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Hire Strategies launch UK first: HR social network

2008-09-29T14:46:38Z

Talent Cloud creator - Peter Gold of Hire Strategies - explains the motives behind Talent Cloud.

"Social networks have taken the World by storm and now they are starting to become an integral part of internal communications and employee engagement programmes. Organisations such as Vodafone, BT and McDonalds are just some of the UK leaders in corporate social networking but they won't be the last. As HR will often be the people tasked with making a success of internal social media projects, we felt it was vital for them to be able to demonstrate their strategic value in this area; hence we created Talent Cloud to give them first hand experience of how to use social networking for business."

The Body Shop scoops 1st place

2008-04-10T10:28:34Z

Hire Strategies Limited (HSL) is proud to launch the first industry award for excellence in retail career sites.

Over the next few weeks Hire Strategies Managing Director Peter Gold will release full details of his recent research into retail e-recruitment and name and shame the best and worst websites for capturing top retail talent.

Hire Strategies researched a "top 100" of major retailers from the food and grocery, high street, out of town and retail banking markets, and found some startling results.

Does your career site attract or repel top talent?

2008-04-02T16:01:08Z

Hire Strategies Limited (HSL) is proud to launch the first industry award for excellence in retail career sites.

Over the past couple of weeks HSL have been announcing the winners in the first ever research of it's kind into the quality and performance of career sites for major retailers in the UK. HSL researched a "top 100" of major retailers from the food & grocery, high street, out of town and retail banking markets, and found a wide range of results.

Talent Management Business (Social) Network

2008-03-18T23:13:02Z

Hire Strategies have launched a Talent Management Network as part of their focus on social networking within the business sector.

As social networking becomes commonplace, in the same way that people have personal and business telephone numbers, personal and business e-mail addresses, we believe that people will have both personal and business networks.

Best UK Recruitment Blog of 2007

2008-02-05T12:02:00Z

E-recruitment in Retail has won Best UK Recruitment Blog of 2007, awarded by UK Recruiter. The competition was open to any UK recruitment related blog and votes were placed online during December 2007 and January 2008.

E-recruitment in Retail has been going since July 2006 and during this time has included over 300 posts and had over 50,000 visitors from all over the World; not bad for a UK blogger!

Corporate recruiting online

2008-01-16T22:12:56Z

Total incompetence or outright discrimination?

Hire Strategies release their first e-recruitment report as part of an ongoing series about the real issues that employers face when implementing a direct resourcing strategy.

The report exposes astonishing facts about online inefficiency, lost talent and applicant discrimination - and how employers can avoid making the same mistakes.

Recruiting online has now been adopted by the majority of small, medium and large well known employers, yet most still do not know what to do or how to avoid the obvious mistakes. This being the case we wanted to find out to what extent it is really helping the employer but also if they treating applicants efficiently and fairly. To do this we undertook a mystery applicant programme and have detailed the results within our report.

The findings will astonish the reader with the apparent level of undetected discrimination taking place in online recruiting, and outlines the general issues that applicants face such as:

Up to 28% of the employers surveyed were overtly discriminating.
A further 14% of employers did not even bother to respond to applicants.

Clearly employers have a lot to do to improve their online recruiting capability to ensure they attract and hire great people.