in recruitment and they are immensely useful not just for generating...
View ArticleCreative Exposure: Getting Seen on Campus
The time really is now for graduate recruiters and in universities all over the UK the drive is on to pick up the top talent. However, unless you’ve been really hot off the mark, you’re almost certain...
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