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Talent Acquisition

Underperforming New Hires? It’s Probably Your Fault

Businesses spend a lot of money hiring, onboarding, and training new employees. It’s a substantial investment of time and finances for the company. Each time an organization hires a new employee, it costs them thousands of dollars. With such a large investment, what happens when the new hires are underperforming or not meeting business expectations?…

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The Top Reasons People Aren’t Applying for Jobs

Enticing people to apply for your jobs seems like it should be a straightforward task. They want a new job, you’re offering them one that seems to be a good fit, but sometimes the applications just don’t roll in. That’s because anyone who has been through the process of applying for jobs has been burnt…

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How Behavior Trumps Personality In Recruitment

Have you ever considered the impact of behavior in your business? Often the areas of biggest concern and challenge in a business are related to people and their behavior, but during the recruitment process, businesses tend to focus on the personalities of their team members instead of their behavior. When looking at pre-employment testing, personality…

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5 Technology Tips Every Employer Should Use to Hunt Top Talent

Competition for talent is fierce. Despite some global economic uncertainty, such as Brexit casting a shadow over the UK and Europe, employers haven’t slowed down with growth and hiring plans. Ambitious professionals are changing jobs and careers at a steady pace. Companies need every advantage in the recruitment process. With more Gen Z employees entering…

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Talent Acquisition

Is It OK to Edit a Candidate’s CV?

When reviewing CVs, adapting applications prior to submitting them to employers, has become common practise for most recruiters. But as a recruiter should you be amending information on behalf of a candidate, or is it better to submit the CV a candidate created with no rewrites? Reflecting on a balance between minor tweaks and CV…

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How to Build the Perfect Applicant Funnel

Recruitment marketing is still in its infancy when compared to either its older sibling HR Recruiting, or its first cousin Marketing. There are plenty of ways you can streamline and improve your recruitment marketing tactics by borrowing from both of these related practices. Today we’re going to go over building the perfect applicant funnel, pulling…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Communicate Jumpy Resums to Your Clients

One of the most popular client requests across many industries is ‘longevity’. But in today’s job market, what does this actually mean? With the millennial workforce killing the idea of the ‘forever job’, and job-hopping becoming the norm instead of the exception, longevity is almost an outdated concept. It is up to recruiters to educate…

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Talent Acquisition

Academic versus Vocational Qualifications – Which Wins?

With university tuition fees at approx £10k a year (Reddin Survey for university tuition fees), alternative advice to young adults seeking guidance in which career path to take has never been more vital when deciding whether to pursue a degree or follow a vocational path instead. Recruitment is renowned for being divisive with some hiring…

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Talent Acquisition

Why You Should Join the New SmartDreamers Academy

Sponsored Content SmartDreamers, a global provider of recruitment marketing automation software, today announced the release of SmartDreamers Academy, a one-stop learning center for all things hiring, talent acquisition, and recruitment marketing automation (RMA). This new feature will be made available free of charge to recruiters as they work to improve their hiring efforts and find…