Category: Magazine
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Considering a Candidate Without a Degree? You’re Not The Only One…
Thanks to rising fees and cuts in funding, the number of students opting out of university has steadily risen across the UK and the States in recent years. A report undertaken by UCAS showed that in the 2012/13 financial year, UK students alone racked up a staggering debt of £20 billion. Unsurprisingly the study also…
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How to Make your First Recruitment Video
Last week we posted an article on the Rise of the Recruitment Video including examples of some of the best videos on the Web plus some useful pointers on how to create your own. The examples we gave were predominantly made by large companies, and each recruitment video was very different in style, from formal…
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Recruiting for non-recruiters
There’s a saying within the recruiting industry that goes: “Managers spend 2% of their time recruiting, and 98% of their time managing their errors”. Now, that’s clearly exaggerated, but it does highlight the concept that recruiting isn’t a role that should be taken lightly. Professional recruiters are pricey. The good ones are worth the money…
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Is Your Application Process a Chore?
In today’s competitive job market it’s hard enough to catch the attention of top talent, let alone turn them into job applicants. You need an engaging website, buzzing social platforms, to-die-for job ads and an employer brand that has candidates falling over themselves to apply. You can have all of this and more but it’ll…
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Top 6 Interview Tips
At some point in their careers most managers or HR members make the transition from their regular duties to interviewing, and just like a first date it can take a few times before you get over those jitters. For those of you who are still getting used to it, here are our top 6 interview…
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The Right Choice of Candidate
There are some positions out there that just aren’t easy to fill – weeks and months can go by and somehow the right candidate just won’t appear. You’ve tried every marketing tactic there is, posted on all of the mainstream job boards, shouted about it from the rooftops, and still nada. It’s just not happening.…
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Recruiting Passive Candidates
In the business world, passive recruitment is by no means a new phenomenon. It’s well known that sometimes the best employees are those who need chasing, and more often than not passive candidates are desirable because they are already performing a role that a recruiter needs to fill. They may need a little more persuasion…
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Employer Reference Checks
Its a pivotal moment for all employers when they have finally waded their way through the process of advertising, pre-selecting and interviewing and find themselves with the perfect candidate for the role. Their prospective employee is great fit in every way; educated, skilled, professional, likeable, the list goes on, or, at least this is how…
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Crazy Candidate Tactics
A couple of weeks ago we posted an article on Impossible Interview Questions, some of the brainteasers that have been reported over the last year were just outright bizarre and quite honestly, made you feel a bit sorry for the poor candidate in the interview seat. This week however, we’re going to take a look…
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Talent Relationship Management
Broadly speaking TRM (Talent Relationship Management) is a term used to describe the cultivation of clients and the maintenance of good customer relations. In recruitment terms this specifically applies to the process of finding and maintaining passive talent, as well as candidates who have an active desire to work for a company. The two categories…
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Hiring Employees Who Stay
For most companies a new employee is an investment that takes time and resources to obtain, and naturally employers want their new hires to be in it for the long run to make it worth their while. However statistics show that the average staying power of an employee has dramatically lowered in recent years, and…
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How to Engage Your Employees
In a recent Gallup study figures showed that over 52% of American workers are “not engaged” with their work, indicating that under half of the entire American workforce aren’t actually committed to their jobs. With studies proving that engaged workers have significantly higher productivity, less sick leave and far fewer safety accidents than their less-committed…