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Testimonials

Please see below for testimonials from Insidejob's previous participants from various organisations.

Advanced Internet Sourcing
Essential Social Media for Recruitment
Essential Sourcing and Talent Pooling
Singapore Programs
General Testimonials

Advanced Internet Sourcing Program

Feedback from attendees:

Emily Austin, Strategic Sourcing Manager, American Express, March 2012
"The Advanced Internet Sourcing course was excellent! It was engaging with relevant content that revealed some great sourcing techniques to help us refine our competitive edge. It has certainly uncovered more hidden pathways to great quality candidates and really enhanced our ability in this area. I thoroughly recommend this course as high quality training that is easy to follow and will ensure you and your team delivers results. Thank you!"

Katia Ventura, Recruitment Consultant, Ericsson
"I found Insidejob’s Advanced Internet Sourcing” to deliver the most current methods for sourcing using social media. It truly demonstrates how to connect with high quality passive talent in today’s market efficiently and with limited resources. Martin’s delivery was interactive and motivating and provided us with practical knowledge of how to approach sourcing and gain a competitive advantage in the industry. Having employed Martin’s teachings on a daily basis, I can testify to an increase in the quality of my talent pools and reduction in time-to-fill niche roles. Thank you Insidejob for helping me to stay ahead of the game with your leading edge techniques."

Fiona Parker, Recruitment Manager, On-site & Search
"As a Recruitment Manager, you're constantly thinking about the ever changing recruitment market, your brand strategy and how to attract the best talent. Learning how to adapt to the market and the way you build your brand and recruit, it key to staying ahead. I have attended Insidejobs, "Advanced Internet Sourcing" course, twice over the past 2 years and have found it to be the most up to date in terms of the latest methods & trends for sourcing using social media. Martin Warren is a industry leader in training programs for Social Media Sourcing, he's engaging and the information is relevant.

The course teaches you in an interactive way to utilise technology to streamline processes, re-aligns your EVP to current market conditions and teaches you to build strategies to connect with top talent quickly.

I highly recommend this course, the industry is changing quickly, as is sourcing techniques and Insidejob have built a program around this to keep us all progressing along... Thanks again!!"

Matt Sullivan, Recruitment Consultant - Engineering & Maintenance, Scotford & Fennessy
"Thanks very much for your time on the course yesterday. I have already used the searching techniques to find some quality passive candidates. You were very engaging and I would certainly recommend the course to anyone in recruitment."

Trudi Micallef, Resourcer, Morgan Consulting
"I just wanted to thank you again for your informative and interactive session. I have not stopped using the information to search some of our more niche roles. Karla has already rolled some pointers out to the rest of the team and they are now all on board!"

Keep up the great work!

Kelly Edmunds, Recruitment Manager - Asia Pacific, URS Australia
"Earlier this year [2010] Martin provided invaluable training to our in-house recruitment team. All of the participants were experienced recruiters however every single one of them learnt several new skills/techniques to uncover hidden talent in the passive marketplace.

In an industry as competitive as ours, with limited resources actively looking at any given time, we need to ensure that we as a team are employing the latest methods to identify talent. The training that Martin conducted gave us that and we have seen positive results as an outcome.

I would not hesitate to recommend the advanced sourcing to others as an essential element of their recruiter's training."

Jody Elliott, Manager Recruitment, BHP Billiton Nickel West
"As a mature and well established in-house recruitment function, the training provided by Martin and David from Insidejob further challenged and improved our thinking, team skills and processes.

Specifically, the training in Sourcing Tactics is extremely valuable and highly recommended. Clearly, Martin is an expert in this area and has much to teach. We've been able to incorporate the tactics into our approach and now regularly use internet searches when sourcing hard-to-fill roles".

Kim Nicholson, Recruitment Manager, ING Direct
"In line with our focus to further develop a proactive and strategic internal recruitment environment, we were looking for the best way to implement the next level of sophistication in our approach.

After considering the options with Insidejob's Recruitment Training, we were able to tailor a great solution to specifically meet our needs. Martin provided us with a very hands on and interactive approach, which challenged all our traditional methods, thinking and processes!

