Louise and I have had seriously hours of fun putting together our 10 Waste Your Lunch Hour Websites list as part of our 600 things series. It's impossible not to find something to keep you entertained. Go on, try Sporcle, the quiz website. See if you can name all the countries in the world in 15 minutes. I'd tell you my record but it's slightly shameful! If anyone would like to contribute a slightly more serious and genuinely useful list of interesting or useful things for recruiters (it could be helpful tips, useful people, brilliant books, fantastic resources, anything you can't live without), please email Louise.
It's not all been play thoguh this week and in the real world of working hard Louise has been speaking with Katharine Robinson who is running the Discover Sourcing event in September. You can read the interview here and scroll down to get your 20% discount code.
600 Interesting and Useful Things for Recruiters - Part 11
Social Media is an amazing phenomena, that has deep social influences around the way that we communicate and behave, but recruiters, both in house and agency side need to understand the rules of engagement better (social etiquette) or they will not only be wasting their time, energy and money, they could actually have the opposite effect of what was initially intended.
What if I told you that saying “rep” instead of “representative” in your job posting title might be the difference between receiving 40 candidates and receiving 55 candidates? Or that dropping the “s” in “human resources” might cost you 20 applicants?
Jobsite's latest quarterly recruitment review has recently been completed, and it shows an increasing job seeker reliance on mobile and digital resources to find their next role.
Would you like to know more about LinkedIn’s user demographics, mobile traffic, and LinkedIn’s visitor statistics broken down by country, city, and state? In this article, Glen Cathey compares the data from 2010 and 2011 with the data from 2013.
