Personal branding. What exactly does it mean and how can individuals and the organisations they represent benefit from it? Let’s take a closer look! I’ve had a chat with personal brand expert Jennifer Holloway, who specialises in getting people to blow their own trumpet… Read on for her pro tips on how to strike the perfect balance between business and personal…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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This post is sponsored by Lever, a new breed of applicant tracking system that emphasizes speed, collaboration and building candidate relationships. Forget chalk and cheese; females in technology are forces to be reckoned with. We know that women are underrepresented in many areas of the workforce. Tech is definitely one of them, with some reports…
Recruiters and recruitment marketers want talent. They want it quick and they want it to stick. The same can be said for great, easy-to-convert leads… To help with this, I have a trusty hack which I call “feeders”. They are great for recruiters who want to improve speed of attraction and conversion, as well as for recruitment…
This post is sponsored by TeamHire for JIRA, the collaborative recruitment tool making it easier to source and secure new employees. If you’re struggling to secure fresh talent to your business, it’s time to find out what’s wrong. You’re the common denominator every time a candidate drops out, not them. If you don’t take time to fix a faulty…
This is an opinion piece. If you’re interested in writing one, please get in touch. Ah yes, the Preferred Suppliers List. Challenge accepted. For many of us, the agency recruiter’s first introduction to the PSL is a mixture of trying to understand the futility of it and banging your head against a brick wall. When trying to win…
There’s much talk about organisations such as Microsoft reducing the UCAS points requirement and expanding the range of universities they will consider when hiring graduates. In fact, they’ve moved significantly further forward than many, when it comes to identifying the attributes of a young person with brilliant potential. Still, several organisations are stuck in a rut when…
It’s amazing how much agency recruiters know about what it takes to succeed in the industry they specialise in. Day in, day out, recruiters partner with the powers that be at organisations in their specific sector, getting under the skin of their hiring needs. They are the ones who know where the best candidates are working, what…
The cost of making a bad hire can be huge; it’ll eat into your finances, time and energy stores. For many companies, hiring and retaining talent is the source of a major ongoing headache. While recruitment isn’t an exact science, there are definitely a number of methods you can adopt as a business to give…
Imagine spending hours preparing for an interview, scheduling time off from your current job to attend and then giving your everything to a probing hiring manager, only to never hear back about where you went wrong and why you didn’t get the job. It would be terribly frustrating and you’d likely want little to do with that company…