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Social Media Tips: Google +

January 31, 2012 by Andie Hill

In our last newsletter, we handed out some tips on how to use Facebook as a great way to find and engage with both clients and candidates. This time we’re looking at how Google + can help to grow your recruitment business. There’s little doubt that Google+ has had a phenomenal start with over 90 million members [...]

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Using LinkedIn? Then use it properly!

December 12, 2011 by Steph King

It’s all very well registering on LinkedIn, but if you don’t use it correctly then you may as well have saved yourself the time and not bothered at all.  It still amazes me how many people fail to spend the time filling in their profile properly.  So why is it so important? If you want [...]

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Social Media Tips: Facebook

November 28, 2011 by Steph King

In our last newsletter, we handed out some tips on how to use Twitter to help grow your recruitment business. This time, we’re looking at how Facebook can also serve as a great way to find and engage with both clients and candidates. When setting up your Facebook page, make sure that you create a [...]

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Twitter: Uniting a nation

November 11, 2011 by Vickie Collinge

Today marked the 93rd anniversary of the the first Armistice Day, and as people across the UK prepared to pay their respects in the annual two minute silence, I found myself asking colleagues a rather odd question: will there be a Twitter silence as well? To find the answer to this question I turned to Twitter [...]

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: my take on social media in recruitment

October 28, 2011 by Tracey Dunn

  I have attended two recruitment in social media events recently and although I thought I was fairly social media savvy – I definitely learned some interesting new stuff showing that you can indeed teach an old dog new tricks! The first was the UK Recruiter and  HB RIDA Directors’ Networking Event. The first presentation [...]

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Is good customer service dead and buried?

October 20, 2011 by Steph King

You only have to glance online to hear nightmare stories of poor customer service, and like most of us I have had my fair share. Only last week I had the ‘pleasure’ of flying Ryanair and experienced its awful service. Whilst I understand the phrase ‘you get what you pay for’ – surely speaking to [...]

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Social media and the death of first impressions

September 16, 2011 by Vickie Collinge

Having spent my first few weeks in a new role meeting new colleagues and clients I have had a lot of time to think about first impressions, particularly the old saying “you only get one first impression”.  In the business world first impressions are vital, mess that up and you could lose important opportunities in [...]

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Social Media Tips: Twitter

September 8, 2011 by Andie Hill

In our last newsletter, we handed out some tips on how to use LinkedIn to help grow your recruitment business. This time, we’re looking at how Twitter can also serve as a great way to find and engage with both clients and candidates. Fill out your Twitter bio and upload a picture. A profile with [...]

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Case Study: Handle Recruitment

September 8, 2011 by Andie Hill

The successful social media campaign The company Handle Recruitment is the leading recruitment consultancy for the media and entertainment industries. With more than 30 years’ experience, Handle has grown to encompass the wider demands of the increasingly complex media and entertainment arena. It is the only consultancy to have divisions dedicated to providing permanent, temporary, [...]

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There’s a drumming inside my head …and it’s social media

September 2, 2011 by Tracey Dunn

I have just returned from just under three weeks away.  I had a great time travelling around the States.  And as I always do when I am on holiday, I take my blackberry but I turn off data roaming. No e-mail, no Twitter, no Facebook…. and definitely no logging on to free wifi ..nothing.  And [...]

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