Recruiter
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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Polycom saves costs by using LinkedIn
January 2012
COMMS COMPANY REDUCES AGENCY RELIANCE AND LINKS INTO GLOBAL TALENT NETWORK
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WorkDigital gives social authority to talent ranking
30 November 2011
Fischer: tool gives engagement score
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LinkedIn talent pool tool in the pipeline
16 November 2011
Talent Pipeline on track for recruiters
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SaaS platform helps build pools fizzing with talent to search for
2 November 2011
Padbury: searchable talent pools
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Lumesse links up with talent on the move
19 October 2011
Langley: in the future,most will interact via an app
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Reed's Exchange matches up employers with chosen recruiters
5 October 2011
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Mobile tipping point for recruitment industry?
21 September 2011
Elliott: Tipping point for talent software
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Powerful new-generation careers site launched
7 September 2011
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Automatic for the people
17 August 2011
Recruiters are increasingly benefiting from technological developments to assist with lead generation. Sue Weekes reports
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Career Centre saves G4S £1m in first year
17 August 2011
Scales: in talks with global businesses
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Bullhorn helps recruiters reach in to the social space
27 July 2011
Andy Lord
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Desperately seeking software
13 July 2011
Development of software and tools for sourcing is nothing new. In fact, as Sue Weekes discovers, the hardest part is keeping up with the changes
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BeKnown builds Facebook network for recruitment
13 July 2011
Henry: opportunity to talk to 422m people, which is huge
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Netting the top talent to source the best
29 June 2011
As client demand for RPO services is growing, Sue Weekes investigates how the providers themselves are trying to land the top recruiting talent
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Marriott uses gaming to attract the Millennials
29 June 2011
Sarah Lenton
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Interview innovation improves international candidate hiring
15 June 2011
Innovate CV is launching a new online interview tool, which is available to agencies that use its white label service, which allows recruiters create branded CVs with their own logo to distribute to clients. The company is also opening a US office in New York and is currently carrying out beta testing with a number of US recruiters.
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IOR's free Lynx software prowls on recruitment software vendors
1 June 2011
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RB's online thrill-seeking game runs away with brand awareness
18 May 2011
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading brand in household, health and personal care, has received more than 100,000 visits to its UrbAN THRILL free running game, designed to create awareness of the company among graduates and those early in their business careers.
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The changing face of interaction
4 May 2011
As customer relationship management (CRM) now plays a greater role in recruitment, Sue Weekes looks at how it continues to evolve and shape business practice
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Working Pulse plans for AWR
4 May 2011
Baldwin: get an AWR system in place
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Head Resourcing in private cloud
20 April 2011
Edinburgh-based recruitment consultancy Head Resourcing is aiming to reduce costs by 20% and its carbon footprint by 80% by moving its IT infrastructure to a private cloud.
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Blue Octopus engages with Sleepmasters to cut hiring time
6 April 2011
(l) Jolly: audit trail clear on each vacancy (r) Coleman: took comments on board
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Online jobseeker behaviour captured
6 April 2011
The typical online jobseeker looks for a job at 8.21am on their mobile device while commuting and is far more likely to make an application on a Tuesday than at the weekend.
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Online recruitment's Olympian challenge
23 March 2011
Steve Girdler: companies need to act quickley to secure the best possible people
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Voice testing technology can reduce staff attrition
9 March 2011
Trials of an innovative new technology that measures a user’s psychometric ability through voice have revealed that it can halve attrition rates and is proving particularly applicable to volume recruitment for contact centres.
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Mobile job applications through Jobsite on the up
23 February 2011
The number of people visiting Jobsite via a mobile phone has grown 200% over the past year, with 8% of the job board’s total visits now coming from a mobile device.
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Getting your message across
9 February 2011
It’s no longer enough to have a slick-looking website with state-of-the-art design, Sue Weekes discovers it’s all about marketing to the right audience on the internet
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StaffShare service helps retain and spread knowledge across sectors
9 February 2011
Thirty local authorities will be among the first users of StaffShare, an online skills exchange which aims to connect employers with under-utilised employees who are available for secondment.
