If you’ve been following us on LinkedIn or Instagram, you may have noticed we started posting regular sourcing challenges. Now you can stretch your sourcing muscles every week by trying to answer Katharine’s cryptic questions. To get these challenges straight to...
Did ‘Projects’ just become a key part of LinkedIn Profiles?
Add Projects to your LinkedIn profile to improve SEO after LinkedIn restricts what information can be indexed by search engines. LinkedIn recently removed some key sections from our public profiles. Read about them here. Most notably, our Headlines and...
LinkedIn makes big changes to Profiles affecting X-Ray search
LinkedIn recently removed some key pieces of information from our public profiles. Your public LinkedIn profile is what can be seen by someone who is not logged into the website. It’s also the version of your profile that is visible to search engines. What...
Start 2024 with 12 weeks of Sourcing Training
I provide online training courses via Recruiting Gym. This year, Recruiting Gym are opening up the live training provision that goes along with our main sourcing courses for anyone to join. Q1 will be led by me and have a specific focus on using LinkedIn to its...
The best LinkedIn #hashtags for your #MeetYourRecruiter posts
LinkedIn #hashtags to help your content be seen. When someone you’re connected to on LinkedIn uses a hashtag you follow, you’re more likely to see their content. So, when you make posts on LinkedIn, it makes sense to add some hashtags. But not just any hashtags, you...
LinkedIn Update: Changes to the ‘Activity’ Section
New LinkedIn update to the ‘Activity’ Section on LinkedIn profiles, makes it far more obvious to the viewer whether the person they are viewing has posted or interacted on LinkedIn recently. The ‘Activity’ section is located near the top of LinkedIn profiles, above...
Sourcing Hat is now Cup & Sourcer
We are rebranding and changing the company name from Sourcing Hat to Cup & Sourcer! Here's why. In 2012 I registered Sourcing Hat as a limited company. I’d been debating a name, and nothing felt right until this idea dawned on me. I had talked about putting my...
The Benefits of ChatGPT for Recruiters
As a recruiter, your time is valuable. You have a lot of responsibilities, from sourcing and screening candidates to coordinating interviews and negotiating offers. It can be tough to keep up with all of the demands on your time, and anything that can help you work...
A Review of ChatGPT from OpenAI
As a writer the announcement of ChatGPT back in November 2022 made my heart sink. The creativity and imagination we writers love to use, could surely not be recreated by AI tech? But having used OpenAI’s DALL.E 2 image tool, I knew there was a possibility that the AI...
New Linkedin Feature: About This Profile
Have you heard about LinkedIn's new "About this profile" feature?LinkedIn doesn't tend to shout about new features, so it's very possible that this is the first you are hearing of it. I have to say, it is something from an employer or recruiter’s point of view, that I...
Are You Incepting Desirable Talent Ready For January?
Is anyone actually looking for a new job right now, in December? Yes, of course.
But there are also a lot of people that are putting it off and people who haven’t even thought about it yet.
It’s easy to get caught up in the holiday season. Things are winding down now. Secret Santa names are being pulled out of hats (virtual hats, there are apps for Secret Santa now). Outfits are being bought for parties. Christmas cards are being written or worried about. It’s easy to forget that work might no longer be 100% satisfying.
After the second day of cold turkey sandwiches though… that’s when it’ll set in. 12 more months stretching ahead. Do you really want to spend it doing that? Doing it for that business? Doing it with those people? Doing it in that city?
You might make a New Year’s Resolution to find a new job. Perhaps have a poke around on LinkedIn to see if anyone you like is hiring. Maybe Google for some opportunities a little closer to home.
But wait… didn’t someone message you a few weeks ago. Where’s that email?
But wait… didn’t a recruiter follow me on Twitter a few weeks ago? Let me go back through my notifications.
But wait… didn’t I get a LinkedIn connection request from someone at That Company before we broke up for the holidays?
It’s worth leaving messages and breadcrumb trails during December (and all year round). You never know who might remember you when the time is right.
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