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Group Pruduct Manager – to £40k, Wiltshire | Dyson
December 8, 2009 – 3:02 am | No Comment
Group Pruduct Manager – to £40k, Wiltshire | Dyson

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Senior Strategy Manager – to £85k, Berkshire | O2
December 8, 2009 – 1:26 am | No Comment
Senior Strategy Manager – to £85k, Berkshire | O2

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How do recruiters find the best candidates?
December 7, 2009 – 9:38 am | 4 Comments
How do recruiters find the best candidates?

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Recruiters need to evolve to stay ahead in the race for talent attraction
Since the economic downturn many questions have been raised about the future of the staffing industry and the validity of traditional recruiters in…

How social media is teaching us to live like ants and why LinkedIn is the Queen…
November 26, 2009 – 11:50 am | 2 Comments
How social media is teaching us to live like ants and why LinkedIn is the Queen…

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How learning from nature can progress online networking

As ants are social insects, they are unable to live on their own so survive in organized communities, or colonies. An ant colony starts with a reproductive female…

How being creative will get you a job in marketing and what to do with your degree
November 26, 2009 – 11:20 am | 4 Comments
How being creative will get you a job in marketing and what to do with your degree

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Marketing is one of those sexy industries where you are paid good money to serenade celebrities at swanky champagne events and receive free gifts from big corporate brands as reward for your efforts in piecing together…

How to use social media to find your next job
November 26, 2009 – 11:01 am | One Comment
How to use social media to find your next job

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Why the traditional search and apply process is being left behind
“Between current economic conditions and the technological evolution of the Internet, the traditional approach most jobseekers have taken in the past is no longer viable,”…

Is the role of the traditional recruiter being eroded by social networking?
November 26, 2009 – 10:19 am | 2 Comments
Is the role of the traditional recruiter being eroded by social networking?

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What impact is social media having on recruitment?
This question was recently posed as a LinkedIn discussion by a senior figure of a marketing recruitment company. This was my response to the current ticking bomb of…

UK Marketing Recruitment Company Launches Freelancer of the Year Awards 2009
November 24, 2009 – 4:58 pm | No Comment
UK Marketing Recruitment Company Launches Freelancer of the Year Awards 2009

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*** PRESS RELEASE ***
LONDON, UK, (Xchangeteam – http://www.xchangeteam.com), November 2009 – Leading freelance recruiter Xchangeteam has launched its Freelancer of the Year Awards 2009, which celebrates the excellent work undertaken by freelancers within the Marketing,…

The Manchester Link-up: networking your way to a successful career
November 24, 2009 – 3:26 pm | 4 Comments
The Manchester Link-up: networking your way to a successful career

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How face-to-face interaction helped Manchester’s marketing community

On 18th November 2009 the UK’s largest marketing jobs advertising platform hosted its inaugural networking event in Manchester.  More than 130 marketing, media and communications exponents descended on the…

King quotes about social networking – made in Manchester
November 20, 2009 – 2:52 pm | 2 Comments
King quotes about social networking – made in Manchester

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The OMJ Manchester Link-up caused quite a stir and little wonder with so many fantastic attendees looking for marketing jobs, networking to build contacts and surreptitiously seeking potential staff.
Of course, no social networking event would…

How to find a job using your marketing degree
November 11, 2009 – 4:20 pm | One Comment
How to find a job using your marketing degree

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You’ve got your marketing degree but what else should you be doing to ensure employers are attracted to you?
 
What are the biggest challenges facing university graduates who are looking to secure career positions?  More…

How I spent the night flirting at the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORA)
November 6, 2009 – 5:05 pm | One Comment
How I spent the night flirting at the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORA)

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What is the difference between speed networking and speed dating?  After my unplanned social experiment at this media event, I’m not quite sure there is one…
 
So last night my compatriots and I hauled on…

Job boards versus recruitment agencies: the gathering storm
November 5, 2009 – 8:55 am | No Comment
Job boards versus recruitment agencies: the gathering storm

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When the jobs market recovers will it be recruitment agencies or job boards who prevail? Will there be room for both?
“We are going to recover from this downturn, and when we do, the talent shortage…

Recruitment figures show signs of improvement for the third month running
November 4, 2009 – 11:53 pm | No Comment
Recruitment figures show signs of improvement for the third month running

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The recruitment market is looking more positive as the growth of permanent and temporary staff appointments has now reached two-year and 16-month highs, respectively.
 
According to the latest Report on Jobs from the Recruitment and…

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