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How to recruit on LinkedIn in 2013
- Published on 7 Jun 2013
- Mark Gray
LinkedIn is now the preferred choice for searching for talent. US research reveals 93% of recruiters visit this network before they go anywhere else.
How to find the perfect ICT professional for your company
- Published on 22 May 2013
- Karen Ekron
The South African information and communication technologies (ICT) sector is well established and cutting edge. Because our ICT market is so sophisticated, the type of candidate you will need to recruit to fill positions in this industry need to be highly qualified and “tech savvy”. Very often, top candidates are not actively listed in the job market, which means that searching on conventional e-recruitment sites will not give you the results you were hoping for. This means you need to find these candidates elsewhere. The question is: Where?
Candidates will do practically anything to get the job
- Published on 25 Apr 2013
- Ivan Israelstam
You need to trust your employees. If you don’t, you shouldn’t have hired them in the first place. For example, you need to know that your employees, and prospective employees, have the qualifications and experience they say they do. You also need to be sure that your employees don’t misuse the knowledge they acquire in your company for their own personal gain.
#Recruiterlessons from the Savage Truth Tour
- Published on 21 May 2013
- Natalie Singer
More than 300 South African recruiters joined the Federation of African Professional Staffing Organisation (APSO) at the Savage Truth seminars held in Cape Town, Durban and Joburg earlier this month. The feedback showed that the delegates got everything they hoped and more, and you only have to look at the Tweets that were flying during the seminars to see that Greg’s experiences and insights really resonated with local recruiters.
Social media can be used in business for more than just recruitment
- Published on 19 Mar 2013
- Lia Marus
I, and many of our contributors, have talked quite extensively about how social media can be used in recruitment (read more here). However, we haven’t touched on the fact that social media can also be used effectively in other aspects of HR in your business.
Get serious about social recruiting and find the good candidates faster
- Published on 7 May 2013
- Mark Gray
Social recruiting brings about a powerful new way of finding hard-to-reach candidates as talent increasingly shifts online. And if you want to get to these candidates, you need to embrace social recruiting.
How to create a job description
- Published on 14 Mar 2013
- Belinda Gentle
Last month, we featured an article from Alison Eloff dealing with what she, as a candidate, would like to see in a job description. Belinda Gentle, recruiter from Gallant Recruitment tells us what companies should put on their job descriptions.
Make your interviews count
- Published on 3 May 2013
- Cheryl-Anne André
Few organisations would risk making an important decision without first gathering and analysing critical information. Yet many do every day when they make un-informed decisions about the people they hire or promote – and these decisions can affect the organisation for years to come.
Latest criminal background check technology
- Published on 7 Mar 2013
- Andre Jansen
"What is the background of the person I am looking to employ?" This is the first question you must ask when you recruit.
