Newsletter - ukrecruiter newsletter #604

11 June 2013

You've probably noticed us talking about next Tuesday's technology event. If you still aren't sure if it's for you here are Five Fab Reasons to Attend plus 20 more great reasons (our exhibitor profiles) AND some ideas to consider if you are looking for a new recruitment database but not sure where to start. If you are a recruiter considering the technology options out there you still have time to sign up to attend.

Part five of 600 things today and I'm on the look out for contributers again. So if you know of 10 especially brilliant cold calling opening lines or have 10 amazing recruiters that you follow on Twitter please let us know and we will give you full credit and glory! Alternatively, please have a look at the available topics and see if there's anything you like there or if you have a relevant topic we haven't thought of please let us know!

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600 Interesting and Useful Things for Recruiters - Part 5

Here are the next two parts of our 600 interesting and useful things (all being shared though Louise’s Blog throughout the rest of the year). Have fun reading them!

10 Recruitment clichés that are actually true
Supplied by Luke Schanche of Astbury Marsden

10 tips for using twitter as a recruiting tool
Supplied by Katrina Fox of Peters-Fox

If you would like to contribute a list of ten things please email Louise for the available topics and in return you’ll get fame and glory (and full credit)!

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"I have LinkedIn, so why do I need a recruiter?"

“So you are in Rec-to-Rec? Well you are screwed now LinkedIn is here. I mean, why would any decent recruiter need to use you to find a job when they can do it all themselves?” Luke Collard at The Written Reference answers this question - which applies to any recruiter.

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Just who do recruiters think they’re kidding?

Stephen compares job boards to websites such as Amazon and YouTube and suggests that job sites have a lot to learn.

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The Biggest Threat to Agency Recruiters is Now the Candidate

Lisa Jones suggests that perhaps the candidates themselves are now the biggest threat to the agency recruitment market. Why?

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Social Recruiting: How To Recruit with Twitter Trends

Jim, a self-confessed Twitter geek, looks at how to use Twitter's trending topics as a recruitment tool.

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Does fee splitting make you look like a bad recruiter?

Opinion is certainly divided when it comes to whether fee splitting is acceptable practice in recruitment. Dave Hume at the IoR puts forward the argument for fee splitting.

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Stats - Most Popular Websites in Business and Finance - Employment and Training ranked by Visits Share - Month of May 2013

	Websites	Visits Share
1	Linkedin	20.55%
2	Indeed UK	10.88%
3	Reed	4.84%
4	TotalJobs	4.14%
5	TES Connect	3.34%
6	NHS Jobs	3.05%
7	jobrapido UK	2.99%
8	Jobsite UK	2.41%
9	CV Library	2.06%
10	Monster UK	1.76%
11	Guardian.co.uk Jobs	1.44%
12	Simply Hired	0.87%
13	Job is Job United Kingdom	0.86%
14	Direct Gov - Universal Jobmatch	0.77%
15	JobsToday	0.71%
16	jobs.ac.uk	0.66%
17	BranchOut	0.65%
18	fish4jobs	0.62%
19	s1jobs.com	0.55%
20	indeed	0.54%

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