Newsletter - ukrecruiter newsletter #625

18 November 2013

This week, we are launching our 7th Annual Recruitment Blog of the Year awards to recognise individuals and firms who blog around the subject of the recruitment industry in/from the UK, sponsored by Boomerang Funding and CV-Library. You can nominate a blog you love or your own site. Nominations close on 30th November. Then it’s to the judging. Details of the winning blogs will be published by mid December. So please nominate now! For more details and information on the categories see The UK Recruiter – Recruitment Blog of the Year 2013.

Last week saw our extremely successful Recruitment Conference take place. There were 14 sessions, covering all manner of recruitment related learning. We had nearly 150 attendees and it was standing room only for some of the sessions! If you didn't manage to make it to the event the team at BlueSky PR went to every session, took studious notes, and will be sharing them on Louise's Blog over the coming weeks. If you can't wait to read more about it have a look at this review of the event by Louise.

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5 Quick Tips to Help Recruiters and Sourcers Increase Candidate Response Rates

Taken from Sourcecon.com. Effective candidate engagement efforts will separate the good from the bad. Here are 5 tips to make the engagement process more efficient.

Use Google Voice to create a local number for the area code you are recruiting in.
Write compelling emails.
Leverage text messaging.
Use video to increase response rates.
Utilize a scheduling tool to coordinate meeting times.

The full article expands on and explains these tips.

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5 steps to successful recruitment planning

Job.ac.uk recently ran a survey to assess which media delivered the best quality candidates. In this article they share the five steps they have learnt for planning your recruitment strategy.

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Recruitment E-mail: What's Next?

An infographic from Bullhorn looking at the history and future of email in recruitment.

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Why HR Should Bet on Technology to Find the Best Talent

When finding the best talent – what do you use? Sparkhire reckon that HR should bet on technology – and this infographic explains why.

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How To Make Your Recruitment Day More Effective Using Social Media Technologies

Last week Andy Headworth shared a number of time and effort sharing tools and tricks at our Recruiter Conference and he summaries them on his blog for us here.

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Do LinkedIn Endorsements Really Matter?

What, really, is the value of endorsements on LinkedIn?

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Winners of the National Online Recruitment Awards 2013

As well as the Recruitment Conference, last week also saw the 13th National Online Recruitment Awards. The event was the busiest event so far with over 350 guests. Here are all the winners.

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Stats - Recruitment Trends Analysis for October 2013

The recruitment market remains on a high with another monthly increase in both Permanent and Temporary vacancies in October.

Looking closer at the top performing sectors - Utilities for the permanent jobs sector and Logistics, Distribution & Supply Chain for the temporary jobs market, had the strongest quarterly growth.

However, we did see a fall in applications per vacancy by 2.6%

For more detail, check out the monthly recruitment market analysis infographic from Broadbean.

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