When I first started life as a recruitment consultant my manager and mentor at the time told me that there are only three things that are important in the hiring process: Personality. Personality. Personality This advice is so simple and so true. In professional sales there is no bigger truth than people buy people, and…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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From the sheer number of reports and statistics being published about the current lack of opportunities in the UK job market, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the outlook was bleak for anyone wanting to embark on a new career. With UCAS figures showing a record number of students being accepted at universities and the…
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With millions of highly skilled employees on LinkedIn, the professional networking site is an essential tool for corporate and agency recruiters alike. The ‘serious network’ has been the dominant player since it first launched in 2003 and no new platforms have seriously challenged its market position. The world’s largest professional social network has over 750…
I started my recruitment career as a researcher in an executive recruitment agency. Old-school cold calling was all I did, including identifying target candidates via cover stories and then cold calling the prospects later, but is it still as effective? What is cold calling According to the dictionary, Merriam-Webster defines cold calling as: “a telephone…
The key to getting the best talent on board or having a reputation for being the best recruiters in the industry is all down to recruitment marketing and it’s not as complex as it sounds. That’s according to Lisa Jones from Barclay Jones. For Lisa, the new age of recruitment marketing is about solving problems within…
It’s your recruitment consultant’s first day as the newest hire in the office and you’re left wondering how you are going to get them to from zero to hero as quickly as possible. Make sure you put time aside to sit down with your new consultant and break down what to expect from them each…
Is your hiring process prejudiced? Recent research from Mckinsey shows that a gender and ethnically diverse workforce produces greater company return than a homogeneous one. So why are we still hiring the wrong people? Well it’s not for the lack of trying. Western companies spend billions every year on trying to de-clone their workforce. In 2015,…
Everyone enjoys playing games – especially if it’s a welcome distraction from real work. Sadly there’s no prize on offer here but if you win you could get bragging rights all week which, lets face it, is worth more than any prize. With the start of the new year a lot of people are considering changing…