Social Housing and Social Media hit the slopes

A range of delegates from social housing organisations across the midlands and the North came together to share their experiences with using social media to engage with their residents, suppliers and stakeholders and get some great ideas for how to take things forward.

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Congratulations! You got the job. That’ll be £25

Virgin Atlantic (and some of their competitors) make it standard practice that candidates offered a role are then approached by a 3rd party agency to do a criminal and employment background check, which doesn't proceed until the candidate pays £25!

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Moving on up or keeping you down: Social mobility & recruitment dodgy dealing in the news.

In the UK, our Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launched the government's "Business Compact" on social mobility. There's a range of provisions involved in the scheme, a lot of them aimed at reducing the impact of a "jobs for the boys" and "who you know, not what you know" culture in UK recruitment.

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New from LinkedIn: company status updates, great news for employers

You can claim ownership of your company page, fill out some basic details, add some copy and even create a product showcase but it's been very difficult to start to build a community around your company page, or to start conversations with an interested community of candidates.

Facebook Timeline: More big changes to your profile, coming next week.

The small changes that have been made in the past couple of weeks included the ability to subscribe to a users updates without actually connecting them with as a friend, better per post privacy (just like Google+) and more visibly a new mini stream of latest updates in the top right corner of the chat sidebar.

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Design classics. What’s yours?

Design is not art, it's not produced to be admired or studied. But it has to serve a purpose, achieve an objective or solve a problem.

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Searching candidate profiles on multiple sites? Easy!

We've seen an increasing number of bloggers and organisations talking about "X-Ray searching" and Boolean searching sites for candidates as if it's some radically new invention and not a feature of search engines that's been around well over a decade!

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Google Plus Field Trial: First impressions

Google Plus has just launched as a field test, here's what our first thoughts and a rundown of how it works.

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#TRULeeds day 2 - Employer branding, SEO, Social recruitment & Sourcing

I have to say I was a bit sceptical about this unconference milarky at first, but the informal atmosphere at #TRULeeds made for a refreshing change from more traditional conferences I've attended in the past.

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#TRULeeds Day 1 - Here be Dragons…

Today saw the latest incarnation of Bill Boorman's TRU recruitment un-conferences roll into town with the first day of #TRULeeds at Broadcasting Place in Leeds.

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Delivering a new brand in 6 hours

See what we got up to at Leeds Digital Festival Design Day.