With video representing 74% of all online traffic, video content really does rule the internet waves. So it’s no wonder more and more companies are tapping in with employer branding videos to enhance their profile and attract top talent. Employer brand videos are a great way to engage prospecting applicants and communicate your company’s story,…
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.
“Let’s have a look outside our industry for a manager to fill this role,” is rarely greeted with enthusiasm. Staff in the department will sigh at the thought of training a complete outsider. HR will wince at working harder to define an alternative person-spec and new selection criteria. Recruitment agency partners won’t be keen as…
Company culture is the DNA of your workforce, and is made up of the goals, vision and values of every employee. Depending on the culture fit of your next hire, they can either reinforce your company’s mission, or they can dilute it. As well, because younger job seekers are now placing more importance on company…
The recruitment process can be the bane of many a firm’s existence. What should be an exciting time of growth and inspiration can often turn into a nightmare-inducing catastrophe. The knowledge that every new person added can either move the team forward or backward can make the undertaking unnecessarily stressful and complicated, draining valuable resources.…
Prejudice in recruitment is prevalent and hard to overcome. Human beings aren’t good at being perfectly unbiased. We all have bias, conscious or unconscious, and it’s this deep-rooted nature of human prejudice that remains a recurring hurdle in diversity recruitment. In order to tackle discrimination, we must address our own bias and challenge these ‘natural’…
Ah, the noble job description. It plays such an important role in drawing candidates to your open positions, and yet, (how do I say this gently?) … many of them suck. OK, so maybe that wasn’t so gentle but it is true. And now that we’ve addressed the elephant in the room, let’s talk about…
The demand for talented developers is at a fever pitch, and the supply just isn’t there to meet it. With 87 percent of developers stating that they’re currently employed and only 13 percent actively looking for their next job, it would be easy to conclude that growing your engineering team this year is essentially an…
If you’re looking to attract top millennial talent to your company then you might want to look beyond the traditional benefits of pensions, company car, or bonuses (as great as they are). Job seekers are increasingly transferring an importance on to work benefits with over a third of employees revealing perks are a primary consideration…
We all know the daily struggle of going through loads and loads of resumes. Every now and then you might stumble across something incredibly awesome. So awesome, that the entire department eventually got to see it. That’s what we’re here for: we want to inspire you at all times, so we’ve summarised a few job…