It seems that while the recruitment universe is still embroiled in tedious arguments about the value of social media and building technology that spams jobs listings into the social web, real life continues to move on and social embeds itself still further in the job hunting process. Between them LinkedIn and Facebook have pretty much [...]

A few weeks back I posted about mobile being my new top priority. I’m therefore delighted to announce that MetaShift has collaborated with mobile recruiting legend Dave Martin (aka @mobile_dave) to produce a free white paper on the topic. You can download our free Guide to Mobile Recruiting now by following this link The aim [...]

A few weeks ago Joey quit his job. Nothing unusual so far, I’m sure lots of other people did as well, however I bet that Joey was the only one who took a marching band in with him to accompany him handing his notice to his boss! Predictably the YouTube video of said event has already [...]

I’ve just got back from the fantastic Mobile Recruiting Camp conference. Not only was this the first global event of its kind it was also excellent and the legend that is Michael Marlatt deserves huge plaudits for organizing it

The event reminded me very much of the first Social Recruiting conference three years ago. There was a real sense that a major shift is happening and while recruitment case studies are still shockingly thin on the ground there was some great thinking as well as an insight into how mobile is dramatically changing business in other industries. Perhaps more importantly though these kind of events give you the opportunity to reflect and focus on a single topic for a dedicated period of time and that’s exactly what I was doing while I was there.

Back in January I wrote a post saying I didn’t think 2011 was going to be the year of mobile, mainly because of a lack of knowledge from employers, and I still stand by my thinking. However what the conference has done is instill in me a sense of priority and urgency that 2012 absolutely needs to be the year of mobile in our industry. If not employers run a massive risk of eroding the candidate experience ...

Finally it would seem that one of the major job boards has blinked and properly joined the social recruiting revolution. Monster pre launched a Facebook recruiting network called BeKnown this morning and on first glance it certainly isn’t a token effort. It looks like a very serious play to get into the Facebook recruitment space, [...]