Recruiting top talent is crucial to ensure long-term growth and performance for any ambitious business. Equally important is to allow your talent to use their strengths after they’re hired. Utilising employees in the wrong way can lead to stress, frustration, depression and general dissatisfaction. It can also lead to increasing staff turnover and reduced productivity…
Category: Talent Acquisition
Struggling to attract the right talent? The Employer Brand Index can help you to understand strengths and weaknesses of your company as an employer.
Many recruiters find LinkedIn invaluable. According to data collected in 2013, 89% of recruiters have used the professional network to fill a position. One of the things that recruiters look at on LinkedIn is the recommendations section of a prospective job candidate. Unlike the one-click skills endorsements on LinkedIn, a recommendation is a written statement…
As the economy continues to improve, job seekers will have a larger choice of jobs. For this reason, employers will have to really up their game when it comes to recruiting top talent. Every company wants the best to join it’s staff, and today’s recruiters need to have a clear strategy in order to attract the…
Close to 8 percent of all workers in the UK are employed by tech companies, however the future growth of the industry is under threat, due to a shortage of skilled professionals in the sector. There is a similar deficit across the pond in the US, and in 2012, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and…
Viral comedy. Did any of you see the job advert written by American business owner, Justin, advertising for a chef for his eaterie in Clarkston? If you haven’t read it yet, it has gone viral across the globe. Truth hurts. And the reason for this global interest, aside from his target audience within the catering…
Between the candidate experience and all of the employer branding information out there, the recruitment brand is often lost. It’s so much more than how candidates feel during the recruitment process or the logo attached to an organisation. All these elements are important and intertwined, but the ‘how to’ part of building a great recruitment brand is often…
Executive search, in general, is a much higher level of service than your average recruitment process. Its focus, thoroughness and complexity is aligned to the significant level of investment involved in recruiting high calibre, senior and executive roles. Here are some tricks of the trade that top executive search consultants follow for success. 1) Research: Research is fundamental…
There’s nothing worse than having your Friday ruined by realising it’s only Tuesday. The average person spends 90,000 hours of their life in the workplace. With so much time spent at work, it’s important that you’re happy there. Tuesday’s should be just as good as Fridays. How can you make sure you have that Friday feeling…
Over the past year, I’ve met many ambitious tech companies in Los Angeles and Vancouver that tend to get lost over the hype, their “thing”, but it’s never as cool as it sounds. Why? I think part of the reason is because, behind every ambitious tech company exists an ambitious entrepreneur, who believes their invention, product, service, app, etc. is the…