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How to find a job using Facebook, Fair Lady Magazine, May 2009 Click the thumbnail below to view the article.

Making the most of social networks to benefit you. Looking for a new job is one of the most stressful things imaginable in life, apart from marriage, death, divorce, and moving house (and possibly traffic). It takes a lot of time to update your CV, look through the recruitment classifieds every week, and go for [...]

Recruitment campaigns must appeal to Generation Yers — who see the working world as their personal smorgasbord, writes Margaret Harris The new generation of job seekers do not respond in the same way as previous generations to recruitment drives, so recruiters need to plan and execute their strategies to attract them or risk being ignored. [...]

Can an elaborate employment branding strategy be successful if managers suck? Probably not, which is why leadership is closely linked to successful employment branding and employee relationships. The implications for any business are potentially far-reaching. Talent, says HR Future Publisher Alan Hosking, resides in the top 20% of a company’s employees who, by their skills, [...]

Nike’s doing it, Nuttela’s doing it, Dell almost didn’t do it, but is now making up for it. Dove’s done it and done it well. These companies are social networking for business-the new, hot (and sometimes tricky) online trend. By Bianca Wright Social Networking sites allow users to generate and share content. Most people associate [...]

The communication styles and job expectations of Generation Y – those born between 1980 and 2000 – are totally different from those of previous generations, and prospective employers who want to attract school leavers and graduates now entering the workforce need to shift their thinking or risk losing talented candidates, according to Mark Gray, head [...]

  The media landscape and work environment has changed so much over the last decade that a new approach is required for HR staff to source and recruit talented candidates. Human resource managers take heed – the future is not what it used to be. The search for talented employees continues to become tougher and [...]

  The recruitment game is changing as HR practitioners align their jobs with corporate branding, says Mark Gray of marketing and human resources firm Graylink. Every year companies spend millions of rands building their corporate brands and marketing themselves as leaders in their respective industries. This is often in a bid to not only attract [...]

Get HR right and you will prosper. Get it wrong and you won’t. What could be simpler? But few get this balancing act right. If anyone thought the problem of human resources had been solved by technology, a quick look at the Los Angeles district last month would show otherwise. Some 5 000 teachers and [...]