In a candidate led market, it’s essential to stand out from your competitors if you want to attract top talent – and your job advert is your first opportunity to grab their attention. But with so much choice at a click of a button, you need an engaging, informative and well-structured advert to entice the…
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If you use YouTube on a regular basis, whether that’s for personal or professional purposes, you’ve probably noticed that the platform is being used in a whole range of different ways by its users. You may have also noticed that some of these ways are… ineffective. For every viral hit, there’s plenty of other videos…
Sponsored by LiveCareer Every company wants to attract hot young talent, but seasoned recruiters have learned that what worked ten years ago doesn’t have the same results today. Each generation has its own “love language” when it comes to the workplace, and for that reason, Millennials and Gen Z respond to different things than their…
No two companies are the same. So it makes sense that when it comes to recruitment, every company does things slightly differently. Nevertheless, there are a few things that every recruiter should try to incorporate into their strategy. Here are seven of the most important aspects for any recruitment process: 1. Writing the Job Advertisement…
The way a business represents themselves in job adverts in many ways determines the quality of candidate that applies. Within this, there is an unconscious bias that unintentionally seeps its way through based on the wording and language used by the writer. For example, companies find themselves only receiving male applications but they don’t understand why.…
Saying spending hours on hours finding the right person for the right job can be a long and tedious process is an understatement. Dealing with thousands of applications and hundreds of candidates on a weekly basis can make your job difficult to cope with. So just like many other recruiters out there, you try to…
Are you looking to streamline your job ad to onboard talent with the right KSA? Well, then you might want to ditch the jargon. Acronyms and technical jargon may be one man’s familiar language, but they will be foreign to many others, especially the young. A study by Business in the Community and the City…
I’ve been a little busy lately (for ‘busy’ read ‘writer’s block’). While thinking about what to write next, it hit me out of the blue! Or should I say, Richard Branson told me… Let me explain. On LinkedIn (a recruiting gem) there are countless memes flying about (for the less hip recruiters out there, a meme…