Posts Tagged ‘Linkedin’
What I learned from Australia’s most provocative recruitment blogger of 2016
If you are reading this blog I suspect you read other recruitment blogs on a reasonably regular basis, via a subscription service or your LinkedIn feed or some other method. Given your knowledge of the recruitment blogosphere take a guess who in Australia published the most provocative recruitment blog of 2016, as measured by…
Read MoreFacebook jobs: a massive win for genuine recruitment consultants
Last week we saw the official confirmation of what has been an open secret for some years: Job postings on Facebook. LinkedIn’s dominance in the corporate recruiting world has been unchallenged due its unmatched depth of high skill professionals available on its platform. The price of the not-free LinkedIn recruitment offerings has made it clear that large enterprises recruiting…
Read MoreDecent research shows talent is very far from a company’s #1 priority
In a recent blog, I tackled the ludicrous claim made by LinkedIn in their fancifully named ‘Australia Recruiting Trends 2017: What you need to know about the state of talent acquisition’ that Australian and talent leaders say that Talent is #1 priority at their company (79%). I suggested that you would be hard pressed to find one agency…
Read MoreTalent is the #1 priority for 79 per cent of companies: Yeah right!
I regularly read recruitment industry vendor research, articles and white papers. The quality of these reports varies greatly, as I have blogged about previously. The most recent one I cast my eyes over was the LinkedIn Talent Solutions Australia Recruiting Trends 2017: What you need to know about the state of talent acquisition. The fine print tells me…
Read MoreAustralia still a global laggard in talent practices: Netherlands #1
LinkedIn and PWC have recently trumpeted that Australia is the world’s worst country for effective white collar recruitment and retention practices due to 23% of new hires quitting their job within 12 months of starting. Our closest cultural cousins, the USA and the UK, were far better with 15% and 12% respectively. This information is taken from research undertaken…
Read MoreWhich agencies are best taking advantage of their LinkedIn presence?
In preparation for my review of recruitment agencies’ career sites, which I will be publishing next month, I decided to have a look at how effectively recruitment agencies are using both their careers page (additional fee) and company page (free) on LinkedIn. For many recruitment agencies, having an effective presence on LinkedIn is part…
Read MoreQualitative data: The profitable future for the recruitment industry
I have reflected further on the two recruitment conferences that I attended late last month. The thoughts I documented straight after the conference were about the direct threat that I saw being posed to the traditional recruitment agency business model (last week’s blog was an analysis of the downfall of one of those traditional agency businesses, HJB, that…
Read MoreRecruitment business model crisis: RCSA and ATC conferences summary
Four days of conferencing is full-on. It’s not just the formal sessions, it’s the networking and socialising that barely gives you a moment to stop and think about and process what you have heard. The contrast between the two conferences was huge. For the first two days, I was mainly surrounded by corporate recruitment and…
Read MoreHow not to use LinkedIn: Lessons for recruiters (and other self-promoters)
How can professional people, people who should know better, do such dumb things in the course of doing their job? No, I’m not talking about Former CIA director David Petraeus and his affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell, I’m talking about the way some people use LinkedIn. I currently have over 2,500 first level LinkedIn connections…
Read MorePopular, profitable, cashed up: LinkedIn’s unstoppable momentum
Last week LinkedIn announced their September 2012 results. Here’s my summary of the most significant and relevant results: Area June – September 2012 (USD$ millions) June – September 2011 (USD$ millions) Period-to- period change Total revenue $252.0 $139.5 +81% – Talent solutions $138.4…
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