This article is sponsored by LinkedIn. We’re calling on UK recruiters to find out what they want to master in 2016 Ready to hear something surprising? Last month, at LinkedIn’s Talent Connect in London, Tanya Staples of Lynda.com highlighted a startling statistic: the useful shelf life of skills and knowledge has shrunk to just five…
Recruiting a new member of staff can be a time consuming task and hiring decisions shouldn’t be taken lightly. You need to think realistically whether your team have the time an expertise to find the best individual to join your business. If the answer is no, then you may want to consider outsourcing your recruitment.…
Nowadays everyone is using social media to source candidates, but few of us stray beyond the safety of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. As a result, there are a large number of other social networks out there, as of yet largely untapped for recruitment. Could some of the less publicised networks have great recruitment potential? Ever thought…
Think that a career in recruitment might be the right path for you to follow? If you’re prepared for a fast pace environment and consider yourself a people person, then why not?! Recruitment isn’t usually an industry that people dream of getting into and rather ‘fall’ into by chance; however, this doesn’t mean that it…
Disengaged employees cost businesses more than $300,000 a year. It’s been proven that introducing motivation techniques can improve a workforces productivity by 44%! But there’s no point in employing useless tactics to motivate employees – what ways actually work? In this article, we tackle the motivation myths. Myth #1: All employees are motivated by money…
A good recruiter will have the ability to make the candidate feel comfortable enough to open up to them and reveal a bit of their personality. However, as a job seeker, there is such thing as getting too relaxed and an overshare or flippant remark may cost you the job. While the recruiter is not…
Twitter – it’s extremely popular in this modern age of always being connected (we’re even on it too – @UndercoverRec!) – but how can you use it to recruit the top talent? Should you be using direct messages or @mentions to contact prospective candidates? The folks at Akken Cloud have created this handy infographic on using…
Are your employees happy? A new research report by our friends at Universum, The Global Workforce Happiness Index, shows it’s time to take a data-driven approach to attracting and retaining top talent. The company conducted the largest study to date of the most satisfied, loyal workers by country and by industry. More than 250,000 working professionals in…
We’ve all wanted at one point to just stay in bed and not go into work when our alarm rings through our head in the morning – whether it be due to illness, or you just want a day off. However, if you want your sick day request to be accepted, you need a good,…