Tweeting for talent – graylink featured in Business Day, July 2009

Posted on 27. Jul, 2009

From Business Day (27/07/09)
Employers are turning to social networking platforms to supplement their traditional methods of searching for talent.
Twitter is one such site being used more and more in the hiring scene. It allows people to post quick, short text messages of up to 140 characters.
Thoughts, news and ideas, called tweets, are broadcast almost instantly [...]

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Chartered accountants recruit on Facebook- IT-Online feature May 2009

Posted on 19. May, 2009

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.

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Online adspend set to surge over the next 10 years

Posted on 12. Feb, 2009

LONDON – Adspend in Britain could grow by as much as 52 per cent in real terms during the next decade fuelled by the internet, according to new forecasts produced for the Advertising Association.
It suggests the medium’s share of spend will jump from the current six per cent to 14 per cent by 2020, with [...]

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Attracting and retaining talent in South Africa – Employer branding event

Posted on 09. Feb, 2009

“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 Place, 69 Melville [...]

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Get Linkedin and put your best Facebook forward

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009

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 more [...]

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