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Jun 28

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Online recruitment is happening

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I was reading this press release earlier and it sparked some thoughts.

First of all, how everything changes so quickly. Especially in this technologically charged generation, everything moves so quickly that we process tasks fast and move on to the next thing.

However, this is good if we know what to hold on to and what to change and improve, through technology.

Recruitment is one thing which could benefit from becoming more technology minded in its approach. Traditional methodologies are still obviously good, but a more agile and flexible recruitment process is needed. This means that recruiters and employers have to react and respond quickly to secure the best candidate for their position as well as being flexible, due to an increasing diverse range of applicants for particular roles.

Online recruitment enables you to be more reactive and open-minded, and get you to the desired result quicker at a lower cost. According to the press release mentioned earlier:

“Online recruitment methods bring many benefits including lower costs and quicker time-to-hire. However, equally it has led to many promiscuous applicants applying for jobs making it more difficult to filter out the good applicants and ensure you recruit them quickly before someone else does.”

Through the use of  an appropriate social recruitment software you would be able to filter out all the unnecessary “noise” and strip down to the ideal candidate for the position you’re looking to fill. You might find out that one of the applicants is actually perfect for another position you have open! And kill two birds with one stone.

I believe that when empowered with the right tool, it’s easy to reach, engage and hire the right talent.

If you’re interested in the social aspects of recruitment, you can start dipping your toes in by downloading your free copy of this social media policy guidelines. You can use it for your clients or company or a reference if you wish!

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May 26

Are you into social recruiting?

Nowadays, everything is social. And if it isn’t, it has to be made so. At first I thought, what is the need?

But there is one. It’s like when you add the social element to something, you really do bring value with added connections and engagement. A person can be spurred on by something someone else said. In the same way, you could find the perfect candidate for your job, who otherwise, you would have most likely missed out on.

There’s a growing number of options in the recruitment space, but I’m increasingly convinced that traditional recruitment methodology is no longer enough. It would be sensible to integrate your traditional strategy with what technology offers. Tools like easy posting of ads to websites, job boards and social networks are just the beginning and definitely a must have, together with candidates management, tracking and monitoring tools.

Social recruitment is only at the beginning and is certainly bringing a fresh new look to the meaning of the word recruitment.

Check out this blog post for more info on the matter. This company provides other services as web based HR software and are building an innovative tool to suit the needs of the social recruitment space.

They’re looking for beta customers so, quick, get in early!

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Apr 21

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2011 HR Software market trends

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I was reading a post on the software advice blog about where the HR software market is going.

It looks like firms are not going to buy a new HR software this year, but rather implement some new improvements on their existing software, such as administration and employees dashboards and self service as well as tracking for key HR metrics.

The big trend this year seem to be cloud based, software as a service HR systems.

I can see why they are quickly rising to the top as if you think about it, you probably use lots of cloud based services daily already, such as Dropbox or other apps that make your work easier (one I use is Wunderlist for to do management).

I think that the ability to access an application regardless of time or place is simply astonishing.
From the point of view of a company with multiple offices around the world, surely located in different time zones is a great advantage as they don’t have to wait for a colleague to be in the office to have information about an employee annual leave or check if they signed a document. They can access all these information by accessing an internet page with their personal login credentials.

Quoting Christopher Baum, from the above mentioned article:

Cloud-based HR systems are in strong demand. Aside from cost of ownership benefits, a compelling benefit of this model is the ability to leave the provider responsible for keeping the software compliant with current rules and regulations.

I think cloud based HR systems are definitely the way forward for the HR software market and for all software for that matter.

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