News

Nov 22nd

Facebook viral shares kill Word-of-Mouth

Good old fashioned word-of-mouth has kicked the bucket, with the ability ‘share’ on sites like Facebook creating new avenues for recruitment advertising to literally reach millions.

Nov 22nd

Social Recruiting

The New Kid On The Block:

ANZ, one of Australia’s largest businesses, announced last month plans to integrate social networking via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube into its global recruitment strategy, starting in 2012.

Nov 22nd

A Guide: Social Media in Recruitment

From online job boards, to print advertisements, to word of mouth referrals – there are many ways to attract and identify potential candidates. However, as more and more organizations are finding out - social media can play a pivotal part.

Take Big 4 professional services firm Deloitte's for example - the Australian School of Business (2011) notes that social media plays a role in attracting up to three-quarters of all Deloitte hires!

Oct 14th

Do you stereotype your candidates? Maybe You Should.

Q. When is stereotyping candidates for your latest role a useful and valid tool, rather than a practice that puts you at risk of all manner of legal and ethical issues?

A. When you’re strategizing your recruitment advertising campaign.
The necessity to stereotype in advertising your vacancies is due to the same basic limitation that all advertisers operate under – it’s not within your budget to advertise everywhere for everyone.

Oct 14th

Be honest – do you like your employees?

We often hear from our clients that one of the job types they find most difficult to recruit for, is sales. The challenge spans across so many industries – construction, mining, manufacturing, finance, travel – and it appears there is a major shortage in Canada of talented salespeople who are willing to put in the hard yards for success.

Sep 30th

Recruiting For Increased Sales

At the Signature Travel Network Owners' Meeting this month, Blaine Lambert, of CruiseExperts Travel in Vancouver, shared his company's strategy for recruiting a productive cruise-selling staff that skews younger in age than the industry norm.

One basic is to look for sales people as opposed to someone already in the travel industry. "Travel industry experience isn't always necessary, as we can always train," says Lambert. "But a sales background or a drive for making sales is critical."

With the assistance of a recruitment agency called Employment Office,

Aug 25th

Social Media for Recruiting

Finding the right candidate for a job is like finding a new apartment: timing, finances and quality all have to align just right. And somehow, the pool of options always seems to feel both prohibitively large and prohibitively limited at the same time.

Sep 14th

Canada adds more jobs than expected in August

Canada's economy added 35,800 jobs in August, slightly more than expected, although the pace of employment creation was slower than in the first half of the year, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday.

Market operators had predicted a gain of 30,000 jobs in August after a surprise drop of 9,300 positions in July -- the first decline of the year. The August unemployment rate edged up to 8.1 percent from 8.0 percent in July as more people entered the labour force.

Aug 21st

Does your candidate really want the job?

Regardless of how keen a candidate seems to take a role, recruiters must ask certain key questions to minimize the risk that they'll withdraw from the recruitment process, says coach Sophie Robertson.

Some recruiters never seem to have candidates change their mind about job offers, she notes, and this is because of their thoroughness in the interview process and their willingness to discount a candidate if they are not convinced about their intentions to move.

Jul 17th

Record breaking job increase in Canada

Canada's unemployment rate dipped below eight per cent in June for the first time in more than a year.

Statistics Canada said Friday the economy added a whopping 93,200 jobs in June, almost all of them in Ontario and Quebec.

The unexpectedly large number of jobs that were added dropped Canada's unemployment rate to 7.9 per cent.

"I'm flabbergasted … another blockbuster gain," TD economist Derek Burleton said.

"It really does speak to the strength of the domestic economy."