We are seeing a refreshing emphasis on people talking about increasing the number of female leaders, rather than just focussing on the number of women in the boardroom. The latest independent government review, launched this year to follow on from Lord Davies’s report, has confirmed that the focus will be on building the pipeline for…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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LinkedIn – the world’s biggest professional network – continues to grow, and has truly become a force to be reckoned with. Every day, millions of us login to see how our friends are getting on in their jobs, read status updates and, sometimes, apply for jobs ourselves. Every user who signs up to LinkedIn creates…
The work of agency recruiters never stops. They are the ultimate plate spinners who could always be ‘doing more’. While they constantly strive to bring more work in, nurturing relationships with candidates and clients, some roles are honestly more pain to work on than they’re really worth. Having an impossible-to-fill role on their books is a real drainer. It doesn’t…
In the world of recruitment today, many organisations are looking much deeper into their recruitment strategy and asking – is this fit for the future? Many of the partner functions like marketing, sales and customer success, have learned that their clients go through a complex set of decisions in the lead up to buying a product…
This post is sponsored by Mighty Recruiter. Be sure to join their upcoming webinar, Katrina Collier’s Top Priorities for Social Recruiting Success in 2017, on Wednesday, December 7, and ask your questions first hand! What an exciting year of change 2016 has been for social media recruitment. We’ve seen companies embrace Snapchat for personal and…
We’ve heard the phrase, ‘you are what you eat’, but what about ‘you are what you create’? Cutting through the content noise online is difficult. How is it that some pieces of content resonate incredibly well with a particular audience, while others fall on deaf ears and flop? Some content pulls huge social engagement, but is…
I go to bed on Sunday nights more knackered than when I finish on Friday evenings. My weekends start with me schlepping my daughters to stage school and horse riding (which is all done and dusted by Saturday lunch time) and like millions of other parents, I “sacrifice” my free time at the weekends to do…
There’s nothing worse than working closely with a candidate and genuinely believing that you’ve found them the PERFECT role, only to confidently deliver them the offer and have a curveball hit you out of nowhere! They tell you that they’ve decided to stay at their current company, or that something else has popped up down the…
This post is sponsored by Technically Compatible. Times have changed. We humans have never been more connected, and yet, never been more closed off. The dawn of technology has opened endless avenues to reach candidates and for a time made all our lives easier. Now, however, the information age has turned into the information overload…