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Talent Acquisition

What is Your #1 Piece of Advice You Would Give to Candidates?

There are probably a million questions you could ask our panel of recruitment experts but pinning them down to answer them isn’t always possible. So, while we haven’t been able to throw that many questions at them we thought it would be more useful to get that one nugget of crucial advice from them instead.…

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Talent Acquisition

LinkedIn’s Top 4 Talent Acquisition Trends

With every new year comes a number of new trends and it’s no different when it comes to talent acquisition. LinkedIn has spoken to 7000 professionals in 35 countries to put together what they say are the biggest trends in recruitment this year. The Global Talent Trends Report has just been published by the professional…

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Talent Acquisition

How Recruiters Can Attract Top Candidates in Person

It’s not always easy making a connection with top talent in person. Most often, they happen in speedy small talk at career fairs, off-hand conversations at industry conferences, or formal sit-downs during the hiring process. It’s important, however, that recruiters are able to make the most of these moments so that they can attract and…

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Employer Branding

Designing an EVP That Resonates Locally and Globally

This established tech consultancy is differentiating itself from its younger competitors by crafting the most personal EVP possible to reach both local and global talent. Anouska Ramsay is Group Talent Director at Capgemini. Have a listen to the episode below, keep reading for a summary and be sure to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast. Listen…

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Timebound

What the World’s Richest Studied at College

Not everybody is born into money, and even those who marry into extraordinary wealth sometimes prefer to do things their own way – right Meghan? There are lots of self-made millionaires out there too (including, of course, pre-Harry Meghan) and many of them began their journey to success by knuckling down with the books. So…

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Workplace

Encouraging Employees to Buy Into Business Security

Despite not being a priority for many businesses, security needs to be a part of every small business’s identity. With crimes against small businesses costing an estimated £12 billion a year and fraud claims on the rise, it’s the smaller firms that suffer the biggest hits if they don’t protect themselves. Companies have always been…

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Workplace

Surprising Career Habits of Highly Successful People

When observing highly successful people, it’s easy to assume they must have had a string of great luck that landed them in their good fortune. And, if it wasn’t luck, surely, they were born with super-human abilities that made their rise to greatness quick and effortless. But our latest research confirms good luck and good…

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Talent Acquisition

What is Personal Brand for Candidates and How Does it Work?

We’ve all heard of employer brand and what that can do for your recruitment efforts but there’s also such a thing as a personal brand. This week our panel of experts unpick exactly what that means and why future hires should consider having one. Kerri-Ann Hargreaves Having a strong personal brand is incredibly important. Be…

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Talent Acquisition

4 Rules for Hiring From the Competition

In my thirty years of helping companies hire from their competitors, I have come to believe in two truths: when the economy is either very good or very bad, the amount of lateral hiring ticks up dramatically. Two other phenomena accompany those truths: both hiring practices and the speed at which a hire goes from hello…