Alexa.com is a great site which shows the rankings of websites around the world.

It’s worth keeping up to date on which ones are at the top, especially if your strategy part relies on the rankings of sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter etc… You may even want to know how yours ranks?

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I attended Louise’s event last year on recruiter CRM and systems and was part of the panel answering recruitment decision makers’ questions about recruitment tech. Louise has asked me to attend in May’s event and run a session on social media.

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I recently read an article entitled Leverage your CRM to its full potential. To say I loved it is an understatement. We work on all sorts of CRM projects and this article really “nailed it” for me. But as I always add my two-pennies worth, I thought I would here…

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So, you run your own business, you are a director of the department responsible for IT, or you are an IT Manager: you have outsourced your support to an IT Support business (so many of your are – and focussing your attentions on the running of the business, rather than the tech supporting it… good call!) But how do you extract yourself from them if things go bad?

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The ICO recently published its annual track on data protection and the awareness of it. Amazingly 59% of the UK public have major concerns about how their data is being handled, so if you have a business that handles data, what are you doing to calm those fears, which can only help you relate to and interact with your customers better?

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Do you have an intranet? Are you aware of the massive benefits these things have on businesses?

We are massive intranet fans, and are currently working on a couple of projects to help our clients become better internal communicators, so I wanted to share with you my 5 thoughts on the benefits of having an intranet.

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Wanted: I am a Corporate Recruiter and I need a new system, one that I can store candidates on (and my friend, and Agency Recruiter needs one that also stores clients as well). I understand that as a corporate recruiter I will need an Applicant Tracking System, and that my friend an Agency Recruiter ideally needs a Recruitment CRM. We don’t want anything complicated, so we have compiled a quick spec list of what we don’t need our new systems to do… can you help?

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I have been at #TruLondon for 2 days – digesting ideas and quotes around me. Looking at new software, debating the use of social media and tech with other social media types and techies. Whilst demo’ing some (very cute) recruitment software, the MD said the following:

“Recruitment is one of the most inefficient industries in the world”.

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I was sat on a #Trulondon track this morning about LinkedIn and the debate was about how recruiters use LinkedIn and it may be killing it…

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Whether you are an agency recruiter or a corporate recruiter, or simply a business wanting to market yourself and attract talent, Facebook can be a great tool for staff attraction.

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