Graduate schemes play a pivotal in many of today’s organizations, with employers increasing the number of graduate roles in their companies by nearly five percent in 2017 alone. This trend suggests employers are realizing the huge business value qualified young professionals can bring to an organization, as they grow to become our future leaders. In…
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.
There is a lot of great debate at the moment about the value of failure. Why it is important for businesses, managers and team leaders to promote the importance of failure in moving forward and why individuals need to embrace the concept of failure. What I see through each of these, however, is that there…
Employer branding is critical to the recruitment process. Companies need to differentiate between their consumer brand and their employer brand if they genuinely want to attract the right candidate for them, as well as engage their existing employees. But before we go into the nitty-gritty of employer branding ourselves, we’ll let our panel of employer…
We all know recruitment is a fast-paced industry, and that sometimes means you miss some of the important recruiter news stories from around the world, or you don’t realize how useful they can be for your own development. Here are three recent campaigns and reports that you need to know about. 1. Britain: British Army…
As a recruiter who scans dozens of CVs every day, you’ll know how important certain keywords are in identifying the right candidates. You’ll also be used to seeing candidates use the same words like ‘passionate’, ‘strategic’, and ‘driven’ over and over again to describe themselves. However, every story has two sides and you have to…
The words ‘Home’ and ‘Dare’ are two very important aspects of what makes Allianz an attractive prospective employer. The brand has been around for almost 120 years they are still striving to improve, innovate and change what the company is all about. This is a challenge any candidate would want to be a part of.…
HR is constantly evolving, with so many organizations constantly collecting data on employees’ activities and performance. What is found is that most of these trends involve data mining. Based on research conducted by Hogan Assessments and the University College London, there are 5 significant trends that look very likely to shape how we assess employees…
AI, Chatbots, GDPR, Google Hire – all looking to “disrupt” the recruiting sector / online processes. We’ve yet to really get to grips with any of them… but our initial instincts have been a little of “run for the hills” and “Quick! Get on the phone!” We’ve written and webinar’d a lot about GDPR –…
According to LinkedIn, the biggest trends set to change how recruiters hire this year are diversity, reinventing the interview process, data, and artificial intelligence. The annual report surveyed over 8,800 recruiters and hiring managers from 39 countries to better understand these trends and help recruitment teams prepare for 2018. 1. Diversity is key The report…