Did you know that the average human, when they focus their eyes only uses 3% of their available field of view? This means that 97% of their field of view is peripheral – outside of their field of view. This is a real pain when you want to attract attention from busy people who are in your client base. Using social media is a great way of tapping into your contacts’ peripheral vision.

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Last week I was running a few webinars for a client on Twitter and had to find some real life examples of job postings on Twitter – and I was really disappointed with what I found online. At the same time I was digesting Bullhorn Reach’s newest set of data collated from their gorgeous social recruitment platform which points to how powerful Twitter is as a social recruitment tool… things didn’t add up for me.

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I recently viewed a pretty good video on YouTube compiled by TweetMyJobs about social recruitment (the use of social media to recruit), so thought I’d share it with you. There are some pretty compelling stats in there.

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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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If you are a recruiter and looking for candidates you’ll love the feature on LinkedIn that allows you to find “similar” people to the one you are looking at.

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I have recently been working with a client to help them roll out a new CRM solution to 150 users. Their goal? To help them work towards their company £goals and help transition their business into a national recruiter with a standardised methodology of working. All great stuff.

We have delivered the training to them, so I thought I would share my thoughts on how to train new tech into a business

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When an employee starts in or leaves a business, don’t forget to action some social media tasks as part of the change. Your business and brand are precious, so protect them.

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The Recruiters Network is running an event on 24 May 2012 – for recruitment decision makers who are looking to change or purchase a new CRM system in the next 6-8 months and/or wish to learn about innovative technologies in the recruitment market.

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I am a masssive fan of anything that will save me time, and if it’s free, I am as a giddy as a kipper! I use Bullhorn Reach to monitor my network, and it gives me all sorts of benefits. Some recruiters already use it – but are you getting what you need from it, [...]

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Do you have a social media strategy?

I bet you have a social media footprint… you will probably be one of the 7m UK LinkedIn users, send one of the 6% of daily tweets, maybe you write blogs, or your business has a Facebook page… but what’s the point of this? What’s your aim? Do you know, or have you just set this stuff up as it’s free and easy?

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