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Insult your boss on Facebook, and then take them to court!

November 12, 2010 by Steph King

I blogged recently about candidates ruining their chances of securing a role due to their actions on social networking sites – namely Facebook. We have also heard about employees being fired due to theircomments on social networking sites. But now it seems that the tables are turning and employees are fighting back. But is this right?
On a long train journey yesterday I picked up a copy of the Metro and read a story about a paramedic in the US that [...]

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Facebook – damaging candidate’s chances. A true story.

August 19, 2010 by Steph King

I came across an article on HR Zone recently claiming that social media is feared by some graduate recruiters. Why? It can result in unsuccessful and unproductive employees and some stated that social media was actually dangerous for a company’s reputation if staff members publicly posted content on there. This is not to say that recruiters are not using it – plenty are and very successfully.  But what about the dangers of social media to potential candidates?

This got me thinking [...]

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Social media – a mum's perspective

August 2, 2010 by Tracey Dunn

So there I was – I had just about managed to get over the emotional draining of my 11 year old’s leaving assembly from primary school ( which included a back catalogue of all the kids from age 3 upwards on a big screen set to Greenday’s Wake Me Up When September ends…sob) – and now I was waving him and his 13 year old brother off to scout camp for eight days.

They were off to Cromer – no mobile phones allowed so no contact. [...]

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Social media in recruitment workshop

June 1, 2010 by Steph King

I attended the Social Media in Recruitment Workshop last week hosted by Peter Gold and what a day it was. I had agreed to help Peter on the day and turned up at the British Library early to help set up; after the initial problem of not being able to get into the British Library (the gates were all locked up at 8:30) I was responsible for registering the delegates along with Lisa Scales and Claire Dalton and by 9:30 [...]

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Social media – the darker side?

February 9, 2010 by Tracey Dunn

 

 

I had an e-mail shot the other day from a supplier to the recruitment industry.  They wanted to test the power of viral marketing and were offering an incentive.  All good stuff you might say – great marketing ploy – but then when I read on it actually left quite a nasty taste in my mouth. All you had to do was to mention the supplier on various social networks and you stood a chance of winning a [...]

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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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Recruitment – is it really that bad?!

December 1, 2009 by blueskypr

Whilst browsing Facebook earlier this week, I noticed that a Facebook friend of mine had joined a recruitment orientated group. Seeing as though I read and write about the subject all day, I clicked the link to have a closer look at the group, entitled “How did I end up in recruitment?” You might have guessed from the name that it’s not exactly a forum for praise about how great recruitment is. Here are a few examples.

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