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How HR have responded to social recruiting. Are you one of these?

  Social recruiting is challenging companies - whether they be recruitment companies or corporates - at many different levels within recruitment. Recruiters are naturally at the frontline and therefore get much of the flak for either doing social recruiting well, indifferently or not at all, whether it is their fault, or in fact their managers […]

When is a visible tattoo too visible for a hiring manager?

A while ago I wrote a post titled ‘Would you hire someone with a visible tattoo?’ - and (unsurprisingly I guess) it still gets a load of traffic every single week. This is a question that comes up regularly with companies as they try to deal with the more and more people that now have […]

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Bad things to say at a job interview by MockTheWeek comedians [video]

I came across this funny video over the weekend. It is from the BBC programme Mock The Week, and I guess could be described as satirical comedy on the edge! This is a bunch of comedians and their ideas of bad things to say at an interview. Some answers not to be listened to by […]

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Social media privacy goes both ways in the interview process!

  The thorny subject of social media privacy and online candidate checking raised its head a few weeks ago (again), when I had a discussion (well you can call it that!) with an HR Manager who was niaive at best. I don't need to go into a lengthy discussion about this, as it is to […]

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Is your HR Manager more Miss Marple or HR 2.0? [Fun infographic]

Is it always right to pick on HR, and make them the butt of jokes and mirth? Well, to be honest, yes on some occasions, because some of them should - quite frankly - be in a different career, like flower arranging or knitting needle design - male and female for that matter!! (Even those […]

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HR, Recruitment & Resourcing - should they be separated and aligned with marketing?

  One of the chapters in a social media in recruitment report I have been commissioned to write, looks at what part HR play in social media recruitment. I recently asked the question in the excellent LinkedIn Group, The HR Professionals Network, and got a very interesting answer from  Isabelle Hung , a strategic talent […]