It goes without saying that every company director and owner wants their business to be a success, but what makes one company more successful than the next? To borrow an analogy from nature: your business is like an ant colony. Whether it has 10 or 100 workers, they all work together to make it a…
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.
Ever feel like your productivity at work is on the decline? Perhaps you’re not meeting your employer’s goals, or your own. A recent lack of energy or enthusiasm, increased mistakes or a general feeling of apathy may be contributing to your less-than-stellar performance in the office. Before you blame your declining performance on burnout or…
Mobile job searches are doubling each year. Are you missing out on mobile talent? See why you need a mobile-friendly career site in order to capture candidates no matter where they go. Our friends at Work4 have a created a fantastic infographic and video about mobile recruitment and its surprising numbers. Have you used mobile…
Looking for better finance hires? Well, it may be time to send your trusty interview questions back to the drawing board. If your interview process is lacking strategic thought, you’re likely to miss out on valuable insight — both positive and negative — on your finance candidates. This approach — or lack thereof — could…
Here at Bubble, we offer clients everything they’d expect from a typical jobs board. From feature adverts and skyscraper banners to enhanced social media promotion, you can get it all at Bubble but there’s one thing you can’t get… and it’s something that really confuses (and annoys) a lot of our potential clients – we’re…
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What is Your Alter-Ego Career?
Like so many of my generation of recruiters (god, I have just made myself sound ancient and I am only 3*something), I fell into recruitment in the 1990s – as opposed to by design (as is the case of many generation Y now because “it’s very lucrative” apparently). I often chat to my contacts, as I…
Recruiters – you need to wake up! Candidate experience and especially satisfaction is crucial in the recruitment process. While there is still plenty of talk surrounding “The Candidate Experience” it becomes very easy to shy away from basic concepts in order to put more focus on your own personal gain or the gain of the…
The word “Recruiter” generally stirs up lots of emotion and opinions in people – we are the people the professional world loves to hate! But can we recruiters actually be of value to you, the client? Can we become a trusted business partner? Personally, I expect that some clients will like us, and some won’t. That…
As summer slowly morphs into fall, 26.9 percent of the population goes from worrying about sunburns to homework. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 79 million children and adults enrolled in school back in 2011 — which means, for a large proportion of the population, back-to-school season is upon us. Going back to…