Being chatty

Running a jobs board can make you feel a bit like an outsider, neither one thing or the other. Take our small team of 8 here at Nurses.co.uk; you could argue that we’re neither recruiters or representatives of the nursing industry. I’d strongly argue that we are, partly, both. We certainly understand and have experience [...]

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 [...]

Don’t let Mr X get you on ageist job ads

I was listening to Radio Five Live tonight. Apparently, there’s a man (called Mr X) who has won over 100 legal disputes against companies over their ageist job ads. It turns out that Mr X is more in to profiteering than campaigning for the rights of all job-seekers. Mr X has had most success on the term [...]