Shane's Recruitment Blog

Crowd Sourcing, Big Data and why it makes my head hurt.
Linkedin has turned off their Skills pages, it will be sadly missed. Perhaps it’s true that you only appreciate something when it’s gone. The Skills pages were very useful, it gave recruiters the ability to enter one skill, and LinkedIn would instantly give you a list of other skills that

Finding Candidates from a Photograph
This video is looking at sourcing techniques based on image searching. I’ve mentioned these techniques on other videos but I know it’s easy to miss the occasional click here and there so I thought these to handy tips deserve a video of their own. I was at the SOSUEU Sourcing

Jim Stroud – Resume Forensics and Sourcing
In this week’s webinar, I’m delighted to be joined by Jim Stroud talking about Sourcing and Recruitment. Jim is Director of Sourcing and Social Strategy at Bernard Hodes Group, and he’s a world-famous Sourcer, Conference Speaker and Blogger. He has recently written a book on finding passive candidates on Google

How to Find People in a Location
This week’s webinar is all about Location-based Candidate Sourcing. Very often, my sourcing demonstrations find candidates in big cities with big populations. But what happens when you want candidates in a remote area with perhaps only a few thousand people in the population? This is a common problem and made

Greg Savage – The Future of Recruitment
Recruitment is Broken Many people will know Greg Savage through his blog, The Savage Truth, or indeed his illustrious career in the recruitment industry. I had the pleasure of hosting a webinar with Greg during which his message to the recruitment industry was a massive wake-up call. While many of

Google Plus for Recruiters
Google Plus is now the second-largest Social media site after Facebook with in excess of 359 million active users. Google Plus is, to some extent, still the new kid on the block compared to the other big names of Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin. It has certainly learned from its competitors,