At heart, recruiters are hustlers. They like to pick up the phones and make calls to win new business and place their candidates. In other words, sitting back and waiting for leads to come in just doesn’t feel right. As a result, passive marketing strategies such as SEO have not caught in the world of…
A company’s ability to save money through corporate philanthropy is not a new concept, but it is often an underrated one. The average employee turnover rate of all U.S. industries is 16.7%, which is costing companies huge amounts of money. If you lose a top performer, everyone in the business is affected. Replacing them could…
What content pulls on the heartstrings and really moves people? This week we chat with Will Staney, founder and CEO Proactive Talent all about creating engaging content for employer branding. Have a listen to our chat below, keep reading for a summary and don’t forget to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast. What is your approach…
When assessing a candidate’s suitability for your vacancies, it’s vital to see facts and figures throughout their CV. Numbers provide scale, context and give you a much greater understanding of candidate capabilities – without them, many statements can be left open to interpretation. For example, two different candidates could list “team leadership” as a skill…
After years spent studying and racking up thousands in debt to achieve a degree you would think the first thing a student has to do is get a job – before they’ve even graduated. But not everyone thinks so. In fact Mary Curnock Cook, the outgoing head of British university admissions service UCAS, says students…
Bias in hiring is still a widespread problem. Even when we have the best intentions, unconscious biases – automatic, mental shortcuts used to process information and make decisions quickly – can negatively affect our recruiting decisions outside of our awareness and control. Fortunately, we can now turn to technology to help solve this very human…
Despite the strides we have made in gender equality, female workers still get paid less than their male counterparts, with women significantly underrepresented in senior management roles. Discrimination and unequal pay is illegal, but the facts show that we still face huge obstacles in equal opportunities, and employers play a vital role in overcoming these…
There isn’t a single company on Earth that gets all of their hires right – even recruiting thought-leaders like Google. This fact has one inevitable conclusion: at some point you will need to look a bad hire in the eye and tell them they’re fired. Yet why are we so bad at letting people go…
Mobile swiping apps aren’t just for finding love and dating. Recruiters are increasingly turning to the Apple Store and Google Play to find new talent. By instantly matching employees with employers, mobile job apps have become must-have tools for hiring. Jobr say job seekers have swiped on their vacancies more than 100 million times and…