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Welcome to issue 412 of the ukrecruiter newsletter. UK Recruiter Plus is officially launched today. Read on to find out more details about this new exciting offering from the people who bought you UK Recruiter and discover a special offer that’s available to all our subscribers! |
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Weekly Tips This week, to coincide with the launch of UK Recruiter Plus, we are looking at three common questions put to us by recruiters and highlighting articles on the new site that can provide you with the answers. Q1) I've got a loyal but small client base. How do I tap into this to generate additional business? A1) Generating Referrals Article Q2) Despite having been a recruiter for years I'm a little unsure as to all the intricacies of employment law. A2) Little Book of Employment Law Q3) I'm sure I ought to be making more of social media. A3) LinkedIn Guide for Recruiters and/or Twitter Guide for Recruiters The site contains over 200 articles at present so has the answers to many more questions troubling recruitment professionals on a daily basis. More information on the site can be found below or at www.ukrecruiterplus.co.uk
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Launch Announcement of UK Recruiter Plus This week UK Recruiter are launching the “definitive online guide” for the UK Recruitment Industry. Here we answer a few questions about the new offering. What is UK Recruiter Plus? UK Recruiter Plus (www.ukrecruiterplus.co.uk) is a comprehensive set of recruiter guides, advice and practical solutions on a wide range of subject matter. These guides are written by industry experts and professionals; offering a comprehensive overview of the world of recruitment to the subscriber. Their purpose is to provide trainee consultants, experienced recruiters or owners of recruitment companies, with essential information and guidance in their day-to-day recruitment operations. It is a subscription based service, where you pay an annual fee to access this information. Who has written the guides? We have approached some of our most trusted contacts and experienced individuals in the industry. All have had a wealth of exposure to the different issues, obstacles and real time experiences that are relevant to the content they have provided. Their background ranges from legal professionals, corporate finance executives and hands on recruitment directors/managers coming from small start up businesses and blue chip corporate companies. What are the benefits of membership? The main benefit is that the guides will help you become a better, more successful or more professional recruiter (or recruitment business) by gaining access to some of the most valuable and relevant information available. There are some other benefits which will only be available to subscribers: • Involvement in the UK Recruiter Plus mentoring scheme. These are small group workshops which will be hosted by industry experts or mentors;
across the range of subjects the subscription service gives access to.
These are run over the course of each year. Our first workshop sessions
are planned for early autumn. How much does it cost? Subscription to UK Recruiter Plus is £99 (inclusive of VAT) per annum. UK Recruiter are offering the first 100 subscribers a £25 cash-back discount. This £25 will be refunded to you following completion of the sign up and payment process. How do you to sign up? Visit http://www.ukrecruiterplus.co.uk/signup/ and complete the simple sign up form. Payment can be made with PayPal or by debit/credit card through our secure payment system. As a subscriber if you refer a friend or colleague to the site, UK Recruiter will pay you £10 for every one that signs up. For more details please contact Pieter at pieter@ukrecruiter.co.uk. |
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Article Two: What Makes a Great Corporate Recruiter? by Simon Meth - Part 2 Simon continues his list of top 38 capabilities which he started in issue 411 Although aimed at the corporate recruiter they are also directly or indirectly applicable to all other recruiters. No one person could possibly exhibit all of the qualities on this list. 18. Resume review skills - we could say that we look at resumes for a living. Great recruiters can review resumes quickly, identify strong candidates, and eliminate the unqualified candidates. Often it's what's missing from the resume that is most telling. 19. Closing and negotiation skills - it's a lot of work to move a candidate through the recruitment funnel. Strong closing skills maximize the percentage of candidates who accept our offers. Closing starts with the first conversation with the candidate and usually ends when they start work with us or decline our offer. 20. Be able to truthfully sell the company - closing isn't about making stuff up and convincing candidates to do things that they don't want to do. We all need to understand what's great about our company and where we have opportunities to improve so that we can sell the company in a fair and balanced way. 21. Persuasive - you'll use your powers of persuasion whenever you attempt to close a candidate on an opportunity or encourage a hiring manager to interview a candidate. 22. Hire for the future and for scalability - with every hire we make we are building teams of people. It's important to hire the right people that will make a positive difference for years to come. Today's candidates often turn into tomorrow's hiring managers. Are you hiring people who can continue to grow and develop their skills? 23. Relationship builder - our work is all about building relationships with our candidates and internal customers. Build strong bonds and great things will happen. 24. Flexibility - wait five minutes and something will change. We've all experienced doing a lot of work on a requisition only to have it be put on hold. As they say, "them's the breaks!" When something like that happens, do you let it ruin your whole day or week or do you get to work on the most important thing on your desk? 25. Tolerance of ambiguity - sometimes you won't have all the information that you believe you need and you won't be able to get it. You have a choice, stop work and wait or take some action and see what happens. Great recruiters will do the latter. 26. Understand the company culture - some candidates will thrive here and others will fail dismally. It's our job to understand what works and what doesn't. 27. Create business value - do your internal customers see you as an administrator or as a trusted business partner? You can't create value unless it's the latter. 28. Sense of urgency - Part of our job is to instill a sense of urgency in our hiring managers and our candidates. 29. Able to keep confidential information confidential - this is self evident 30. Integrity-in a corporate environment, any cutting of corners, untruths, or sloppy work will eventually be discovered. 31. Methodical - we have a lot to do and a lot of process to follow. A haphazard approach is not the best way to get the most quality work done. 32. Makes mutually beneficial hires - we're not just filling requisitions here! Every hire that we make should be the right thing for company and the new hire. 33. Knowledge of govement employment regulations - this is self evident. 34. Candidate control - is often associated with agency recruitment but it's equally important in a corporate environment. For example, do you know what other opportunities your candidate has, what their motivations are for relocating to the area, if they have support for the change in employment from their family? If you don't then you have little candidate control. 35. Have a thick skin - people say and do things that we often can't believe. It isn't personal and it isn't about you. 36. Ambassador - be an ambassador for your company in every interaction you have at work and away from work. You may be surprised what comes your way as a result. 37. Expert on competitors - the more you know about your competitors the better you'll be at working with candidates. Your closing percentage will increase and your sourcing abilities will improve with the more you know. 38. Understand that time kills all deals - this is the classic last but not least statement. Candidates have a shelf life. Business needs have a shelf life. To put that another way, if you wait too long your competitors will hire the best candidates and your business areas will find another way to get the work done without you.
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Online Recruitment Update Hitwise top 10 Recruitment
Sites, week ending 11th July 2009 Louise's UK Recruiter blog Discussion Board Summary |
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