Last week over 180 in-house recruiters gathered for the Talent Leaders Connect event in London. Acting as a forerunner to the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), an organisation’s candidate experience (or lack of) was hotly debated among some of the recruitment industry’s leading professionals. The line-up included Global HRD and author Peter Wright; Forward Partners’ Matt Buckland, who recently…
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The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of…
This year has already been dubbed the ‘Year of the Candidate’, as growing economic confidence is shifting the power from the employer to the employee. After years of economic uncertainty which encouraged employees to stay in the same job and prompted employers to be cautious about making investments in new staff, the continued positive news is…
Our friends at Dice recently presented the results of the Tech Candidate Sentiment Survey 2015 to help government officials get up to date with developing trends in recruiting. They surveyed 3,801 respondents, 68% of who were in a job, 50% actively manage their careers and no less than 90% engage with recruiters. Survey takeaways: Sourcing…
You finally found it—your dream job. And after some detective work on Google, the company website, and social media, you’ve tracked down the HR manager or recruiter responsible for filling the position. How do you proceed? This is your first impression, and you want to make a good one. Before you contact the recruiter, take…
With the Mobile Operators Association stating that 57% of adults used their mobile phones for internet access in Q1 or 2014 and 3 in 5 job seekers (60%) are now using mobile devices to search for jobs according to Social Talent, making your online presence mobile-friendly has never been as important as a recruiter. Newman Stewart recently launched a…
You’ve probably heard the phrase before: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. It means it is better to have a definite than hold out for the possibility of something better that may never come. It is time to start incorporating this methodology into your recruiting operations. The more the merrier:…
Finding a temporary employee to join your team can always be a struggle. You may worry that they won’t take their role as seriously as a full-time worker or perhaps they’ll leave before their contract ends if something more permanent comes along. Seeking out temporary staff who are committed, passionate and capable of hitting the…
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sent a well-qualified, enthusiastic candidate in for an interview only to have them come back and report that they had a horrible experience and would never want to work at that company. If this is happening to you, you need to pay more attention to training your…