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Do all roads lead to Job boards? Or just to Indeed?

A new suitor to all HR recruiting has arrived on the scene – and they’re called Indeed*. They’re growing fast, and in fact they’re starting to own the search marketplace for recruitment. I’ve just finished looking at the SilkRoad recruitment marketing effectiveness study of 1,054 companies, mostly in the US. Now, before you go thinking…

Inmails on form

As someone who has been using LinkedIn Inmails for a number of years, I’ve always found them a little hit and miss – despite all the discussion and often heated debate from LinkedIn. I just didn’t think they were reliable. There were even times when response rates were so low that I started to question…

Dear Linkedin: you’re trying too hard

I can’t be the only one getting fed up with all the meaningless noise on LinkedIn – all the updates and features desperately trying to get me to interact. To me, it seems that LinkedIn is trying to hard. For example: In the past week, I helped two clients change some details on their profile:…

Pactive Proof Of Summer Sunshine Over Crammond

The world is full of experts – No, really…

It is quite bizarre to see the whole world are now trainers in social media – everywhere you look – promising to take you to the golden sunset in the sky. It can be anyone with a Twitter account, LinkedIn company page or access to Google + and yet there seems to be so few …

Pactive nominated for S1 Award !

Pleased to say we have been nominated for the Best Campaign for our work with Scottish Fire and Rescue – The new single Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will have a workforce of more than 9,000 firefighters and support staff, with accountability for a multi-million pound budget and responsibility for ensuring the safety of more…

Are we all a bit like Felix?

When it comes to Social Media for HR, are we a bit like Felix Baumgartner? Standing on the edge of space, waiting to leap? He set the world record for skydiving an estimated 39 kilometres (24 mi), reaching an estimated speed of 1357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), or Mach 1.25, on 14 October 2012, and became…