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Sue Weekes Editorial
Sue is a freelance journalist who writes about the application of technology in areas such as the workplace, recruitment and training, as well as general management and HR issues. She has been a journalist for more than 20 years, during which time she has worked on both consumer and business-to-business titles.
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A warm welcome or full of empty promises?
03 March 2010
Firms are wising up to the way they treat their new arrivals, particularly when they discover how much is lost in attrition costs. Sue Weekes reports
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ChoiceAnalyst software makes hiring decisions easier on brain
03 March 2010
New software emerging from the US is helping recruiters and resourcing professionals choose who they should hire, promote or even lay off.
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Networking new joiners
03 March 2010
Recruitment advertising and communications agency TMP Worldwide is enhancing its onboarding service to clients by enabling new joiners to social network with potential colleagues before they start.
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Multi-poster Knollenstein offers end-to-end tracking service
03-February-2010
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2010: The year of the killer apps and smarter use of channels
20-January-2010
Social media will continue to be a major theme for 2010 but both recruiters and in-house resourcing professionals need to get smarter in how they use these new channels.
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LogicMelon offers ATA a mouthwatering platform
09-December-2009
ATA Recruitment, which specialises in the engineering, construction, rail, defence, aerospace and energy sectors, has become one of the first users of Optimal Internet’s LogicMelon multi-posting platform
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Comparison site calls for more transparency from job sites
25-November-2009
A new online planning and buying directory has revealed a lack of transparency when it comes to costs by some job sites and highlights that many lack any e-commerce facilities.
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IPhone app edges 'recruiting in the cloud' closer for candidates
11-November-2009
A new application and platform for the iPhone looks likely to accelerate ‘recruiting in the cloud’ concept in the UK by allowing candidates to apply for a job from their mobile device in one click.
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Ex-recruiter is brains behind new application for Twitter job searches
28-October-2009
A former recruiter is launching a service that manages the candidate’s jobseeking process on Twitter and ensures they only receive Tweets about relevant jobs.
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Mining the millions of online talent
14-October 2009
The downturn has led recruiters to maybe rethink the way they make use of candidate tracking tools. Despite an overflowing talent pool, Sue Weekes discovers that job boards are far from being a thing of the past
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PeopleMaps’ profiling to shake up psychometrics
14-October 2009
Employers will soon be able to receive unlimited access to a free online psychometric profiling service from PeopleMaps.
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Rain Forest brings the cloud closer to recruiters
30-September 2009
Barry Hinckley
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Cast a wider net
12-August 2009
Recruiters need to look beyond ‘traditional’ web services to keep internetofferings vital to clients, reports Sue Weekes
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Site offers free insight into freelance market
12-August 2009
Freelancesupermarket.com, the networking and comparison site for freelancers, contractors, recruiters and employers, will be publishing a monthly feedback report from 1 September.
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Serving the user
08-July 2009
As recruiters continue to search out technological and cost-effective ways of working, SaaS seems like one route that is well worth considering, reports Sue Weekes
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Personalised job tweets could go one step beyond
08-July 2009
Nearly 300 followers signed up for Jobsite’s Jobs-by- Twitter service in just a few days of its unofficial launch.
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Web TV channel to educate jobseekers
24-June 2009
The founder of an online career resource believes a lack of investment by the recruitment industry in training jobseekers to search for a job online is making life more difficult for the UK’s 2.2m unemployed.
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Online community clicks for Brighton recruiter
10-June-2009
A Brighton recruiter is using the power of online communities to better serve its specialist sector.
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Worky.com aims to shake up online recruitment
27-May-2009
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Policing PPC advertising for fraudulent clicking
29-April 2009
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising fraud has climbed to its highest rate ever in the last quarter of 2008, according to the Click Fraud Index.
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Easing the burden of talent bombardment
15-April-2009
As software solutions evolve to make the recruiter’s life easier, Sue Weekes discovers that technology can — and indeed must — go hand in hand with more face-to-face contact
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Software simplifies line manager engagement
15-April-2009
A new candidate management system based on Web 2.0 tools is aiming to simplify the recruitment process and promote better collaboration between recruiters and line managers.
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Recruiters all of a twitter over new job search site
01-Apr-2009
A new website that allows jobseekers to look for a job on the micro-blogging site Twitter could become the starting point for a candidate’s online job hunt.Fischer: big potential
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Career site advice from recruitment stalwart
18-Mar-2009
Robinson: directory of sites
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bmi's talent management system takes off with Bond
04-Mar-2009
Heathrow’s second largest airline, bmi, has increased the number of applications it can handle over the past six months by 25%, following implementation of Bond talent management software in its recruitment process.
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Online event highlights video and networking issue
18-Feb-2009
Guest: take onine seriously
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eSift’s new flat-fee model changes face of recruiting
04-Feb-2009
Online: Cole and Blackwell
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Online quality shows
04-Feb-2009
With the influx of jobseekers on the market, job boards are having to deliver quality over quantity, reports Sue Weekes
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Recruiters benefit from new Monster features
21-Jan-2009
Monster changes: new look, enhanced features and an improved experience fro both recruiters and jobseekers
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2D barcodes offer a new dimension for recruiters
14-Jan-2009
Bertozzi: attracting a set of technically adept candidates
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SEO must be integrated, monitored and analysed
10-Dec-2008
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Shedding light on technology for the future
10-Dec-2008
We may be entering a period of economic uncertainty but there is little doubt that both the recruiter’s and candidate’s reliance on new media will continue to grow throughout 2009. So just how will technology and new media further impact the sector over the next 12 months and what tools, techniques and methods will help recruiters not only survive the recession but ensure they come out the other side as one of the winners? Sue Weekes asked those who spend their lives at the leading ...
