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Talent Acquisition

5 Things a CV Won’t Tell You About a Candidate

Most recruitment processes will start with potential candidates sending through their applications or CVs, and as a recruiter, it’s part of your role to screen the responses and pinpoint the most suitable applicants. However, you could be missing out on some great candidates if you’re focusing solely on a candidate’s CV and not delving deeper…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Strength in Positivity

To thrive in the modern business world it’s critical that employees are enabled to play to their strengths in a volatile and fast-moving marketplace. The ability to adapt, engage, communicate and collaborate are crucial in terms of sustainable employability and contribution to the workplace effort. For good employers this means providing an environment where career…

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Talent Acquisition

Recruiting Senior-level Employees: 6 Solid Tips

Sponsored by MightyRecruiter Recruiting for senior-level employees can be a headache, especially in an economy with near-full employment. When recruiting for a senior position, which typically requires a detailed recipe of hard and soft skills, accomplishments, and professional experience, the field can seem awfully narrow. Make your challenge for 2019 to sharpen your senior-level recruiting…

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Talent Acquisition

6 Trends to Talk to Your Clients About

Christmas and New Year is well and truly over, and it’s back to work for recruiters throughout London. We expect the world of work to continue to evolve over the next 12 months as new ways of thinking unfold and take shape. As experts in employment, we are responsible for keeping our clients informed on…

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Employer Branding

How Employers Can Keep Workers Happy

January can be a struggle for many of the UK’s workers, as life returns to normal after the revelries of the festive season. The combination of heading back to work, gloomy winter weather, and the financial consequences of over-indulging during the Christmas break can leave us all feeling low. This year, the ‘most depressing day…

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Workplace

The Benefits of Taking Your Work Outdoors

Most Americans – in fact, nearly 90 percent of us – spend the majority of our time indoors. We may be seated at our desks in front of a computer for eight hours a day or peering into a laptop screen at home or a café. Unfortunately, these patterns of sedentary activity can have serious…

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Talent Acquisition

Think Like a Job Seeker

Through my years of working in the Talent Acquisition industry, I’ve come across many professionals who have varying views on how to attract and find the right talent.  Most professionals take a pray and post approach to finding talent.  Instead of thinking outside the box to find talent, they rely on the traditional job boards,…

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Talent Acquisition

The Recruiting Process is a Series of Questions

The recruiting process can be full of roadblocks, bumps, and workarounds that eventually lead you to a great hire. Getting through each step of the process involves a lot of work, but is there a way to smooth things out and ensure the process doesn’t take such a toll on your team? Yes, there is…

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Workplace

The Future of Workplace Wellbeing: 5 Trends to Watch

There is no better time to think about wellness and wellbeing – especially in the workplace. With so much focus on eating well, taking care of our mental health, and trying to fit more physical exercise into our lives, here are the top 5 trends employee wellness experts Elevate think will be big this year.…