Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Social Network Ownership – Tug of War?

Had an interesting chat with a recruitment agency earlier this week regarding their consultants and LinkedIn. Firstly hats off to them for pushing the use of LinkedIn as hard as they are, it’s a recruiters gold mine if you engage and use all aspects of the site/network, we receive a lead on average once a [...]

Social Network Ownership – Tug of War?
Monday, August 9, 2010

Social Media Inception

Over the weekend I finally went and saw Inception. Unless you have been living under a rock you know this movie has something to do with dreams, and stealing them. On the surface that is initially what it is about, however as the movie progresses the key plot is planting an idea in someone’s dream/subconscious [...]

Social Media Inception
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Mobile and Recruitment – The Future Report

The Future of Mobile Recruitment report is the result of a roundtable co-hosted by Jobsite and Allthetopbananas.com in London in May 2010 with some of the leading brands involved in mobile, including Google and Microsoft. You can download the report below, here though are some key findings: More people now access social networking sites via [...]

Mobile and Recruitment – The Future Report
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Recruiting in 2021

About eleven years ago Job Boards burst on to the scene to end the demise of print advertising. Whilst that has not entirely occurred, it certainly has made a massive dent in to the once prominent employment sections of the Saturday paper. But what of eleven years from now? Social Media, or Social Recruiting as [...]

Recruiting in 2021
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Some reasons why you should be considering Social Recruiting

This won’t be the world’s longest list – I could sit here for the next 3 hours and list every reason I can think of, but I won’t. I just want to make some clear observations and highlight my thinking around a Social Recruiting strategy, which combines with your current sourcing techniques to add value [...]

Some reasons why you should be considering Social Recruiting
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Twitter – Some tips to build your network

Gaining valued Twitter followers and building your Twitter network is hard work and there is no exact science. I have listed below what I think are some straight forward things you can do to build a stronger relevant network on Twitter. Create your account so it can be found. Keywords in Bio are crucial. Register [...]

Twitter – Some tips to build your network
Monday, January 11, 2010

Video and Recruitment – How and Why

After today’s show with Bill Boorman regarding video usage in recruitment, it dawned one me that the general view of video use is fairly narrow in terms of alternative areas of use outside of Employer Branding and Video Resumes (I hate this term but for ease of explanation for now). Many people scoff at the [...]

Video and Recruitment – How and Why
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Job Ads – Are you a sheep or unique?

Firstly I have to apologise. I would like to apologise to all of my previous clients over the past 8 years that I have given advice to, on how to write an online job ad. I would also like to apologise on behalf of all of the job boards that are spewing out the same [...]

Job Ads – Are you a sheep or unique?
Social Network Ownership – Tug of War?
Posted on Aug 18
by Justin Hillier in Featured Post
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Social Network Ownership – Tug of War?

Had an interesting chat with a recruitment agency earlier this week regarding their consultants and LinkedIn. Firstly hats off to them for pushing the use of LinkedIn as hard as they are, it’s a recruiters gold mine if you engage and use all aspects of the site/network, we receive a lead on average once a...

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Like or dislike this use of Twitter?
Posted on Aug 12
by Justin Hillier in Social Recruiting
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Like or dislike this use of Twitter?

Not sure if I like this or not? http://bit.ly/aguu3S Have a look at let me know what you think. It’s cheeky and cheap (the bit I like I think), missing the point of social media entirely, and totally not what this agency should be using Twitter for. I’m sure they have heard of Seek, so...

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Social Media Inception
Posted on Aug 09
by Justin Hillier in Featured Post, Social Recruiting
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Social Media Inception

Over the weekend I finally went and saw Inception. Unless you have been living under a rock you know this movie has something to do with dreams, and stealing them. On the surface that is initially what it is about, however as the movie progresses the key plot is planting an idea in someone’s dream/subconscious...

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The Social Sofa – Michael Specht

The Social Sofa – Michael Specht

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9. August 2010Read More
You Are The New Dork

You Are The New Dork

There isn’t really much I can say about this video other then I was in stitches the whole way through it. Watch and...
6. August 2010Read More
Social Recruiting Video Tip Carnival

Social Recruiting Video Tip Carnival

Social Recruiting is still developing , and some countries, let alone companies are further ahead then others. Australia for me it seems is still waiting and watching. So I had an idea……Lets help them and everyone else out there with some tips. All I ask is 30 seconds of your...
5. August 2010Read More
Is Social Media a Fad? I think NOT!!!

Is Social Media a Fad? I think NOT!!!

I have been showing a few clients this fantastic video of late, and to put it simply, it has been blowing their minds away. It is the second video in the social media revolution series. There really is no doubting that social media IS NOT A FAD. With the statistics...
29. July 2010Read More
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