In today's candidate led IT recruitment market, hiring can be more expensive and time-consuming than ever. It is, therefore, in your best interests to balance the recruiting reality in your favour by optimising your practices so that they deliver not just great talent but a real ...

So Facebook appears to have taken on LinkedIn with its new job ads feature - but is it any good? As I write, “Facebook Jobs” has launched in the USA and Canada but anticipate a global rollout before too long. As you would expect, Facebook has made it as easy as possible for both ...

If you're looking on eBay or searching on Google, you make your search criteria as specific as possible so you don't waste time with results that don't fit. It's the same with a job search. Either consciously or subconsciously the criteria that fits with a candidate's search is w...

What have a renewable energy firm, a high street grocery chain and a lingerie retailer got in common? Any ideas? It's something that they share with a processed meat supplier, a public transport operator and a pet supplies store. Also a broadcaster, a financial services broker an...

When your firm loses a great team member, they take with them a business value that cannot be easily replaced. First, there's the rich knowledge that they have of your organisation, its products, culture, systems and processes. They may have fostered relationships with your clien...

Last month The Telegraph asked, "Has technology made old-school recruitment irrelevant?" Interesting question. Social media and video interviewing has made it much easier for hirers to suss out potential candidates without meeting them so, the paper asked, are traditional recruit...