Shane McCusker
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Sourcing Vacancies

There are no shortages of clever ideas and techniques to help recruiters find candidates. Recently I've been looking at ways to help my recruitment agency customers use the internet for business development and source new clients and new vacancies. Ideally I'm looking for vacancies that no one else knows about to try and secure exclusive business or at least get a head start on the search.,I ran the first of a new series of recruitment webinars earlier this week talking about a Google Custom…See More
Blog post by Shane McCusker Feb 5
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Recruitment - Sourcing Made Simple. Find Candidates and Vacancies on the Internet for free

This webinar is about tools and techniques for Recruiters and Recruitment agencies to find candidates and vacancies using free recruitment software. Shane Mc...
Video posted by Shane McCusker Feb 5
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The Boolean Bar group is for sourcers that want to share Boolean Searches and help others tactically create and integrate NEW ways of finding candidates. I hope you all can take part in the conversation!See More
Shane McCusker joined Ryan Leary's group Jul 22, 2011
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Tim Gregory and Shane McCusker are now friends Mar 1, 2011
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Tim Gregory commented on Shane McCusker's blog post 'The End of the South African Recruitment Industry.'
Thanks for highlighting this Shane, I really hope that the proposed legislation is amended
Mar 1, 2011
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The End of the South African Recruitment Industry.

New Legislation proposed in South Africa could see the end of the Recruitment industry as we currently know it. It is proposed to outlaw all forms of temporary and contract recruitment forcing all employers to employ staff on a permanent basis only.This will of course have very dramatic effects for the industry and the millions of temporary and contract workers currently employed in South Africa whose employers will be forced to offer permanent employment or terminate…See More
A blog post by Shane McCusker was featured Mar 1, 2011
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The End of the South African Recruitment Industry.

New Legislation proposed in South Africa could see the end of the Recruitment industry as we currently know it. It is proposed to outlaw all forms of temporary and contract recruitment forcing all employers to employ staff on a permanent basis only.This will of course have very dramatic effects for the industry and the millions of temporary and contract workers currently employed in South Africa whose employers will be forced to offer permanent employment or terminate…See More
Blog post by Shane McCusker Mar 1, 2011
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Changing a recruitment company and why it won't work.

I recently attended a HR and recruitment forum and listened to speaker, Carron Hinton , talk about Change management. I've never really though about this topic before and as I listened it dawned on me that I really wished I had.Carron talked about the differences between Operational Management and Change or Project management. It occurred to me that the normal management style of my customers (recruitment agency managers) is that all about Operations management and nothing to do with Project…See More
A blog post by Shane McCusker was featured May 27, 2010
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Why recruiters can't Change

Implementing an ATS is difficult and the normal recruitment management style makes it almost impossible.
Video posted by Shane McCusker May 26, 2010
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Changing a recruitment company and why it won't work.

I recently attended a HR and recruitment forum and listened to speaker, Carron Hinton , talk about Change management. I've never really though about this topic before and as I listened it dawned on me that I really wished I had.Carron talked about the differences between Operational Management and Change or Project management. It occurred to me that the normal management style of my customers (recruitment agency managers) is that all about Operations management and nothing to do with Project…See More
Blog post by Shane McCusker May 26, 2010
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Get more from what you know

Recruitment is an information business. Your ability to recruit is based solely on who and what you know, this is the commodity you sell. But in todays information age, where information is so plentiful, it is not enough simply to be in possession of information. To make money in recruitment you require the ability to extract value from the vast quantity of information that is available to you.Super Star recruiters do not have to work harder than average. They do not have to make twice as many…See More
Blog post by Shane McCusker Apr 29, 2010
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Shane McCusker commented on Ron Cottick's blog post '“Follow the rule candidates” – How you find them, or do you?'
As a developer of recruitment systems and an ex agency recruiter I agree. That said, simplicity is not as simple as it sounds. We spend a lot of time trying to simplify the user experience and cutting out the stuff that's not used. We focus on…
Apr 12, 2010
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30 minutes to become a genius or your money back.

I'm getting ready for truUSA in Madison WI in just over a week. Really looking forward to this, if it is anything like truLondon in Feb it will be a fantastic event.At truLondon I ran an impromptu track to create a few geniuses. We had ten people take part and all were transformed within the allotted 30 minutes.The process is actually quite simple. Firstly we ran a simple test of Intelligence, Dee Allen was the winner and borderline genius before we even started. After this we ran a creativity…See More
Blog post by Shane McCusker Apr 10, 2010
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Profile Information

Name
Shane McCusker
Job Title
MD
Company
Intelligence Software ltd
Which best describes your profession?
Vendor/Consultant
How many years have you been in the business?
5 - 9 years
Which industries do you work in now?
Technology
Are you interested in split placements?
no
What kind of networking are you open to?
Open networking
What recruiting tools can you not live without?
Intelligence Software
Website
http://www.intel-sw.com
Online profile/Homepage
http://www.intel-sw.com
Twitter Profile
http://www.twitter.com/1ntelligence

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Sourcing Vacancies

Posted on February 5, 2012 at 10:51am 0 Comments

There are no shortages of clever ideas and techniques to help recruiters find candidates. Recently I've been looking at ways to help my recruitment agency customers use the internet for business development and source new clients and new vacancies. Ideally I'm looking for vacancies that no one else knows about to try and secure exclusive business or at least get a head start on the search.,

I ran the first of a new series of recruitment webinars earlier this week talking about…

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Shane McCusker

The End of the South African Recruitment Industry.

Posted on March 1, 2011 at 4:30am 1 Comment

New Legislation proposed in South Africa could see the end of the Recruitment industry as we currently know it. It is proposed to outlaw all forms of temporary and contract recruitment forcing all employers to employ staff on a permanent basis only.

This will of course have very dramatic effects for the industry and the millions of temporary and contract workers currently employed in South Africa whose employers will be forced to offer permanent employment or terminate…

Continue
Shane McCusker

Changing a recruitment company and why it won't work.

Posted on May 26, 2010 at 5:20am 0 Comments

I recently attended a HR and recruitment forum and listened to speaker, Carron Hinton , talk about Change management. I've never really though about this topic before and as I listened it dawned on me that I really wished I had.



Carron talked about the differences between Operational Management and Change or Project management. It occurred to me that the normal management style of my customers (recruitment agency managers) is that all about Operations management and nothing to do…

Continue
Shane McCusker

Get more from what you know

Posted on April 29, 2010 at 1:44pm 0 Comments

Recruitment is an information business. Your ability to recruit is based solely on who and what you know, this is the commodity you sell. But in todays information age, where information is so plentiful, it is not enough simply to be in possession of information. To make money in recruitment you require the ability to extract value from the vast quantity of information that is available to you.


Super Star recruiters do not have to work harder than average. They do not have…
Continue
Shane McCusker

30 minutes to become a genius or your money back.

Posted on April 10, 2010 at 11:30am 0 Comments

I'm getting ready for truUSA in Madison WI in just over a week. Really looking forward to this, if it is anything like truLondon in Feb it will be a fantastic event.

At truLondon I ran an impromptu track to create a few geniuses. We had ten people take part and all were transformed within the allotted 30 minutes.

The process is actually quite simple. Firstly we ran a simple test of Intelligence, Dee Allen was the winner and borderline genius before we even started. After this…

Continue

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At 10:01am on February 21, 2010, SlouchSlouch said…
Hey Shane, what a week. Thanks for being a part of that. Keep those videos coming.
 
 
 

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