The majority of businesses that have an online presence are aware that in order to stay relevant they need to be active on their social media accounts and website. They also understand that they need to engage with others online by responding to comments and inquires as well as by advertising their content and […]
I set up Prominence in January of 2014. At that time the business didn’t have much in the way of a goal, apart from that I knew I wanted to somehow capitalise on the changing online landscape. I set myself the goal of building a strong brand in the social recruiting and marketing space. My […]
Have you noticed the guru trend? You know the one, where after creating one successful post on LinkedIn Publisher people think they are to the recruitment world what Gordon Ramsey is to the culinary world. On one side of the coin this is great for the industry; the more people championing new tools and techniques, […]
When it comes to recruitment tools everyone has their personal favourites. The problem is with so many options available it can be hard to decide what you need, what does what and which are irrelevant. When reviewing tools there is nearly always more than one option. In some instances the best option is obvious because […]
Are you using social media to source, connect and engage with candidates? More than ever before having a powerful online presence matters for your brand. It is important to have a visual strategy but equally as crucial is to ensure your images look great on each social platform. To help we’ve put together a social media image […]
What would happen if you stopped posting content to your social channels for a week or even a month? My guess is that in most cases it would make no difference to your recruitment or careers business. This is because the majority of recruitment firms or internal talent teams are only playing lip service […]
Nearly a year ago I wrote a blog explaining what the average recruiter was like on Twitter, it can be found here, but in summary the average recruiter has 37 followers and really doesn’t get Twitter. This follow up is designed for recruiters who recently attended an RCSA Greg Savage event and now feel the […]
Since we published last week’s blog post (What is the Commercial Use Limit on LinkedIn?) I’ve received lots of interesting feedback from a wide range of platform users and also managed to get some more concrete results from my own experimentation. User Input Commercial use limit reports have varied dramatically, but the consensus is that […]
It is early January so you may not yet have noticed any change to LinkedIn, but in the background there have been several key changes implemented for 2015. Two of these changes are very significant for recruiters and have the potential to force those that are currently getting by with the LinkedIn Basic account to upgrade to […]
We all now recruit in candidate short markets, this means traditional digital sourcing tools such as job boards and LinkedIn are producing fewer results. To solve this problem recruiters are looking to new platforms to find candidates. For those working in the IT industry, in particular recruiting software developers GitHub is a great tool. […]