I’m getting asked by a lot of my clients – “Should I be on Pinterest?” so I wanted to post a blog on where it’s at and get you thinking about whether this will help your business.

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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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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 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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I adore listening to podcasts… I totally love them. I rarely have time to read mags and newspapers. A toddler and a busy business makes for very little free time, but I still want to know what’s going on out there and keep up to date with culture. I always advise ,my clients to think about this medium…

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Over the years I have worked with a lot of clients helping them with their business process software (CRM – Client Relationship Management / ATS – Applicant Tracking Systems) and I am often stumped at how little time businesses have taken to get it right – and how negative an impact this can have.

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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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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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If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am a massive fan of recruitment tech. There are various events throughout the year aimed at recruitment technology and social media, but the #TRU events are like a caffeine shot for me (and I am a caffeine free-girl, so it has a double impact!)

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