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Been made Redundant!

November 8, 2009
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As more and more people are made redundant the competition for vacancies has become even greater, then add to this many of them now find themselves having to cope with the advances in web 2.0, making searching for a job completely different from even 5 years ago, or even less.
In the past responsible employers would [...]

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Ex Recruiter succeeds out of Recruitment

November 2, 2009
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Although I have not written anything for three months it doesn’t necessarily mean I haven’t been keeping an eye on what was going on within Recruitment or at least getting some inspiration for Recruitment Views!
My excuses for not writing has been as a direct result of my father getting cancer and then passing away within [...]

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Arithon Software The Next Generation

August 19, 2009
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I have been meaning to write this for sometime, which may seem strange as I work for Arithon, maybe its because its so close to home.
So as a little introduction Arithon has been developing their web based recruitment software package since 1999, in those years we have seen many changes with the Internet so Arithon [...]

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Advertise on the Sun for free

August 17, 2009
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I have to admit I do not read the Sun although with a readership of 3 million and 20 million unique user visits to their website, it was with some surprise to find that after they launched their free to advertise job board, that there are actually very few jobs advertised.
Mind you it did take [...]

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10 Ways to Jump Start Your Job Search

August 12, 2009
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Today we have a guest post by Nikki, who has set up a company called My CV and ME. Basically they help candidates land their perfect job, by helping with the writing of your CV, interview coaching, assessment centre coaching and career coaching. So when she asked if she could write a guest post, I [...]

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Which industry sector is struggling!

July 29, 2009
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If you didn’t spot the launch last week for the TotalJobs Barometer, I suggest you take a look just to get a handle on the recruitment market place.
With over 2 million unique job seekers that generate over 1 million on-line job applications each month, Totaljobs have unique position when it comes to identifying trends [...]

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UK Recruiter Plus

July 15, 2009
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Today Louise has officially launched her UK Recruitment Plus website, which I am sure will be a valuable aid to any recruiter. It isn’t a free resource, hence the work that has gone into the building of the site with input from various experts from within our industry.
In some ways it is a compilation of [...]

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Reckitt Benckiser's Recruitment Blog

July 9, 2009
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I am a little late with this press release for Rekitt Benckiser’s Recruitment Blog, but even so I still wanted to give them a mention because it’s a good example of a corporate blog being used to get candidates for their own company.
The Site is called My RB Opportunities and basically is made of 9 [...]

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Three Tweets in a pod!

July 6, 2009
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Well its a start, I am sure someone can come up with better for Mike Taylor’s competition of “What do you call three recruitment bloggers?”, as a caption for the phot0 above of Andy Hedworth Myself and Peter Gold (reading left to right) mind you Sara has got me worried with “”Hair today, gone tomorrow” [...]

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Social Media In Recruitment Conference

July 1, 2009
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I may have taken my laptop with me to the UK, but now I am back I am still struggling to catch up! It has been a little while since my last post and I have to admit I have no excuse, I have plenty of  material but for some reason I have found [...]

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