Want to see some top HR online marketing? Blackbird recommends the new careers site of Care UK, the health and social care company.
We particularly like the video on the front page, a kind of ‘new readers start here’ guide which explains what Care UK is and does. But then we would like it, given that Blackbridge wrote, designed, cast and produced the little fella.
If you were a dinosaur, what would you be? Name five uses for staplers, without the staples. If you were for sale on eBay, what would be the asking price?
No, Blackbird has not been overcome by irrational musing. These are some of the questions posed to candidates following the comeback of so-called ‘extreme interviewing.’
What is it? Well, as with ‘stress interviewing’ (remember Steve Jobs and his impromptu chicken impressions?) quirky and seemingly irrelevant questions are fired at candidates to test their ability to think laterally and on their feet.
Blackbird is spectacularly proud to report that Blackbridge is nominated for two gongs in this year’s Recruiter Awards for Excellence.
On May 2nd we’ll be at the Grosvenor House with STA Travel (nominated in the Most Effective Employer Brand Development category), and Heathrow Airport (nominated in the Most Effective Recruitment Campaign category).
Heathrow has been nominated for its campaign attracting ‘airport architects’ into the rapidly-developing transport hub, whilst STA Travel has been nominated for its global employer brand, based around the theme of ‘Face to Face’.
Blackbird hears tell of a law firm in Florida which has sacked fourteen employees purely because they didn’t like the colour of their shirts.
It seems that the employees of the Deerfield branch of Elizabeth R Wellborn P.A. were in the habit of wearing orange shirts every Friday pay-day, because they enjoyed looking alike when they went out drinking cocktails after work.
Stockholm’s South General Hospital has placed an online ad saying that it is looking for ‘TV series hot’ staff to work during the summer holidays.
But Nursing Manager Jörgen Andersson claims that the hospital are not really recruiting on looks, claiming the ad only sought to grab attention and ‘stick out a bit’.
According to press reports, the accountancy branch of consultancy firm KPMG has used voicemail to warn staff that they could be at risk of redundancy.
The management apparently used a message pre-recorded by Senior Partner Julian Thomas to confirm substantial reductions in profitability and the onset of a consultation period. Employees were directed to the message via an e-mail.
Pinterest, the new buzzword on the lips of social media enthusiasts, is the breakout social network of 2012. The online pinboard where you can ‘organise and share things you love’ has so far attracted 12 million users.
Blackbird has always liked pinboards in the real world. Without them where would one keep takeaway menus, children’s drawings and six month old dentist appointment cards? Initially, he struggled to see how such an unstructured concept could have any role to play in structuring the lives and affairs of social media types.
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