social media gurus – tru or false!
I was motivated to write this by reading some tweets from @mattalder – always an insightful tweeter and blogger, a true social media expert and occasionally grumpy old man ( no offence matt – you are probably younger than me!) He has been commenting recently on the amount of ‘social media experts’ there seem to [...]
Continue Reading →Social media – the darker side?
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 [...]
Continue Reading →Happy Christmas from BlueSky
Just a quick post to wish all readers a very happy Christmas and New Year from the BlueSky team. Today is our last day in our office as we move to pastures new (only up the road, but still it’s a new start for a new year with lots more room for us to grow). [...]
Continue Reading →Recruitment – is it really that bad?!
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 [...]
Continue Reading →Recruitment and corporate image…yawn!
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 [...]
Continue Reading →If you want to work at Google…
…you’ll have to get through these interview questions first. These have been doing the rounds over the last couple of weeks, but I thought I would share a few of my favourites in case you had missed them, or wanted to take another look. Some questions are designed to test creativity, others are intended to test [...]
Continue Reading →Rewarding recruiters – is it all just about numbers?
Now here’s a debate. Should recruiters be rewarded solely on their billings? Should big billers be promoted into senior roles bcause they are big billers? Are big billers always the best managers?
Continue Reading →TECHNOLOGY – FRIEND OR FOE ?
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 [...]
Continue Reading →WHO CARES ABOUT CANDIDATES
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 [...]
Continue Reading →#PR FAIL?
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 [...]
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