Nursing recruiters: How to prepare your nursing job ad

This short blog is for direct employers, rather than professional recruiters. It follows a phone call I had last Friday. A care home manager, running her own nursing home (EMI), asked if her job ad needs to look like the other job ads on our care home jobs board, Carehomejobs.com. I said, probably not. The [...]

How we attract job seeking Nurses to Nurses.co.uk

There are three questions we always get asked by prospective Nurses.co.uk clients: how much do you charge? do you offer free trials? how do you market yourselves? The last question, about marketing, always trips me up. This is because the person asking is hoping for a relatively quick answer. I think this marketing question has [...]

Online recruitment tip – get back to basics

Social networking is all well and good. And most, like me, have jumped on the bandwagon for good or bad. But chasing the next best thing in online recruitment practice shouldn’t be at the expense of traditional procedures. A good, well-written job description is still important. We still see some atrociously written job ads on [...]

Recruiters: If a jobs worth posting, it’s worth posting well

We’re sick of duplicate jobs. There’s such a powerful argument against doing it. Users don’t like it, search engines don’t like it, the REC guidelines suggest against it. So here at Nurses.co.uk we’re going to set ourselves the challenge of converting all healthcare recruiters to become better job advertisers. Our site, Nurses.co.uk, has 1000s of [...]