Most recruitment processes will start with potential candidates sending through their applications or CVs, and as a recruiter, it’s part of your role to screen the responses and pinpoint the most suitable applicants. However, you could be missing out on some great candidates if you’re focusing solely on a candidate’s CV and not delving deeper…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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To thrive in the modern business world it’s critical that employees are enabled to play to their strengths in a volatile and fast-moving marketplace. The ability to adapt, engage, communicate and collaborate are crucial in terms of sustainable employability and contribution to the workplace effort. For good employers this means providing an environment where career…
Sponsored by MightyRecruiter Recruiting for senior-level employees can be a headache, especially in an economy with near-full employment. When recruiting for a senior position, which typically requires a detailed recipe of hard and soft skills, accomplishments, and professional experience, the field can seem awfully narrow. Make your challenge for 2019 to sharpen your senior-level recruiting…
Christmas and New Year is well and truly over, and it’s back to work for recruiters throughout London. We expect the world of work to continue to evolve over the next 12 months as new ways of thinking unfold and take shape. As experts in employment, we are responsible for keeping our clients informed on…
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Think Like a Job Seeker
Through my years of working in the Talent Acquisition industry, I’ve come across many professionals who have varying views on how to attract and find the right talent. Most professionals take a pray and post approach to finding talent. Instead of thinking outside the box to find talent, they rely on the traditional job boards,…
The recruiting process can be full of roadblocks, bumps, and workarounds that eventually lead you to a great hire. Getting through each step of the process involves a lot of work, but is there a way to smooth things out and ensure the process doesn’t take such a toll on your team? Yes, there is…
Hiring the best talent is critical to business success. After all, an organization is nothing without its people. But talent acquisition is not an easy job. It can be fraught with issues, including unconscious bias. Many companies may believe that their hiring practices are fair and free of bias. However, unconscious bias can scupper any…
A key facet of any successful company lies in the working environment. A company will ultimately be limited in its successes if employers find the workplace unpleasant, negative or stressful. Yet fostering and maintaining a positive work environment can be tricky, especially when finding a balance and not ending up being underproductive and unprofessional. Here…
Collaboration and idea-sharing is the name of the game for most businesses today. Organizations have realized that this is key to innovation and success. A 2016 Neilsen report found that “ideas developed by teams of three or more people have 156 percent greater appeal with consumers than those developed by teams where just one or…