I recently blogged about ‘being an agile recruiter’. [An Agile Recruiter – Are You? You Should Be!]. It focussed on the benefits of being an agile recruiter, how staff are often more agile than the business they work for and how the right tech can make you agile. This is a lovely follow up… and may resonate with you if you are a recruiter or a recruitment leader.

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As recruiter you’re probably sick of the squeaking online about clients being your competitors – well I think the threat to recruitment agencies this year is from candidates…

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I genuinely have no idea what the true stat of recruiters who are unemployed on LinkedIn is but I often come across recruiters (and mere mortal non-recruiters) who have no current role at the top of their profile on LinkedIn and thus look like they don’t have a job (and this results in their previous employer getting more visibility).

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Louise Triance from UK Recruiter has asked Lisa to run the keynote session at 16:30 0n 18 June for UK Recruiter.

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LinkedIn launched via their blog an upgrade to contacts on LinkedIn last month and I have been eager to get my paws on it. I have literally just got the change and am getting my head around it now. Here’s some things I’ve spotted that if you’re a recruiter you’re going to LOVE!

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Hubspot (bless them) blogged this morning about Lead Generation cards for Twitter – I got so excited I nearly dropped my skinny decaf caramel macchiato with sugar free syrup! Advertising your role and getting applications just got REALLY easy.

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Our roving reporter, Lisa Jones from Barclay Jones, went undercover recently to discover whether the reports of recruiters not needing vacancies any more were true.

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Agile – a very C20th word – a word that many businesses would love to be. The connotation? Ease of movement, ease of transaction, planning, strategy, iteration (not irritation), future. Your clients are very likely to be either agile or would love to be – but they definitely expect you to be. Are you? Is your technology enabling this, or disabling your agility?

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The habit of buying and hoarding is not just restricted to home life. I see it all the time in recruitment businesses too.   Kit that was bought for a number of reasons: To fix a problem, because their recruiters wanted it, or because the sales person gave them a great deal. Do you have, [...]

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Thanks to @BullhornReach for hosting the webinar entitled: Social Recruiting: Debunking 7 Common Myths and Misconceptions.

I tackled 7 myths. Plus there were takeaways and tips for each of these topics. So, if you are a recruiter and use social media (ie. nearly ALL recruiters) there’s something in this webinar for you. Watch it here…

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