Louise's UK Recruiter Blog

Recruiter Poll - Reminder

Just a reminder that we have teamed up with Voyager to create a short survey about a few aspects of the recruitment industry.
 
We want to find out how professionals within our industry find their next role, use LinkedIn, if and how you network and your attitude to personal development and training.  We plan to use the results to support some blog posts here in the future (so please help me out by completing the survey!).

You don’t have to be a Voyager customer to take part, just click here.

I'm going to start writing about the results in the next couple of weeks.

 

Have you started to Twitter?

Back in April I wrote about why Twitter is good for recruiters.  I keep meaning to write an update on some recruitment specific applications.  So whilst that continues to sit on my "to do" list I wasted 15 minutes earlier trying to find "famous" people on Twitter:

 http://twitter.com/stephenfry

http://twitter.com/willcarling

http://twitter.com/JohnCleese

http://twitter.com/bobbyllew

http://twitter.com/Jeremy_Clarkson

http://twitter.com/richardbranson

No recruitment application at all - but a good example of how difficult it can be to get back into work mode after nearly two week's sitting around watching The Great Escape.

Hopefully, more relevant blogging tomorrow!

Recruiter's Digital Edition

I'm surprised that I can't find anyone else who has commented on this. 

At the start of the month I received an email with information of how I could "breeze through the latest issue" of Recruiter on my screen. 

Here's how it works: -
1. Click on the bottom corner to turn pages
2. Click on the page to enlarge articles
3. Click on web addresses to link directly to other websites

It certainly looks slick and it's easy to turn pages/zoom etc.  However, I found it annoying to have to keep zooming in and then out again as I read a story and then browsed for the next one I wanted to read.  I get that they wanted to keep the look of the printed publication but it's just not user friendly enough for me. 

Anyone else got any thoughts?

More on selling twitter names

On Monday I mentioned an article in PR week about companies being "brand-jacked" on Twitter.

Fliss, my eagle eyed proofer, spotted this follow up article:

Following last week's article in which Cow PR advised us to register our Twitter IDs to prevent us from being 'brand-jacked', Rainier PR discovered that Cow had not actually registered its own ID.

So, I had a little giggle and then realised that whilst I use louisetriance as my twitter "name" I'd left ukrecruiter completely unattended for anyone to pinch.  Doh!

Re-selling Twitter names

I remember years ago stories about how large corporates were "held to ransom" to buy their domain names because, believing the internet to be a fad, they didn't buy their "corporate" domain.  Is the same thing going to happen with Twitter?

According to an article on PR Week:

"Seven out of ten FTSE 100 companies are at risk of being 'brand-jacked' because they have left their ID unclaimed on blogging platform Twitter.

UK PROs have been warned to reserve these names after reports in the US last weekend revealed someone had set up a fake account for Exxon Mobil.

According to research by Cow PR, 69 Twitter names related to FTSE 100 firms are unregistered. Brand names including Domino's Pizza, Dulux Paints and Littlewoods are also on sale for £20 online."

It's not quite the 6 figure numbers being quoted for domain names, but might make some geek in a back bedroom (is that an outdated stereotype?!) a few quid.

Bluearrow, Odgers or Jobserve are still available if anyone wants to try making £60!