The top business challenge of managers is hiring and recruiting talent — despite the country’s high unemployment rate. Part of the problem is that many organizations don’t make hiring easy, personal, or intuitive. There is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of what constitutes the perfect recruitment process, as the best approach will vary depending…
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Just about every recruitment business that I am associated with, as well as those I consult to, are finding it difficult to hire great recruiters. In Australia there is such a shortage of experienced recruiters that one ‘Rec to Rec’ recruiter told me she has over 1200 vacant orders in Sydney alone! In the UK,…
Is this a struggle? If we are honest, it is everyone’s challenge! The good news is that there are answers to this dilemma. The reason I know there is an answer is that it is an issue with almost every client and we, and others, have been able to find solutions to it – for…
No feedback after an interview is catastrophic to the hiring process. In this post I want to take a look at the 3 parties affected by a lack of interview feedback and hope – nay pray – that in some small way this article might just help people understand quite how important interview feedback is.…
This infographic by Stephens Scown shows results highlighting that employment in the UK continues to be driven by small and medium enterprises (SMES). However, getting employment wrong can be very costly – see why below. Takeaways: SMEs employ 59.1% of people in the UK. 72% of businesses say that their main recruitment difficulty is lack…
Whether you like (or believe) it or not, most Hiring/HR Managers don’t see a lot of difference between the various contingency recruitment agencies they deal with. Sure, they may engage with you in a spirit of cooperation – but that is mostly down to either their supplier-management skills or their desperation in trying to fill…
Recently I was one of 4 judges asked to select “Australia’s Best Recruiter 2013”. The calibre was high, drawing responses from all over Australia and New Zealand. The judging panel interviewed a shortlist of 4, and Peter Murphy, from Davidson Recruitment in Brisbane, was selected as the worthy winner. Peter has an exceptional record in…
When it comes to candidate sourcing, the conversation of passive vs active candidates feels like it’s been done to death. As Greg Savage pointed out in his blog post “There’s no such thing as a passive candidate”, there are no passive or active candidates…there are just candidates. Most people, if offered a great job would…
Pinterest turns three this month, and oh baby, has it come a long way from its humble beginnings as just a virtual pinboard! Some fast facts: An increased number of men use the site – 32% men to 68% women as opposed to 92% women initially. More traffic than LinkedIn and Google+ combined per month.…