The team have themselves developed new skills but also some fantastic new sourcing techniques, which we believe will provide us a long term competitive advantage.

Many thanks for helping us reach the next milestone in our journey."

Bevan White, Recruitment Operations Manager , Sinclair Knight Merz
"As part of our annual conference where we bring our Australasian Recruitment Team together, we invited Insidejob Recruitment Training to bring an innovative insight to Sourcing Tactics and Talent Pooling.

Their training sessions enlightened our recruiters and demonstrated in a powerful way, how we can use strategy starters and search plans to connect with our top candidates within a matter of minutes. Insidejob provided our recruiters with comprehensive quick reference guides and a sourcing map for advanced searching techniques across all major search engines, as well as professional and social networks.

The trainers demonstrated in a practical manner how we could apply these techniques to our day to day processes and secondly, approach and engage these passive candidates, with the aim of these candidates ultimately joining our talent pool.

Insidejob Recruitment Training was very interactive and its presenters created a relaxed learning environment with real life work situations, coupled with practical applications of the skills learned through individual and team exercises and various role plays.

I would highly recommend the Insidejob program, as it has provided our internal recruitment team with alternative sourcing methods and a competitive advantage.""In valuable tools to add to your sourcing strategies that will greatly impact on the results of internal recruitment teams in filling roles and build future capability"

More feedback from attendees:

"It's like owning a car for years having it in storage and suddenly someone gives you the keys and teaches you to drive"

"Great tips and techniques for finding passive candidates I haven't been able to access before"

"The value of real Internet search"

"Proactive searching made easy and accessible"

"Great tools to identify potential candidates in a short space of time"

"Learning all the unpublished Google commands"

"I will save the company a lot of money and increase my productivity at the same time - once I become an expert at Internet searching"

"The creative sourcing tactics really opened my eyes to a greater pool of potential (passive) candidates"

"It will allow me to identify passive candidates and may help reduce the need to use agencies"

"The sourcing techniques are mind-blowing"

"The step by step Internet sourcing strategy starters"

"A new level of candidate sourcing"

"There's so much sourcing capability at my fingertips that I didn't know existed"

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Essential Social Media for Recruitment Program

Feedback from attendee:

Mark Sumner, Talent Sourcing Manager (Talent Acquisition), ASB Bank, March 2012
"A quick thank you to Martin for delivering an interctive, entertaining and highly informative "Essebtial Social Media for Recruitment Program" in Auckland - great to have you this side of the Tasman! I would highly recommend the course which laid the ground work for developing and implementing a robust social media strategy for Recruitment. Martin's knowledge, tricks of the trade and insights into Anaytical tools used to monitor engagement / brand sentiment are proving invaluable."

Kristine Tuazon, Senior Permanent Consultant, December 2011
"Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the brilliant training session you held in December of 2011. I’ve attended plenty of training sessions and workshops in the 5 years of being a recruiter and was amazed at the depth and breadth covered across all concerns about recruiting in the social media space. It’s absolutely valuable to have a plan and strategy to execute in the right direction and completing your training gave me the clarity I needed to feel confident and prepared in my approach. I look forward to another exciting workshop with you in the future as we both see how the social media space unfolds.

Wish you all the best moving forward and thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us."

Clare Borman, Recruitment Manager, Queensland Rail, April 2011
"I attended the one day Insidejob Social Media course and found it extremely valuable. The course provided me with clarity around concepts and ideas that are easy to implement and cost effective. I would recommend this course to anyone that was considering a social media strategy, as it gave me the tools, templates and ideas to get moving in the right direct."

Rebecca Barry, General Manager, Human Resources, Royal Agricultural Society of NSW, March 2011
"I would like to say a BIG thank you for my inclusion in the Social Media workshop I attended recently in Sydney. The mix of participants really allowed for great cross-pollination of issues and ideas as well as the sharing of many real-life case studies. The resources we were provided with are invaluable. There is a lot to consider in the social media space but the workshop chunked it down into manageable pieces. I would certainly recommend this workshop and these expert facilitators. The question now – where to start ?"

