Shane's Recruitment Blog

Sunshine Foundation helping abandoned children
Yesterday I was speaking to a friend of mine, Marie O’Loan. Marie, along with her husband Aodh and a small number of others, run a charity called the Sunshine Foundation. Motivated by the suffering of abandoned children in Romania, in 2001, they set up a house to look after 10

3 Cool Linkedin Tools for Recruiters
This post was inspired by three free really cool LinkedIn tools for recruiters. After watching some videos by Jeremy Roberts on the Sourcecon site, I thought I’ll pull these tools together into one blog post. I got very excited and developed on Shane Bowen’s work to create my own tool

Recruitment Software
I’ve been trying to give a simple explanation of simple recruitment software. More often than not we hear requests for a super simple system that helps recruiters rather than get in the way. This is my explanation of all the things that Recruitment Software can do. (Recruitment Management System, ATS-

Outwit Hub – Scraping data from the internet – for recruiters
I wanted to do a short tutorial showing how Outwit Hub can be used to scrape data from the internet. Here, I am scraping my Twitter followers’ names, Twitter handles, and bios. But this technique can be used for almost anything. Please let me know what you think.

Automatically post Jobs to Twitter and LinkedIn
I was thinking about very simple ways to automatically post jobs from Intelligence through a recruitment web site and then to Twitter, LinkedIn, and all the other social channels. This is actually very easy to do. I’ve produced a video demonstrating how to do this with Hootsuite, which is completely

Finding Keywords for Recruiters
Following on from my last blog about LinkedIn skills pages, I found a fantastic tip from Jim Stroud on using Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) to find keywords. Linkedin Skills was very useful for finding related keywords and it could be that Google is even better. Check out my video