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The blog contains our opinions and views as well as, where identified, those of others. The content is job market, recruitment and recruitment-technology centric - reflecting our business. We hope you will find it informative and some items even entertaining. It is provided under our published corporate Terms of Use and does not constitute professional advice. Note: content may also be syndicated to other websites, with our Approved Partners free to use and repurpose content as they see fit.

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The new Google Analytics

If you deal with websites, you will likely have had some exposure to Google Analytics. It is the toolkit that google supplies to give you data and insights on your website traffic and visitors.  There are other tools available. But Google Analytics is the one that is used by most webmasters, and its the one we also recommend. Read on for a laypersons update of what it might do for your website and reporting.

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COVID-19 and Employment

It's been a very uncertain time with the COVID-19 Pandemic. Unprecedented - at least in modern times.  Many are worried about what the future may hold.  Not least what the possible effects may be on employment. This post looks at employment (and unemployment) trends in some of our key markets:  USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand during the midst of COVID-19.

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Mobiles and Recruiting

A look at how mobile are being used in recruitment and how you can make sure that you are not losing out to candidates job hunting on their phones.

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Recruiting Metrics - Part 2

Part 2 of our Blog post series on Reporting.  This one is about common metrics being used.  Please see the previous post: Part 1, for a look at the more general issues of reporting in recruiting.

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Recruiting Metrics - Part 1

This post we are looking at the issues of reporting in recruiting.  So why use metrics, what ones should you use and how do can they provide something meaningful that will help your recruiting activity?  It's a two part blog - this is Part 1.

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The Business Case for RPO

This post we have a go at looking at reasons to outsource recruitment.  Called RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) this is our perspective on the business case drivers behind RPO.

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