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6 Career resolutions for 2014
- Published on 8 Jan 2014
- Vanessa Raath
The festivities have finally died down and a lot of you will be a few weeks into sober-January. It’s now time to focus on your career resolutions for 2014, or to advise your staff members about their career path quandaries. Here are a few suggestions. I suggest you write these down and put quarterly calendar reminders in place so you remember to review them.
Exam room to boardroom: should graduate recruitment be your business priority?
- Published on 12 Dec 2013
- Kim Dowdeswell
According to the SAGRA Employer Survey, graduate vacancies are set to increase by 9.8% in 2014. However, despite recruiters continuing to receive record volumes of applications for graduate roles, we frequently hear from employers that there is a shortage of high-calibre graduate applicants with the right skills.
Using Twitter to recruit in 140 characters or less
- Published on 12 Nov 2013
- Mark Gray
Twitter is one of the fastest-growing social networks in South Africa, expanding by 129% to reach 5.5 million users by August 2013. That is an increase of more than 250 000 new members per month over the last year. Looking at Twitter use across the African continent, 60% of people are in their 20s, 57% accesses Twitter via their mobiles and 22% trolls Twitter for job opportunities. This makes Twitter an increasingly attractive network for recruitment in Africa.
Executing a social recruitment strategy is only the start
- Published on 28 Nov 2013
- Mark Gray
Pushing the big red ‘go-live’ button on a social recruitment strategy is not the end of the process, but rather the starting point of the engagement. There are a lot more steps you need to go through before you can go live with your social recruitment strategy.
Facebook recruitment is here
- Published on 7 Nov 2013
- Mark Gray
Facebook’s growing focus on recruitment will usher in a new era in online talent search as companies can now access more than 1.15 billion active users on the world’s largest social media site.
How to recruit young, graduate talent with Mxit
- Published on 21 Nov 2013
- Mark Gray
Mobile recruitment is taking off worldwide with Google reporting that one in five searches (this includes job searches) are now done on a mobile device. In South Africa - where about 40 million people now own a handset, cellphones are a powerful marketing channel. With mobile access to the Internet growing, targeting talent on the go will become essential in recruitment strategies, and Mxit is the ideal platform to do this on.
WORDS are KEY when you design a winning LinkedIn profile
- Published on 7 Oct 2013
- Penny de Villiers
Google has revolutionised our lives, giving us the information we need 24/7. But it has also taught us to see the world through the eyes of others and not just ourselves. Google now provides us with accurate information about “what words people use when looking for information”. Those words are termed ‘keywords’.
What are the benefits of an applicant tracking system?
- Published on 15 Nov 2013
- Mark Gray
While large companies will often look to their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to assist with the recruiting process, they should rather be considering the benefits of using a dedicated application tracking system (ATS).
Change your strategy for graduate recruitment
- Published on 26 Sep 2013
- Kate Dikgale-Freeman
Let’s face it: recruitment strategies for traditional positions in business can still rely on traditional recruitment methods and job portals. However, when you are dealing with Gen Y graduates you need to adopt a whole new strategy.