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Redrock provides online IT pool
19 January 2011
Bristol-based IT recruitment firm Redrock Consulting is launching a web portal next month that allows clients to hire contractors direct, which it claims could save around 33% on recruitment costs.
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Using technology to fish for candidates
8th December 2010
Recruiters need to make use of all the tools available for the web to build a specialised database of candidates, reports Sue Weekes, so they can ’mine’ for future vacancies
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UK online fixed-fee model set for global expansion
8th December 2010
Online recruitment specialist Recruitment Genius is planning to expand globally in 2011 and is targeting China, Australia, the US and Canada.
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Reed.co.uk revamp refocuses services on recruiters' needs
24 November 2010
Reed.co.uk has redesigned its website from the ground-up to better suit the needs of recruiters.
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SalesMatch identifies the right sales animal
24 November 2010
Spencer Davies
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Prime RPO turns to US Newton for ATS software
10 November 2010
Charlotte Murdoch
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Work for us? Facebook app pushes targeted jobs and direct recruiting
27 October 2010
The Work For Us app has helped American Apparel to respond quicker to fill hard-to-fill roles in the company
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The starting point for online searches
13 October 2010
Despite new social media channels offering new ways for recruiters to find candidates and for jobseekers to find new positions, the job board is still very much alive and well, as Sue Weekes discovers
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Bond seeks to give exec search firms an intelligent advantage
13 October 2010
Bond International Software is launching a standalone product for executive search consultancies.
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Further software integration drags recruiter databases up-to-date
15 September 2010
Three more major recruitment software firms are offering integration with the toolbar Drag&Tag that allows recruiters to more easily categorise, share and search information that they find online.
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Eploy technology helps secure RPO contract for Atlan Resource
21 July 2010
Atlan Resource Solutions has won a recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) contract with communications company T-Systems and will be using a customised version of eploy’s online recruitment and applicant tracking software to manage the customer-candidate interface.
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Recruiter's own software Firefish goes to market
07 July 2010
Firefish, a spin-out software company from Glasgow-based specialist IT recruitment firm 9-20 Recruitment, has formally launched.
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Barcodes help recruiters quickly scan for talent
26 May 2010
People4business, the company behind the marketplace site dedicated to contractors and freelance services, is embedding quick response (QR) barcodes into its websites that can be scanned by smart phones to give recruiters and resourcing professionals much faster access to those profiled on the site.
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Kenexa puts talent on the record and on the move
12 May 2010
In what it claims is a first, global business and HR applications provider Kenexa is introducing a unified talent management platform, which includes functionality for the mobile environment.
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Monster move for online recruiting
28 April 2010
Recruiters who participated in trials of Monster’s new semantic search technology, 6Sense, achieved 65% time-savings when searching CV databases compared with using keyword searches. They also reported that the number of qualified candidates they were able to find increased by 150%.
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Putting CRM at the heart of recruiting
14 April 2010
With many customer relationship management systems, the candidate can often be relegated to second fiddle. Sue Weekes discovers why recruiters should redress this
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Microsoft to reduce costs of sourcing with Jobs2web
14 April 2010
Microsoft has rolled out the Jobs2web Recruitment Marketing Platform across all of its global business units. It follows a successful pilot of the platform in its Entertainment and Devices division.
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.Jobs heralds online revolution
31 March 2010
A radical new online recruitment concept that will offer employers free job postings is expected to arrive in the UK later this year.
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Beyond the beauty pageant
17 March 2010
Choosing a preferred supplier can be a shallow process. Sue Weekes looks at how both client and customer can find the right relationship
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CVs catch up with Web 2.0 world
17 March 2010
Newly-launched Innovate CV, which aims to change the way CVs are presented and managed, is to make it easier for recruiters to verify how qualified a candidate is for a job by linking them to online courses and skills tests.
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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 ...
