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		<title>Recruitment Blogs: 101 Things to write about</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Headwordth is the owner of Sirona Consulting,and helps &#38; advises companies about recruitment strategy, processes, methods and how to use social media as recruiting tools.
 
If you blog about recruitment, and in any way and constantly get stuck for subjects to blog on, take a look at my list of 101 Things to write about on a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jobs-ireland.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Andy-Headworth.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-183" title="Andy Headworth" src="http://www.jobs-ireland.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Andy-Headworth.jpg" alt="Andy Headworth" width="80" height="80" /></a><strong>Andy Headwordth</strong> is the owner of Sirona Consulting,and helps &amp; advises companies about recruitment strategy, processes, methods and how to use social media as recruiting tools.</p>
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<p>If you blog about recruitment, and in any way and constantly get stuck for subjects to blog on, take a look at my list of <strong>101 Things to write about on a recruitment blog</strong> &#8211; I hope it helps you in your writing quest:</p>
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<p>1.    Tell people about you and your role in the company</p>
<p>2.    Tell them about your company</p>
<p>3.    Take videos for your premises &#8211; maybe a video tour?</p>
<p>4.    Interview some of your suppliers (including photographs and maybe video?)</p>
<p>5.    Interview some of your clients (including photographs and maybe video?)</p>
<p>6.    Interview really good candidates about their experiences with your company</p>
<p>7.    Customer case studies</p>
<p>8.    Stories of customers gone wrong</p>
<p>9.    Tell people about the best consultant you ever met and why they were good</p>
<p>10.    Talking about the worst insult ever employed (make this one more humorous)</p>
<p>11.    Share your business’s successes</p>
<p>12.    Take this further and break it down into more details specialised areas within your specific industry</p>
<p>13.    Write about your competition – who is the competition?</p>
<p>14.    Write about their products and how they differ from yours</p>
<p>15.    Tell people how to get the most from your customer service department</p>
<p>16.    The best way that people can suggest improvements to your service</p>
<p>17.    Tell people about projects are you currently working on</p>
<p>18.    How do you work with your clients</p>
<p>19.    How do you expect your clients to work with you</p>
<p>20.    Break down each of your products and explain in more detail (maybe video) <a id="more"></a></p>
<p>21.    How does your approach differ to that of your competitors?</p>
<p>22.    Give examples of clients that have used different parts of the services and get quotes from them on their success</p>
<p>23.    Identify innovative new methods or products in the marketplace</p>
<p>24.    Five tips for getting the most out of working with your company</p>
<p>25.    Tell people about you as a person -  what make you tick</p>
<p>26.    Tell people about your company and your staff – video is great for this</p>
<p>27.    Tell people of your growth plans</p>
<p>28.    Tell people what your business worries for your industry i.e. £ vs. $</p>
<p>29.    Share some funny stories of mistakes you have previously made</p>
<p>30.    Share some funny stories of your industry that you have read in the press</p>
<p>31.    Tell people about any anniversaries you have e.g. five years in business</p>
<p>32.    Tell people about new products or services</p>
<p>33.    Conduct a poll, related to your industry</p>
<p>34.    Take a look the tools you use online in your industry sector</p>
<p>35.    Create easy 5 or 10 point tips to using these tools effectively</p>
<p>36.    Describe an interesting conversation with a client and the outcome</p>
<p>37.    Describing interesting conversations with a candidates and their insights</p>
<p>38.    What are the industry clichés and how they relevant are they</p>
<p>39.    The latest new buzzwords in your sector</p>
<p>40.    Describing some of your professional habits at work (I don&#8217;t mean the bad ones)</p>
<p>41.    Ask people&#8217;s opinions about these habits and share the answers</p>
<p>42.    Write about the person that mentored you when you first started in recruitment</p>
