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6 Recruitment News Stories to Kick-Off 2016 – 4th January 2016

Social Talent

That’s because according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) recently released 8th annual report on the recruitment industry’s performance , we can see that total recruitment industry turnover increased by 9.7% in 2014/15 to reach £31.5

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A Recruiter’s Handbook Guide to Snapchat

Social Talent

So today, we’re going to explore the merits of an up and coming social app that combines both mobile technology and visual images and discuss why we believe it will be one of the best social recruiting tools of 2015. How can Snapchat be used for recruiting? What is Snapchat?

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7 Incredibly Intriguing Recruitment News Stories this Week – 6th June 2016

Social Talent

That said, the company has improved since the end of 2014, when it was 79% male and 21% female worldwide. However, despite an improvement in diversity figures in GitHub from 2014 to 2016, TechCrunch.com are quick to point out that only one group seem to be prospering from their current diversity efforts: white women.

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Weirdly Founder & CEO Dale Clareburt on Getting to the Heart of Cultural Fit

MightyRecruiter

Weirdly was founded in 2014. I used to be in traditional recruitment – I actually still have my own recruitment agency – and I was speaking to my customers a lot. Asking a candidate what they can personally improve upon is a little bit better because then you are assessing whether a person is motivated to grow.

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9 Industry-Rocking Pieces of Recruitment News this Week – 11th April 2016

Social Talent

Thus saving candidates from receiving a whole load of requests from recruiters who may not be suitable. In the future, ERE.net’s Todd Davis sees this tool being able to take all the data that has come in via these assessments and grade recruiters, which should (in theory) help recruiters become better at their craft.

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The Talent Shortage Survival Guide

Recruiting Daily

A year ago, about the same number of HR professionals felt filling positions was getting harder (up incrementally from 34% in 2014), but in 2014, fully 28% felt they thought hiring was getting easier, versus 8% today. Could Social Recruiting Solve the Talent Shortage? Trust me – these only scratch the surface.

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Staffing Experts’ Bold & Ridiculous Predictions for 2013

Staffing Talk

Bill Boorman, master social recruiter and organizer of #Tru (The Recruiting Unconference). Safe: Big Year for Social, Mobile, Content, and Skills. HR folks will continue to fear the consequences of social, whilst appreciating the potential. Bold: The Death of Jobs, CPUs, and Social Cross-Posting.