Jobsite’s summer 2011 quarterly review of job seekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market, is now available to download.

The report – run for us by independent brand tracking agency HPI – shows the most recent developments in the ways job seekers are going about their search.
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As platinum sponsors of TruLondon we are always determined to bring the best conversations from the event to our clients, candidates and contacts that are unable to attend.

At this week’s TruLondon 4 we have created a new destination to round up all the content from the event – the TruLondon site where you will be able to follow all the tweets, all the live blogs and photos…and the Livestream.

We started livestreaming discussions from the Jobsite studio at TruLondon 3 and you may have seen two of them on our blog posts ‘5 Things You Need to Know about Talent Communities’ and ‘3 Live Video Career Tips’.

For TruLondon 4 the studio is back! We have secured the services of DeeDee Doke (Editor of Recruiter Magazine) as our moderator and she will be hosting conversations across the two days on topics as diverse as: Continue reading “Livestream – Bringing you the Best Conversations from TruLondon” »

As part of the countdown to TruLondon 4 we are bringing you the third show in our HR Happy Hour Europe series of live internet radio shows…and this time we will be previewing the event!

It will take place at 8.00pm on Wednesday 31st August, and our special guests will be Jason Lauritsen and Master Burnett, the two track leaders that we are flying over to the UK especially for TruLondon 4, taking the opportunity to set the scene for their own tracks over the two day event.

We have already posted guest blogs from both speakers – Jason Lauritsen’s were on Quality of Hire and Talent Acquisition whilst Master Burnett wrote about Employer Brand Management – and now you have the chance to find out more from them.

What is HR Happy Hour Europe?

HR Happy Hour was one of the first live internet radio shows aimed at bringing together thought leaders and practitioners from HR, Recruiting, Leadership and Social Media and offering them a unique weekly platform on which to hear, discuss and debate the most important issues. After 2 years and almost 100 episodes it is now one of the most listened to internet talk shows and is a weekly fixture in the calendars of Human Resource and Recruiting professionals across the US. In May 2011 we partnered with the founder, Steve Boese, to bring the conversation to Europe. Continue reading “Talking Talent Anarchy, Employer Branding and TruLondon 4 on HR Happy Hour Europe!” »

It’s TruLondon 4 week, and today we bring you a message from Jason Lauritsen, out first guest track leader.

Jason has a background in Recruitment, HR, Leadership and Social Capital and is a respected blogger and presenter at US conferences. He is known for challenging the status quo and stimulating thought provoking group discussions amongst the Recruitment and HR community – you can see why we were keen to fly him over for his first ever UK appearance!

Here Jason tells you a bit more about his background and what to expect…

When we announced Jason Lauritsen as a guest track leader for the Jobsite sponsored TruLondon 4 we told you that he would bring a different perspective to challenge our thinking on Talent and Recruiting. After all, why call your business Talent Anarchy if you’re not going to try and re-write the rule book!

Now we bring you his second guest blog post, in which he gets to the heart of what talent is and why recruiting in itself is only part of the story.

“I’m not sure exactly when this happened, but at some point in the last decade it became the trend to replace the functional description “Recruiting” with “Talent Acquisition”.  Don’t get me wrong, Talent Acquisition sounds cool and progressive.  It was in keeping with the other trends around HR to focus on Talent.  However, I don’t think the two mean the same thing.  And, frankly, I think we still practice a whole lot more recruiting than we do talent acquisition.  Hear me out.

When you do a quick Google search for a definition of the word “recruit,” here’s some of what you’ll find (these courtesy of www.thefreedictionary.com): Continue reading “Are We Really in the Talent Acquisition Business?” »