<p>43.    Who&#8217;d you look up to in recruitment and admire</p>
<p>44.    Who do you see as the new up-and-coming stars in recruitment and why</p>
<p>45.    Explore recruitment in different countries relevant to your sector or industry</p>
<p>46.    Tell people interesting travel stories related to jobs and to work</p>
<p>47.    Share funny candidate experiences from interviews</p>
<p>48.    Review products from your industry</p>
<p>49.    Describe your utopian ideas for recruitment – what would you like to see</p>
<p>50.    Tell people your opinions about the industry are you working in</p>
<p>51.    Tell people about your opinions on recruitment</p>
<p>52.    Tell people about your opinions on other recruitment products or services</p>
<p>53.    Use your knowledge and history of your sector to explain how things have changed over the last few years</p>
<p>54.    Interview people from your industry at all levels (ideally on video)</p>
<p>55.    By reading magazines, find interesting quotes that people have come up with in relation to sectors within your industry</p>
<p>56.    Share industry stories that you have read and comment on them</p>
<p>57.    Use other people&#8217;s blog content to create a story that is interesting i.e. linking to another blog post you want to pass comment on</p>
<p>58.    Praise people and congratulate them, be a genuinely nice person!</p>
<p>59.    Look at the trends in your industry</p>
<p>60.    What is the latest news in your sector</p>
<p>61.    What are the good trade magazines that people should be reading in your industry</p>
<p>62.    What are the trade magazines that people should be reading in the recruitment sector</p>
<p>63.    Tell people about your first day in recruitment</p>
<p>64.    Tell people about the tools you used when you first started recruitment</p>
<p>65.    Share of bio of yourself with your readers</p>
<p>66.    Do you have some radical ideas about your sector/industry</p>
<p>67.    Describe a ‘day in the life’ of you at work</p>
<p>68.    Describe a day working as part of your team</p>
<p>69.    Share some of your skills and knowledge</p>
<p>70.    Some ‘how to’ guides, related to your role</p>
<p>71.    Tell people of your worst experiences as a recruitment consultant</p>
<p>72.    Tell people about the best experiences you&#8217;ve had as a recruitment consultant</p>
<p>73.    Track the news and find a newsworthy story in your industry or sector</p>
<p>74.    Create a list, the top 10 ATS Vendors, the Top 5 social networks</p>
<p>75.    Have a moan -  there is nothing like going off on a rant</p>
<p>76.    How do you use Facebook in your job</p>
<p>77.    What do you think of Facebook in the recruitment of Arena</p>
<p>78.    Should recruiters actually embraced Facebook</p>
<p>79.    What are the pitfalls of your company using Facebook to recruit</p>
<p>80.    How do you engage with my candidates</p>
<p>81.    How do you engage with my clients</p>
<p>82.    What technology do you use on a day-to-day basis from my job</p>
<p>83.    What latest technology would you like to use a day-to-day basis</p>
<p>84.    Tell people about the last industry conference you attended</p>
<p>85.    Tell people about bad conference experiences you&#8217;ve had</p>
<p>86.    What are the biggest big business issues you&#8217;re facing right now</p>
<p>87.    Why did you join your company and what attracted you to them</p>
<p>88.    How do you use twitter in recruitment</p>
<p>89.    How can you use social media in the recruiting environment to recruit</p>
<p>90.    Examine the differences in the generations in your particular industry i.e. gen Y gen X , baby boomers etc</p>
<p>91.    How could your industry use social media better</p>
<p>92.    What do you enjoy most about working in your industry</p>
<p>93.    Share some presentations you have previously delivered  (via slide share)</p>
<p>94.    How do you build a lifelong relationship with your candidates</p>
<p>95.    Talk about your brand as an employer brand</p>
<p>96.    How does your brand compare to other competitors in the market place you&#8217;re in</p>
<p>97.    How do you use social networking to find candidates in your sector</p>
<p>98.    Share with people some of the things you like doing when you&#8217;re networking</p>
<p>99.    Do some industry book reviews and share those with people</p>
<p>100.    Play futurologist, predict what will happen in the future in your industry</p>
<p>101.    10 tips for a newbie entering the recruitment industry</p>
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