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IT is one of the hottest fields to work in as a recruiter, considering there is high demand for it, it is needed in just about every sector, and it tends to give you well-paid roles to fill. Many successful IT recruiters are people who previously worked in or studied IT, but found they preferred a more people focused job or a competitive sales environment for their career, rather than using their IT knowledge to work on projects or in the IT departments of companies. Others are people whose aspirations have always been in recruitment, and wh

Social media has changed a lot of things, and the amount of knowledge available to strangers about a given person is certainly one of them. This is definitely something people are using to do much more than check up on who their ex is dating – a recent survey found that 60% of employers research their job candidates on social media as part of the interview process.

Better Than References
While the fact that employers are becoming increasingly more likely to check out potential hires on social media may sound a bit d

Back in the day, if you knew someone who worked in one of those trendy offices that had a table football game and a PlayStation in a corner somewhere, it was a huge source of envy. How different, it seemed, life must be, if your working environment was a little bit fun, rather than a sea of battleship grey, livened up only by a noticeboard where every post had dodgy Microsoft Office clip art on it. Then, as we headed into the early 2000’s, more businesses started trying to make their work sites feel a bit more fashionable and fun, and in som

If you work in recruitment, you probably have a fairly wide mix of ages on your recruitment database when it comes to candidates. The generation known as ‘Millennials’, which depending on which definition you look at, usually includes people born between about 1982 and the early 2000’s, is now a huge feature of the working population, and older millennials – people now in their late twenties and early thirties – are also increasingly filling senior professional positions. Whether or not you yourself are a Millennial, it is likely you have a

Working from home is something that many jobs can now offer, but not every business has caught on to the benefits yet and many still tend to be reluctant to let people work remotely. There are obvious benefits to working from home for employees, reducing their cost in both time and money for getting to work, and allowing them to be more flexible when it comes to things like childcare, but what a lot of employers don’t consider is the benefits that they can also gain by allowing, or even encouraging, home working for people in roles that can

We recently announced the release of our new contract module, an addition to our cloud recruitment software that allows agencies to track contractor time using online timesheet management. This new module in the Chameleon-i recruitment management software suite was developed in answer to a common problem – paper time sheet systems are a pain for everyone involved. Time reporting is crucial when you have contractors, but filling out paper time sheets, getting them signed off by the employer and submitted to the agency is a chore, and far from

It is no big secret that rewarding and recognising people who perform well in any business is important in keeping people motivated, as well as ensuring they feel appreciated by the senior people in the business. In almost all competitive or sales based environments various methods can be used to reward excellence and incentivise staff to go the extra mile for the business, and recruitment is no exception. Different agencies use different ways to dish out rewards and appreciation to their top performers, and while there is no ‘one size fits

While there may be new rules on the horizon, currently it is pretty common practice when you want to know more about somebody the first place to turn is social media.

While LinkedIn is the first port of call in a professional environment – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are also used by a lot of employers to research potential new hires online. Some reports suggest that as many as 60% of overall employers do this, and you can expect this amount to be higher in the tech industry or in areas like marketing where employers tend to be ver

We have been talking a lot lately about spotajob.com – the job board that is fully integrated with Chameleon-i and lets you post unlimited live vacancies with the simple tick-of-a-box.

As spotajob.com will be going live in early September, we have configured things so that you can familiarise yourself with the portal. So, over the next couple of weeks, we would encourage you to upload your company logo and start populating the board

Many of us are heading off on our summer holidays soon, and sadly many of us still haven’t achieved that beach-bod we promised ourselves after the Christmas break.

This can be due to a number of reasons including long hours spent behind a desk and the temptation to eat less healthy convenience foods rather than use your rare free time shopping and cooking better things. Unfortunately, as well as taking its toll on your weight, the sedentary lifestyle that comes with most office jobs can also make you more vulnerable to stress, make it