South African auditing firm BDO Spencer Steward has tapped into social networking with a Facebook campaign that is helping it recruit graduate students faster and more cost-effectively.
How to find a job using Facebook, Fair Lady Magazine, May 2009 Click the thumbnail below to view the article.
Job advertising has come a long way since the ‘help wanted’ sign. With globalisation, the Internet and media fragmentation exposing job seekers to more employment opportunities than ever before – but simultaneously making them harder to find – Human Resources managers are finding it increasingly difficult to get the top talent’s attention. The challenge is [...]
South African companies are missing out on opportunities to attract skills, cut recruitment costs and get a competitive advantage by finding good people due to a lack of a compelling employer brand. As the quality of skills a company has over that of its competitors’ has become the last bastion of competitive advantage, companies must [...]
“Employer branding event will share the latest in attracting and retaining talent in South Africa in the current Economic climate” After sell-out events in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East, Brett Minchington world-renowned thought-leader author and speaker on Employer Branding comes to Johannesburg to present Employer Branding Masterclass Date: 18 March 2009 Venue: Summer [...]
With a younger new group of job seekers, often known as the Millenials or Generation Y, now entering the job market, human resources (HR) managers will have to adopt new approaches to recruit and retain the staff of the future, according to Mark Gray, head of specialist HR technology and marketing firm Graylink. Not only [...]
Mark Gray, of recruitment technology company Graylink, tells Penny Haw how job seekers and those looking to hire are increasingly finding each other online. From The Business Day, 9th Dec 2008 FORGET the credit crunch, what about the career crunch? A survey of graduates and students conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers last month found that 81% were [...]
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, [...]
