As competition for people continues to grow, attracting and retaining the cream of the crop talent has become everything to employers and recruiters. Your businesses depend on the best talent to drive it to its full capability. A few weeks back at the Google I/O conference the company formally announced its AI-based job search engine…
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Employing apprentices is a new thing for the recruitment sector and I know that many will be asking, why bother, why not just employ graduates? And if I do employ apprentices won’t they be a lot of hassle? I hope to dispel those worries. It is a myth that all the best people go to…
Franklin Roosevelt was President, the Great Depression was raging, and Jean Harlow was the reigning queen of Hollywood – all this while the first serious studies of unconscious bias and prejudice began to emerge. In particular, much of the focus of this 1930’s research was on answering this central question: Can contact between groups reduce…
The BBC has recently reported that ‘unemployment is at its lowest rate since records began in 1975’. It’s a great fact, a monumental one in fact for the British public. So what’s the problem then? A Brexit Barometer report put together by Innovantage, Bond International Software, and TempBuddy has revealed that industries with high dependency…
As the world of recruitment scrambles to keep pace with the momentum of digital progress and the age of disposability, candidate loyalty has been impacted along the way. There is a plethora of quality recruitment agencies in the market and – fortunately for us all – healthy volumes of vacant roles available too. Good candidates…
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The Recruiter’s Life in Emojis
When the Barclay Jones team go into a recruiter’s sales floor it’s often a scene filled with faces akin to emojis – terror, ecstasy, disgust! The emoji came from Japan in the late 1990s and would you believe that World Emoji Day is coming up on 17 July. Why 17 July, well it seems that…
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6 Ways to Romance Your Client
We all know the kind of clients we would like to work with, but how are we going to get them? Building a recruitment business is not about hitting clients over the head with a big stick and dragging them to your cave. It is much more of a seduction. We need to get our…
When they apply for a job, the majority of applicants use a template to design their resume, rather than building one from scratch. Some templates are good enough to land an excellent job because they expertly showcase your skills. But there are thousands of templates, both online and in your Word program. How do you…
Artificial Intelligence is here, and it’s here to stay. The general outlook has been gloomy, especially when it comes to the safety of our jobs. The stats really are scary. PwC (2017) estimates that 38% of U.S. jobs could be lost to automation in the next 15 years, and 30% of existing jobs in the…