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Talent Acquisition

What’s the Essential Tech Stack for the Modern Recruiter?

Whether the idea of modern technology makes you quiver in your boots, or makes you feel like a kid with a new toy, there is no doubt that it could become your new best friend. Saving you hours of time doing tasks that may have taken you a long time to do manually, or just…

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Employer Branding

Is Stress Affecting Your Employees’ Ability to Work?

Stress is one of the greatest obstacles to functioning normally in our daily lives. Is stress affecting your workforces’ ability to work efficiently? In 2016, UK business recorded 11.7million days that were taken off work due to stress, anxiety, and depression. The financial cost of this equated to at least £2.4billion. Stress is a psychological…

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Talent Acquisition

Artificial Intelligence for Recruitment 101

We’re all hearing about Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact business, but what really is it and what is everybody really talking about when it comes to AI? And of course, how will AI impact us as recruiters? Here at Undercover Recruiter, we are conducting an ongoing investigation into AI so we can understand…

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Employer Branding

Success Comes to All of Us in All Shapes and Sizes

Career success comes to all of us in different shapes and sizes; this is because what success means to each of us is different. Everyone has their own goals and objectives, their own success measures. These goals and objectives can create a great deal of dissatisfaction and disappointment for individuals if current work circumstances are…

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Talent Acquisition

Why People Will Always Matter in Recruiting

The future is coming to get you. For the longest time, folks have railed against the idea that technology could do what until recently recruiters (A.K.A. real human beings) could. But the truth is, when it comes to automation and tactics, we may be losing that particular fight. Today’s tech can already source a little…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Engage with LinkedIn’s 500 Million Members

Last month, we announced that LinkedIn has surpassed half a billion global members, with more than 23 million members now signed up in the UK. That’s almost one-third of the UK population. This constitutes a huge pool of talent for recruiters. However, the vast majority aren’t actively looking for new jobs. They’re passive candidates. These…

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Workplace

How Mike Tyson Helped Me Get a $20,000 Pay Rise

You wouldn’t think throwing and dodging fists for world heavyweight titles would translate to exceptional negotiation skills. I mean, this is the same guy that has put these pearls of wisdom out into the world: “I don’t understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don’t bother no one.” “I just want…

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Talent Acquisition

5 Things Recruitment Marketers Need to Stop Doing

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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Employer Branding

With A.I. Now a Reality, Are Human Workers Soon to Become Old Tech?

A recent report by PWC has highlighted that more than 10 million UK workers are at high risk of being replaced by robots in the next 15 years (this represents 30% of all jobs). Sectors at particularly high risk are transport, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade and administrative roles. Those who left school with only…