We’ve been writing a lot recently about what to STOP in 2017. Recruitment Marketing is next on my agenda to “trim”. There’s almost too much being done in recruitment marketing. Recruitment leaders are at risk of falling into the 50% wastage marketing model as described by our beloved John Wanamaker. We recently delivered a recruitment…
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Sponsored article by Criteria Corp. & JobFlare. For years, the traditional hiring process has relied on the same basic model: collect resumes, request interviews, administer assessments, request work samples, check references. Out of all these staples of the hiring process, research continuously reaffirms that pre-employment assessments, and particularly cognitive aptitude tests, are the most predictive…
Data security is an important topic throughout the entirety of any organization, but it could be argued that it matters, even more, when it comes to recruiters. Recruiters directly interact with a number of different third party individuals and groups, collecting and storing information that’s supposed to be kept private and secure. Should the data…
As a recruiter, you place a huge amount of faith in your candidates every time you submit their CV to a client. In fact every time you recommend a candidate, you are trusting them with your reputation, your credibility and even your livelihood. So, if you don’t want to spend hours editing CVs, ensure that…
Financial strain can creep up on anyone, especially if you work as a recruiter on a commission-based income where regular and reliable monthly pay isn’t always guaranteed. So with this in mind, how do you ensure that you plan your money sensibly with these irregular and varying pay cheques? Here, David Rankin from Creditfix, shares…
Everybody wants people to talk about their company, but none more so than the people who have applied for a job within your organisation. Whether you end up recruiting them or not, you want candidates to tell others how easy it was to apply for a job with your company and whether they felt that…
Recruiting can be a long slog. All of the different components of the jobs, from cold calling for new clients, postings your jobs, sourcing candidates, reading resumes and performing interviews, can take up most of your day. To reduce your administrative workload and free yourself to focus on tasks that matter most, many recruiters use…
Now it may be a question you might have asked while interviewing potential employees, but how seriously should you consider the answer to “which children’s character best describes you?” A British shoe repair and key cutting business is doing just that. Timpson are now recruiting staff according to which Mr Men characters their personalities resemble.…
As the interviewer or recruiter during a job interview, it’s your job to use all the questions at your disposal in order to determine whether the candidate is right for the job or not. As we all know, a person’s skills and abilities, no matter how impressive (or unimpressive) they may be, are just part…