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Data: the answer to your recruitment questions

How do you know if your jobs are in front of the right people at the right time? How can you tell how your employer brand performs against your competitors? How can you tap into talent pools? How can you improve candidate engagement and shape the candidate journey? The answer to it all lies in…

Social Media Recruitment: Silver Bullet?

As the saying goes, you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. It’s very easy to get drawn into trying something new and expecting results within days. But whatever anyone says, there is no silver bullet. You should get involved in social media, because it can bring all sorts of…

Make the most of your company LinkedIn page

I have had the pleasure of working with A G Barr in setting up their company page including products videos and job listings. It always amazes me the reaction you can get for simple messages and shares – last weeks have seen a tremendous response from both the home page and my followers. The…

Google+ is it growing – or is just me ?

I have been using Google+ for a number of years and in truth have not ever considered it as a more than wee add on solution – however I am finding myself interacting with it more across the board and it is helping so many people improve their Google rating. (That’s a TH thought process…

A little bit more on Indeed…

Last week, I wrote about Indeed and its sudden growth in the search rankings. Right now, if you check out any job market, the chances are that Indeed will come in the top 3. Indeed works as a search engine, not a job board – it aggregates content, which is then highly visible on Google…

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…