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5 Ways to Engage Talent on Twitter

Social Talent

The second and final part of our Social Recruiting series is on Twitter recruitment. Recruiters should really hone in on this as the majority of candidates are passive. Twitter have recognised and responded to new user habits, acquiring short-form video sharing service Vine in 2012 for $30 million. Enter video.

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7 Eggs-citing Recruitment News Stories this Easter – 27 March 2016

Social Talent

Rally Point: A “LinkedIn For Veterans” Do you source for military Veteran candidates? The site was created back in 2012 by founders Yinon Weiss and Aaron Kletzing, as a “LinkedIn for Veterans”, and has since built a user base of roughly 722,000 (that’s about 50/50 veterans vs active service members).

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BUMPER EDITION: 9 Stories the Recruitment Industry is Buzzing About this Week – 24th August 2015

Social Talent

Social media dynamos Instagram and Pinterest nearly doubled their users between 2012 and 2015 , according to a new study — and Pinterest is winning. based think tank, surveyed 1,907 adults this spring to learn about their social media habits. Meanwhile, 28% of all adults who go online now use Instagram versus a mere 13% in 2012.

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7 Game-Changing Recruitment News Stories this Week – 15th August 2016

Social Talent

In recruitment news this week: Randstad Acquire Monster For a Cool $429 Million. Source: www.rappler.com. In quite possibly the biggest piece of recruitment news since Microsoft bought LinkedIn , Dutch firm Randstad Holding announced last week that it was acquiring Monster. Source: www.techcrunch.com.

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7 Juicy Recruitment News Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into – 16th May 2016

Social Talent

The internship ad was placed online by Creative Access , which was founded in 2012 to provide opportunities for paid internships for people of black, Asian and other non-white ethnic backgrounds. Outraged callers rang in to vent their fury on LBC to host Katie Hopkins, who had earlier tweeted an image of the BBC job ad.

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6 Fascinating Recruitment News Stories You Must Read this Week – 24th October 2016

Social Talent

Introducing “Hound”: A Brand New FREE Sourcing Tool. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Hound , a great new Chrome Extension by the people at Jobjet that allows you to find emails, phone numbers and social data on candidates while in numerous sites (including LinkedIn).

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The Best LinkedIn Account for Recruiters

Prominence

I used it off and on for around six months and then (stupidly) provided honest feedback that with the exception of InMail access I saw very little value in having a Recruiter account. Not surprisingly my Recruiter account was quickly transferred to someone else in my team!