The power of Twitter starts to unveil when you understand how to use Twitter Lists in a variety of ways for both employer branding and sourcing of candidates. Understanding Basics You can choose to make your lists public or private, and you will find it is beneficial to make some private,...

Top 5 ‘Must Have’s’ Your Future Work Force Wants
By Anne-Marie Orrock The work force composition is facing major changes coming up in the future years. Recent research from Millennial Branding and Beyond.com, titled 'The Multi-Generational Job Search' highlighted the change in labour market composition in the future and what they are looking...

7 Key Things You Must Know About Your Candidates
Creating employer branding content for social media is just as much science as art. One of the key steps before you make any social recruitment branding content is to get very clear about your candidate audience. Many HR & recruitment professionals believe that a ‘candidate’ is a person who is...

Unsuccessful Applicants: Why HR SUCKS With Candidate Experience.
First I was horrified. Then I had to cringe with embarrassment. No wonder HR and recruiters get a bad wrap when it comes to recruitment. In recently reading an article titled ‘How To Respond To Unsuccessful Applicants’, I discovered just why HR and recruiters get branded with disparaging labels...

Trick Questions: Should You Use Them In An Interview?
Recently a journalist contacted me to get my opinion on some good trick questions to use in interviews. Their view was that interviews can get boring and to 'shake it up' a little, they wanted to offer readers of their business magazine options for 'out-of-the-box' questions for candidate...

Why Candidate Assessment Tools Don’t Work…
There’s no doubt recruitment is getting harder these days. In addition to traditional recruitment methods, such as SEEK, recruitment agencies and internal networks, you need to be on top of newer technologies, and increasing social media options. It all adds up to a higher mountain of...