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Social Media in Recruitment Conference

April 26, 2010 by Steph King

After a busy first few days here at BlueSky, I attended the Social Media in Recruitment Conference last week at the British Library. The event was hosted and organised by Mike Taylor of Web-Based-Recruitment.com and was attended by over 200 delegates. I had heard from my colleagues that the 2009 conference had been a success and provided some very useful information on Social Media, and as I will be concentrating on this area I was keen to attend and see what I could get out of [...]

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Keep an eye on your own PR

January 18, 2010 by blueskypr

I came across a newly launched website today, which I had been following on Twitter. Judgethejob.com allows you to submit anonymous reviews about what it’s like to work at a particular company. Eek scary huh? Well, if you’ve got a lot of disgruntled ex-employees, yes. But let’s be honest, it’s not like they don’t have any avenues to vent their frustrations already is it?

With the rapid expansion of social media and other internet offerings, organisations now have more tools than [...]

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The power of the tweet

December 10, 2009 by blueskypr

Twitter – it’s like Marmite. It seems that you either love it or you hate it; or maybe more accurately you either use and benefit from it or you’re confused / uninterested / sceptical (perhaps all three.) I have certainly come across people from both camps, however the majority of recruitment professionals that I meet and talk to about Twitter give me that ‘look’ as if to say “I’m not convinced by your ‘Gen Y’ ways”. They just [...]

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Recruitment and corporate image…yawn!

November 29, 2009 by Tracey Dunn

I look at loads of recruitment websites – and loads of recruitment brochures. And most of them are deadly dull. Now I know, as someone who has a lot of involvement in producing content for such things, that’s a pretty controversial statement. But it’s true.  And it’s mainly because a lot of recruiters all say the same thing. Leaders in our field, passionate about client service, yadda yadda yadda.

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Work vs the dinner party

November 24, 2009 by blueskypr

The latest headline to catch my eye was this: “Hosting a dinner party is ‘more stressful than going to work’”. Now, I can perhaps understand if you have a very easy job (was going to insert example here but wouldn’t want to offend any dog walkers etc) or you’re arranging a dinner party for 500 celebrity guests. But I did ask myself how making the table look pretty and looking up some Jamie Oliver recipes is more taxing [...]

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#PR FAIL?

October 21, 2009 by Tracey Dunn

Scrolling down my twitter feed as I do looking for things of interest I came across a tweet from Tim Weber, the business editor for BBC news and radio which made me smile. His department had just received what he described as the most stupid PR call ever: “Hello, do you publish advertorials – am I through to the right department at the BBC?”   And then having browsed the open questions on Linked In in the public relations category, I [...]

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