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Case Study: Using LinkedIn to tackle business issues

April 3, 2012 by Vickie Collinge

The Company

Foyne Jones is a specialist recruiter of sales, managerial and executive appointments within the construction supplies and manufacturing sectors. With a background of professional sales within organisations such as Travis Perkins and Jewson, founders Jonathan Foyne and Peter Jones launched the company in 2003 in order to utilise their specialist sector knowledge.

The Challenge

Having recognised there is a lack of females in the construction supplies and merchants industry, Foyne Jones wanted to look at ways of addressing the issue and attracting [...]

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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 was from Sophie Relf the Head of Marketing Strategy at Guardian Jobs.  While I didn’t actually agree with a lot of her comments (‘social media is a walled [...]

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Recruiter Q&A

June 15, 2011 by blueskypr

For some recruitment businesses, the decision to undertake PR can be a hard one. Recruitment is hugely result driven and ROI is easily measurable. PR is different, and can take some time to see results. With this in mind, we thought we’d feature a Q&A with a recruiter who uses PR, and why they do so. This edition we speak to Adrian Kinnersley, MD of multi sector professional recruiter Twenty Recruitment Group

Q: Why do you use PR?

 A: We use PR to [...]

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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 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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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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TECHNOLOGY – FRIEND OR FOE ?

November 1, 2009 by Tracey Dunn

If I read one more article about how technology is going to put traditional recruitment firms out of business, I think I might weep (with frustration). I have a few grey hairs ( well quite a lot actually) and I get so bored with the same old scaremongering thats trotted out during every recession! Now don’t get me wrong – I’m a big fan of technology. But, as I pointed out in my last post, it has to [...]

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WHO CARES ABOUT CANDIDATES

October 26, 2009 by Tracey Dunn

I was chatting to Alan Whitford recently of RCEuro .

To any innocent eavesdropper it would have sounded like an episode of grumpy old men/woman. You see Alan and I are from the old school of recruiters – before technology, before faxes – hell even before electronic typewriters. But during the last twenty odd years one thing has remained constant – the complaint from candidates about the candidate experience.

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