Introduction My biggest recruitment mistakes were failing to verify candidates’ employment history and references. I made these mistakes several times back when I was building my own recruitment agency. Without verifying employment history and references, I hired, among others, a person who claimed years of experience at Company X in Position Y, when in reality …
A month ago I ran a LinkedIn poll about what recruiters would do if they received a reference about a candidate that was obtained in a way that violates GDPR rules. I created the poll while gathering material for an article about candidate verification tools and their legality under GDPR. Below is the poll question, …
What are video messages and how do they differ from video calls? A video call or video conference is a live remote meeting between two or more people using video. Video messages are different because the participants don’t meet simultaneously. Messages are recorded and sent the same way you’d send a text or a chat …
Since 2017, LinkedIn has been fighting a legal battle against scraping — the automated collection of data available on websites. I wrote about this a few years ago in an article about automating LinkedIn activity. LinkedIn automation was a hot topic back then, especially in the context of browser extensions used by recruiters and ATS …
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2021 was a period of a strong rebound in recruitment companies and temporary work agencies. Check details in the report published by the Polish HR Forum.
Candidate Ghosting – what it is and how to avoid it? Ghosting in recruitment – what does it mean? Suppose a candidate suddenly stops contacting the recruiter, does not answer phone calls, does not reply to messages, and de facto disappears from the recruitment process without an apparent reason. In that case, we are dealing …
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