Tag Archives: e-recruitment

Why aren’t More Employers Using PPC Advertising For Their Recruitment?

September 29, 2011 – 12:04 pm

Google Adwords is the biggest pay per click advertising platform online and is used by thousands of businesses worldwide to promote products and services to millions of individuals and businesses. It is both cost effective and targeted as you only pay for those ads that are clicked on and choose the keywords your ads are shown against. Although Adwords is widely used by every business sector I have found companies wishing to recruit new employees are not utilising it for… Read More »

By Don Skinner | Posted in Social Recruitment | Comments (0)

Who you calling an expert?

September 15, 2010 – 7:04 pm

Had a nice request from Simply Hired to provide an expert advice Q & A session on their new SimplyBlog to discuss recruitment tactics. The interview can be found here. http://blog.simplyhired.co.uk/2010/09/expert-interview-with-steve-evans-managing-director-of-netnativescouk-and-founder-of-searchnativesco.html Nice to be asked, is all I’m saying…

By Steve Evans | Posted in Social Recruitment | Also tagged | Comments (0)

Can Twitter end the recession?

August 19, 2009 – 8:25 am

Twitter’s is never out of the news, whether with rallying cries against those damn Yankees criticising the NHS or the power of citizen journalism helping mobilise radical thought in Iran. But I can’t help feeling its mighty PR machine has missed a trick by not ascribing Twitter’s influence over the gradual global recovery from recession. Twitter has been perfectly placed during this period of slow trade and rising unemployment to be used as the effective business tool for the quick witted. Twitter’s… Read More »

By Steve Evans | Posted in Social Media Strategy | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

thoughts on setting up an employee referral scheme

July 17, 2009 – 3:31 pm

I wanted to put down some thoughts about employee referrals as there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information or help out there for businesses. Probably because it erodes the revenues of recruitment companies and the agencies charge a fortune to put something in place. Well, nuts to that. If it’s worth knowing, it’s worth sharing… We know that sometimes the best person is the friend of the friend already working for you. You just need to make sure you are… Read More »

By Steve Evans | Posted in Social Recruitment | Also tagged , , , | Comments (6)

Recruitment tips and advice – learn to do more yourself…

July 6, 2009 – 6:48 am

I am going to expand on some of these points later (especially the effective referral schemes and social media strategy), but wanted to get out there some simple recruitment tips and advice that we know help in the hiring process and will keep costs down. These are some key points to a successful recruitment strategy; Question yourself  – work out why you need to fill the role, what is the key purpose and what is the key outcome? Do you… Read More »

By Steve Evans | Posted in Social Recruitment | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)