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Do Applicants Lack Skills or Experience?

The latest survey from Forde HR Cloud reveals that a large proportion of businesses are unable to pick and choose the perfect candidates when recruiting. In fact, as many as two in three business managers admitted to struggling to recruit the staff they ideally want. Small businesses listed a variety of reasons, the biggest being…

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5 Reasons Why Interview Feedback Matters

Interview feedback is proving to be one of the more contentious issues facing our industry today. Candidates are keen to receive it, yet some employers are reluctant to give it – so what should be done? A recent white paper from a group of HR stakeholders, backed by several leading international organisations, aims to address…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

What Candidates Want, What They Really Really Want

Is it money? Is it career development? Competing for the very best talent can get tedious. Candidates don’t line up in masses for jobs like they used to. So what do candidates really want? We sit down with Jon Addison of LinkedIn to learn how he drives Talent Solutions at the company, and what his research…

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How to Schedule Meetings Without Any Hassle

Finding a time that suits everyone to schedule a call or meeting can get quite messy. Calendly brings simplicity back to scheduling, by handling your availability with others with only a few clicks of a button from yourself. With over a million monthly users, Calendly is trusted by LinkedIn and Zendesk, and is widely used by…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition Timebound

The Persona Project: Putting Personal Identity Front and Centre

Sponsored by Jobbio: Jane Reddin, Talent Advisor at Balderton Capital, has extensive experience working with startups and high growth companies to help them scale their businesses by building high-performing teams. Among her pioneering talent strategies is a toolkit which helps companies transform their ability to hire and develop top talent. Her latest project, powered by Jobbio,…

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How Will Technology Change Work in the Future?

The buzzword nowadays is AI, and there has been non-stop debate over how work will change in the future. By 2020, experts predict about seven million jobs will be lost and two million gained as a result of technological development. It is no doubt that we will see a dramatic re-shape within the working environment, and…

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5 Steps to Simplifying Your Hiring Process

Saying spending hours on hours finding the right person for the right job can be a long and tedious process is an understatement. Dealing with thousands of applications and hundreds of candidates on a weekly basis can make your job difficult to cope with. So just like many other recruiters out there, you try to…

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15 Science-backed Tips for Writing Job Descriptions

For many recruiters, hiring managers, or bootstrapping startups, hiring a new person is an incredibly important task. And while that statement may come as no surprise to those who have ventured to do it, the process itself can still have your reeling. Before you even think about the interview process or salary negotiation, you have…

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Recruiting Introverts: Why You Might Be Losing Your Best Candidates

A few years ago, I watched New York Times best-selling author Susan Cain’s TED Talk on “The Power of Introverts” and had one of those rare moments in life where everything suddenly made sense. Wait…what? I’m completely normal and just an introvert? It’s hard to believe I never knew this about myself. The signs were always there:…