Tag Archive | "candidate experience"

It can take a metaphorical knock on the head or kick from behind to spur some people into action, but my experience was rather more real and a little more painful. Whilst sitting at my desk as a retail manager in London, a box full of metal brackets fell from a shelf above. Completely unaware [...]

For Matt Berry, Director or Resourcing at Centrica, the daily challenge of his team is that around half of all candidates are already customers of British Gas. The other half are potential customers. “There can’t be too many people in that scenario, and it certainly focuses the mind in terms of the way that you [...]

Another day and another hire, the world of recruitment doesn’t stop and that’s what makes it so fun. I’ve been asking friends in the Recruitment Industry to give us their predictions for 2013. We’ve been talking to Darren Brown (Co-Founder and CEO at Logic Melon) and Mike Roberts (Event Director at the Graduate Recruitment Social Media [...]

There has been much written about the Candidate Experience and it really has been a topic of much debate over the last year, we see the references to the Employer Brand, the fact that candidates can be consumer and your customers potential candidates and so much more. So we have decided that the next MonsterBuzz [...]

As social networking brings increased focus to the quality of the candidate experience a new award scheme has been launched to recognise best practice Although the current recruitment marketplace can best be described as turbulent, there is currently a strong focus on the candidate experience. There are a number of reasons for this. In some [...]

 I recently wrote a blog about candidate control. This is a follow up around the subject of counter offers; every recruiters nightmare.  Firstly quoting the dubious “within 18 months, 93% of those accepting a counter offer leave” stat is NOT a counter offer strategy! Combating a counter offer starts right back at the very first [...]

Last week we showed up to the Social Recruiting Conference (#SRConf) with our VP of Marketing UK & Ireland, David Henry, all geared up to talk about some of the more interesting things we’ve been working on socially recently. SRConf is all about forward thinking. It gathers leading Employers, HR and Recruitment Industry professionals, to [...]

So, gone are the days where being away from the computer also meant being away from the internet. I find myself sat on an evening with the television on, my laptop on my knee, my phone by my side and more often than not an Xbox controller in my hands. Actually, when I go to [...]

My first post for Monster and what better subject to pick than talent communities.  In terms of resourcing, it’s one of my pet subjects. But not in a good way…   First of all, talent communities for me are a bit like your grandparents having a baby – nice, but couldn’t you have got round [...]

#SRCONF is Europe’s thought-leading Social Media in Recruiting conference. We’ll be joined by leading employers, HR specialists and recruitment industry professionals, to discuss the possibilities of social recruiting. At #SRCONF 2012, you’ll learn and share insights and case studies on social media recruitment strategies, mobile recruiting, talent communities, employer branding and candidate experience.