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Talent Acquisition

How Social Media Can Shake Up Your Recruitment Strategy

Recruitment has been transformed by the digital revolution. In the war for top talent, innovative new techniques have shaken up strategies across the world. Social media is one, a reactive platform that connects your business with a new generation of talent. Here’s how to make it work for your business. Takeaways Reach Millennials and Generation…

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Talent Acquisition

Brain Teasers to Find the Right Candidates

Logic-based interview puzzles are becoming increasingly popular in recruitment processes to help employers find the brightest candidates and gain insight into a candidate’s thought process. Brain teasers are particularly popular in the tech sector, where employers want to find the most logical candidates who can help them advance with their next innovative product launch. Famously,…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Harmonize Candidate and Employer Needs

Two seemingly conflicting trends are shaping recruitment today: candidates expect a more personalized application experience that respects their privacy, while companies need to make faster, higher-quality HR decisions. Surprisingly, but not paradoxically, the rise of big data analytics and the automatization of HR processes both carry the potential to meet these needs. Change is inevitable…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Be a More Effective Recruiter: 5 Things to Avoid

At this time of year, as well as gorging myself on chocolate and cheese, I take the time to reflect on the business year gone by, plan my strategy for the year ahead, and review what lessons I have learned from a personal and professional perspective. I think it is vital to use the holiday…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

A Guide to Data-Driven Employer Branding

For a long time, the world of employer branding was all about intangibles. Actually presenting the results of your employer brand work was hard to do.  That’s where data comes in. Making the intangibles; tangible. Data is becoming a popular commodity to businesses of all sizes because it helps them make more informed decisions and…