Donna Brown, Senior Resourcing Advisor, BHP Billiton, March 2011
"I found Friday really interesting and it was the first time that the 'practical' applications of social media began to reveal themselves to me!"

Sarah Calverley, Consultant, BSI People Pty Limited
"I attended the Essential Social Media for Recruitment Program late 2010, and would highly recommend this course and any associated with Insidejob for professional recruiters at all levels of their career; agency or internal. The course delivered real life, hands on information that I could action straight away. The outcome for me has been a considerable increase in passive candidate attraction across our organisation, with a very measurable and worthwhile ROI! The trainers are unique subject matter experts that inspire and have a call-to-action approach. Thanks David, Martin and Michael!"

Lynn Monk, HR Manager, REST Superannuation
"The course was very comprehensive, and linked through to strategy which I felt very beneficial. Other topics discussed such as demographic analysis, risk, governance, and policy formulation and implementation will assist me to build a business case and implementation of social media for recruitment into the organisation."

More feedback from attendees:

"...have finally got the Social Media policy in place, and started initiatives with Twitter and Facebook, and it's going extremely well!"

"...found the day very informative and enjoyable..."

"the Social Media Training was very interactive! I didn't feel like I was being talked to but rather I was having a conversation...Dave and Michael were very friendly and approachable. Examples they used were very useful and relevant. I liked that they drew on past experiences...Overall though it was all very positive."

"Dave and Michael have a thorough knowledge on Social Media and have obviously worked closely for some time - they bounced off one another well. They encouraged group discussion and resulted in easy group interaction, both good facilitators. Content was relevant and I personally found it very interesting to learn not only about social media...The activities within the presentation were practical, and importantly the information was current and gave insight into what other organisations are doing in the marketplace."

"Engaging presenters. Enjoyed the on-line metrics and real time demonstrations (google analytics etc)."

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Essential Sourcing & Talent Pooling Program

Feedback from attendees:

"Being able to gain insight into how other companies manage their recruitment. I enjoyed learning about sourcing candidates from the Internet which is something I've never know about"

"Eliciting the value proposition was a real eye opener for me"

"Learned so much more about Linkedin and other sourcing techniques"

"The course really reinforced what is critical as internal recruiters"

"I really learnt how to approach and engaging with passive candidates in building your talent pools'

"I learnt the importance building strong relationships based on trust and commitment will all key stakeholders"

"The roles plays and scenario were fantastic in providing the opportunity to apply the new learnings"

"The consultative inclusive nature of the Insidejob format was the most beneficial part of the course"

"I learnt a lot and will be able to utilise the information back in the workplace"

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Singapore Training Programs

Feedback from attendee:

Lyn Teo, Human Resources Manager, PSB Corporation Pte Ltd Singapore
[Attended the Professional Recruitment Skills in Singapore October 2008]

"This is an excellent program in providing the foundational skills for recruitment. The program gives a good overview to managing the recruiting cycle more competently.

Extremely useful insights and guidance, the techniques taught were also immediately applicable. Trainers are knowledgeable and very committed to ensuring that you gain maximum benefit from this program."

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Genenral Testimonials

Feedback from attendees:

David Mahady, Talent Acquisition Manager, Bank of New Zealand
"Insidejob's Recruitment Training program created a fun learning environment which involved theory and a practical application of the skills learned. Feedback from the team was positive and changes have already been made to incorporate what they have learned.

I would recommend the Recruitment Training program as it provides internal recruitment teams with the tool kit to develop as professionals."

Matt Pontin, Recruitment Manager, Fulton Hogan - NZ
"I would recommend Insidejob's Recruitment Training program as it provides internal recruitment teams with the tool kit to develop as professionals and provide their organisation with a competitive advantage.

Feedback from the team was positive highlighting key areas within our role often taken for granted and other creative ideas from conducting a successful Job Brief, eliciting the Value Proposition to defining your Sourcing Tactics and building your Talent Pools.

Insdiejob's Recruitment Training provided an interactive and fun learning program and environment with real life work situations and theory coupled with practical applications of the skills learned through various individual and team exercises and role plays. "

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