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My BBC Film: How To Sell Your Skills Online

Sirona Consulting

Last year I was asked by the BBC to make a short film for BBC WebWise – their website for sharing different advice online. The director wanted me to explain to viewers how social media can help people better present themselves, to aid their job searching online. Who knows what’s next on the film front? ;-).

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10 Answers to Your Burning Social, Boolean and Passive Questions

Social Talent

If you reach out to someone on an open platform like Twitter you’ll find the engagement rates are fantastic, providing you are on Twitter and use it actively. What advice can you give for people using Dice’s Open Web social recruiting platform? Candidates found through social sourcing are not always active.

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Recruiting on Instagram: 4 Companies Crushing It

Glassdoor for Employers

Using social media for recruiting purposes goes way beyond LinkedIn. recruiters used LinkedIn for social recruiting purposes last year, just 40 percent of job seekers did. Compare that with Facebook and Twitter, which were used respectively in 67 percent and 45 percent of job seekers’ searches.

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8 Juicy Recruiting News Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into – 9th March 2015

Social Talent

You Can Now Embed Twitter Video on Your Website. After launching it’s native video platform last month to the joy of marketers (and hopefully recruiters) everywhere, Twitter have just added the ability to embed Twitter-hosted videos on other sites. hQXoiqR8cR — S.W.A.T. Movie Stars in Stock Photos.

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

Social Talent

Twitter also saw significant user growth over the same period, just not quite on the same level as Instagram and Pinterest. LinkedIn was the only social media platform studied that actually saw its user base decrease slightly from 2014 to 2015: Facebook, of course, remains far and away the most widely-used social media platform.

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BUMPER EDITION: 13 Totally Unmissable Recruitment News Stories Unfolding this Week – 15th February 2016

Social Talent

Twitter Plans Changes To @Replies. In the company’s letter to shareholders, Twitter said that changes were coming to rules like the @reply and the.@name If Twitter made this change, people would always have 140 characters to use in their discussion no matter how many people are part of the thread. name syntax.

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Always Be Closing Almost Never Works In Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

The film not only helped propel Alec Baldwin to fame (for better or for worse), but it forever solidified the archetype of the overly pushy, overly aggressive sales guy willing to stop at nothing to win a deal. Social Recruiting: Success isn’t Conversions, It’s Conversations. May the Force Be With You.

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