Once upon a time, finding a job meant squinting at a corkboard or circling ads in the Sunday paper with a biro. Finding a candidate meant a Rolodex, a landline, and a great deal of patience. Fast-forward to today and a single job posting can pull 500 applications in 48 hours, a chatbot can screen them overnight,…
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.
As a recruitment company, we feel we can offer job seekers some well needed insight into the mind-set of recruiters and our decision making processes. We see so many worthy candidates that we have to trust our instincts when it comes to choosing the cream of the crop. So here are the ways to make…
As a recruiter you have so much to think about: advertising jobs, sourcing candidates, competing not just with you traditional competitors, but with your clients and candidates – everything’s online now and everyone has access to what you have access to. How do you differentiate yourself? How can you make yourself stand out? Heads are…
Once graduates leave university, it is extremely difficult for them to find jobs. Here are the true facts behind graduate employment, courtesy of Walton Robinson. Takeaways: Medicine and dentistry courses have the highest graduate employment rate – 92%, compared with 89% for education graduates. Computer science has the highest graduate unemployment rate – 13% – alongside creative…
I did some training with our in-house recruitment team yesterday on what to do with social media in their roles – they’d spent the day with LinkedIn getting trained on the basics of setting up an account and bits and bobs like that. By the time I got to them they had that glazed look…