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Online recruiting overtook other hiring channels in 2009

Effective, efficient recruitment of the right staff was imperative for many organisations last year as the recession continued to bite, so it was no surprise to read this month that “online recruitment was the only recruitment channel to grow in … Read More »

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Google Social Search: What could it mean for recruitment?

In the battle to get real-time search results (e.g. Twitter updates) indexed into its search engine, last month Google finally made its ‘Social Search’ feature live for all signed-in English Googlers. The exciting feature, which has previously been a Google … Read More »

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Employment outlook for 2010

Whilst the snow and ice have been dominating the headlines (and the office conversation) this month, its encouraging to read reports that last years economic difficulties and ‘recruitment freezes’ could be beginning to thaw. There’s been lots of interesting HR … Read More »

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Are employees costing organisations £1.3 billion in personal social networking?

It was interesting to read the results of a recent survey on the costs of social network use, which suggested that employees who used social networks were costing UK organisations £1.3 billion every year in lost productivity. The survey by … Read More »

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Recession prompts rise in staff engagement levels

With all the talk about increasing unemployment and redundancies, it was encouraging to read about a recent survey commissioned by Best Companies that found that the recession was increasing staff engagement levels. Best Companies, a workplace engagement specialist, conducted the … Read More »

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