With fierce competition for jobs opportunities, we have been keen to see what impact the social media space is having on recruitment. There is no doubt that job seekers are more prepared to be creative in order to gain a competitive edge in the job market. Part of that creativity is being focused on social [...]

Europe’s largest annual online recruitment conference returns to central London on 26th January 2012. We have an exclusive discount for MyPeopleBiz readers! The 10th anniversary conference – “Online Recruitment 2012: The Year Ahead” will focus on  online recruitment strategy, candidate attraction, mobile, online law and global social media, You’ll hear from other industry leading speakers as well as network [...]

Following on from the recent post, Recruitment Portals are here to stay; we have collated a number of the most common misconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding their use and value. We ask the question: “Do I really need this?”   Misconception 1: “We are a small company and we don’t recruit much!” A very small company [...]

Patrick Hosking in the Times 17th November wrote that Lazy bosses add insult to injury for jobseekers, this really caught my eye. Mostly because I have spent a week talking to people about employer brand, the importance of a great career site, how essential it is to carefully nurture your relationship with your jobseekers, etc. [...]

Talking to recruiter friends recently, it was interesting to note the split in opinions over applicant tracking systems, recruitment portals and all things that involve more effort than just simply sending an email to an employer to make a candidate introduction. On one hand sat the “dead against”, they don’t want Recruitment Portals and they [...]