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…
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Just Resigned? Finish Like a Winner
Securing a new role is no mean feat; new research by Lever suggests an average of every 1 in 100 candidates is hired. Needless to say, if you’ve managed to bag the new role, you’ve fought the good fight and beaten the odds. This is cause for great celebration! Once you’ve let the great news sink in, your attention will…
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,…
You’ve landed an interview for your next big career move – a goal you have been working towards for a long time. You have all the experience required and you know you’d be a great fit but there’s one problem – your interview nerves are setting in. Believe me when I say you are not…
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…
All things being equal job seekers prefer to choose a new role not on the basis of salary or job title but for the sake of the employer brand and organisational culture. A Korn Ferry study found 73 per cent of respondents claim their number one driver at work is doing a job that has…
In the last 10 years, we have experienced one of the biggest changes in the work market: the rise of co-working spaces. Between 2005 and today, it grew from just 1 in San Francisco to 7,800 co-working spaces across the globe. In a year from now, predictions forecast 37 000 co-working spaces worldwide gathering more than…
Can you imagine how much less guilt and frustration you would feel if you could somehow make yourself do the things you don’t want to do? Put simply, sometimes it’s just really hard to motivate yourself. If only there were some fail-proof techniques to make yourself get up and get going! While this doesn’t exist (*tear*), there are…
I’m not great with predicting the future. I was pleased to be involved in a webcast with Firefish Software just before Christmas to gaze into an imaginary recruitment-focused crystal ball – but I was a little rebellious. I predicted 2017 would be largely the same as 2016, with some minor changes. Go me. My crystal ball was…