“Shouldn’t you be playing in an orchestra somewhere?” I was interviewing for a job in the New York City Mayor’s Office, having just finished graduate school with a degree in public affairs. Surprised that what had stood out most on my resume were my studies at Juilliard, I responded by explaining away those years of…
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.
In a candidate led market, it’s important to act quickly and be proactive in your selection and attraction process. Engage and attract candidates through a variety of methods, widening your search in order to grab candidates’ attention, allowing you to put them forward to your client before other recruiters have the opportunity. With so much…
Now with most things in life, there’s no point in doing something if you’re not going to get any benefit from it. While there may be many benefits to recruitment marketing, our panel of esteemed experts have told us what they think is their number one. Have a read of them and see if you…
The history of discrimination and male-dominance is evident within the accounting industry, but times have changed. Today, according to Catalyst, more than half (61.3%) of all accountants and auditors are women. This is a staggering increase from the 39% they had in 1983, which at that time was considered a giant step forward. But while this…
Ambitious employees want to develop into leaders at work. They want to grow and prosper in your business. So your reputation for developing employees into leaders, managers and more, is pivotal, and might just be the most important aspect of your employment brand. We’re with Morgan Hoogvelt, the Global Director of Talent Acquisition at ESAB…
We are, on average, living longer, and demographic changes will have implications in all areas of life. The aging workforce will soon become one of the main challenges facing organizations. What people want from work is broadly consistent across generations but some older workers may be much less likely to have had opportunities for training,…
We bring you yet another panel of ten experts and this time we’re talking all things recruitment marketing. But what is recruitment marketing I hear you say? I mean, it sounds pretty obvious going by its title but is it? We asked our experts to give us their own definition of it, see if you agree.…
Sponsored by MightyRecruiter “Trust, but verify” is a time-tested and effective way to do business. That holds especially true with top candidates as they reach the stage of being cleared for hire. It’s the nature of the job market for candidates to cast themselves in the best possible light to the broadest group of potential…
A bad hire can be one of the most expensive decisions you can make, especially for the programmers in IT. The individual programming mistake can be costly, but the behaviors of the software developer can be even more costly. Just take the example of the person responsible for the bad design affecting the iPhone 4’s…