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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:…

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How Can Recruitment Businesses Profit from the Gig Economy?

Long gone are the days when people would remain in a single job for most of their career. With recruitment agencies providing UK businesses 1.2 million temporary workers according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, temporary employment is an embedded work practice. And now modern workers have another way to secure short-term job and project…

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What Technology Can’t You Live Without as a Recruiter?

Imagine having to find the best talent without the luxury of your computer or your phone. Now try to imagine having to manage your workday without social media, online tracking systems, scheduling programs and productivity tools. Impossible right? It’s no understatement to say that we have become dependant on technology. Things that once took hours…

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4 Ways to Hire Specialized Talent

There’s always been a debate over whether it’s best to hire people who have lots of general skills or one very specific skill. And while there are cases to be made on both sides of the argument, there’s definitely a time and place for specialized talent. Do you know how to find it? How to…

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7 Rules for Giving Feedback to Interview Candidates

Offering feedback to candidates is vital, especially for students and younger professionals. There has been widespread encouragement towards the British government to make feedback after face-to-face interviews mandatory among all employers in order to improve the application process for job seekers. In research done by Debut, 77% of over 70,000 18-23-year-olds agreed that feedback should be…