Category: Recruitment

How to Adapt Your Hiring Plans in a Crisis

2 April 2020

If, in light of current events, recruiting has taken a back seat for your business you’re not alone. For many trying to get through the Covid-19 crisis and the resulting lockdown means that hiring new team members and expanding the business has taken a temporary back seat so that they can focus on business as […]

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Interviewing During a Lockdown – Your Guide to Video Interviewing

24 March 2020

Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, recruiters have seen a 67% spike in video interviews. It makes sense; video interviews reduce the time to commute and limit exposure to the public which is crucial during a pandemic. Now we’re facing a lockdown many of us have no choice but to communicate via video for office communications […]

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7 Reasons Your Business Needs a Facebook Careers Page

10 February 2020

When it comes to recruiting the best talent, Facebook is a useful tool that employers often overlook. However, with 73% of Millennials finding their latest role on a social network, there’s never been a better time to perfect your social media recruitment strategy. Recently, many larger businesses have taken to making specialist social media pages […]

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The importance of monitoring recruitment marketing campaigns

25 November 2019

Our paid media blog series has so far consisted of discussion around its importance to recruitment, and how a shortage of knowledge is holding back the industry. However, as an increasing number of businesses are beginning to recognise the possibilities it can offer, we discuss the benefits of regularly monitoring recruitment marketing campaigns. Reduces the likelihood of mistakes […]

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The benefits of organisational meritocracy

30 October 2019

What is a meritocracy? A meritocracy refers to a workplace without hierarchy – essentially, everyone has the right to speak and the right to be heard. On this basis, employees who work hard and achieve results should progress based on their performance. A relatively new concept, a meritocratic workplace does away with the idea that […]

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How to run effective recruitment marketing campaigns

28 October 2019

Companies competing for talent in a candidate-driven market, in an era of minimal attention span have got it harder than ever. It seems like the expectation for everyone to be a marketer grows every day. From eye-catching, creative campaigns to seamless, technology-led candidate journeys, a marketing-centric approach to talent attraction is becoming a top priority […]

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RPO and in-house recruitment: What’s the difference?

15 October 2019

When scaling your business, you will eventually reach a point at which your recruitment system isn’t enough to fulfil your sudden growing need for more people. At that point, you reach a junction in the road. Do you… Expand your in-house recruitment team? Work with an RPO provider? Well, firstly, let’s explain the difference between […]

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Recruitment terminology: Defining those key words

26 September 2019

Have you ever been in a meeting in which people keep throwing around an acronym, and you have no idea what it means? As the meeting goes on, it seems like you’ve left it far too long to ask. Post-meeting, you take to Google to try and work out what on earth everyone was talking […]

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How important is paid media in recruitment?

19 August 2019

In the first instalment of our blog series exploring the role of paid media in recruitment, we discussed how a lack of knowledge was having a negative impact. The focus of this piece is on the role paid advertising can play in fulfilling a recruitment requirement. Businesses currently looking to hire are facing a number […]

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