Choosing an agency to manage your employer branding process is not an easy task. Developing and leveraging a talent brand is key to improving talent acquisition, employee retention and engagement across the business. In other words, it’s a long-term investment that has enormous significance to an employer. Creating an identity that summarises who you are […]
With unemployment rising, getting individuals – and importantly, keeping individuals – in work is vital when it comes to stimulating and stabilising the economy as we emerge out of the Covid-19 crisis. This issue was confronted head on when Rishi Sunak took to the podium earlier this month to deliver the 2021 Budget and announced […]
There’s a lot of talk about the future of work right now, with many companies coming to realise that their employees would prefer the option to work from home at least some of the time. In fact, only 12% of employees are willing to work full-time from an office in the future. A hybrid approach to working […]
We’re in the middle of a tech skills shortage which is deeply impacting tech recruitment. Across the world, employers ranging from tech startups and scaleups to larger, established names are fighting for the brightest tech talent on the market to help them embrace the demands of the digital era. Everyone is currently fighting for the […]
When it comes to recruiting tech talent, candidates currently have a huge upper hand. Unlike the rest of the tech recruitment landscape, there are more candidates than available positions. There are presently seven tech jobs for every suitable applicant. It’s a candidate-driven market. For scaling tech businesses, the competition for tech talent is huge. They […]
When considering recruitment, it’s very easy for businesses to fall into the same trap of repeated patterns: leaning on the same advertising platforms, job boards and relying on company reputation or existing networks to attract the top candidates. However, as we keep saying, the tech recruitment landscape is fierce right now when it comes to […]
With more than half of UK firms announcing plans to hire new staff in the next three months, the tech recruitment landscape feels like a much more positive place to be. Hiring is picking up again, especially within the tech sector, where roles are being seen as essential for business continuity and progression. However, with […]
As a scaling tech business, there are many roles that are in demand. A cloud engineer is one of them. 85% of businesses worldwide are currently using cloud technology to store information, and experts claim that the cloud computing market value could reach $623.3 billion by 2023. With a rise in big data, reliance on […]
At Talent Works, we know employer branding better than most. We also know the demands and expectations of tech candidates in this competitive recruitment market. This means that we get asked many questions about building and leveraging your employer brand especially in the tech industry, where demand for talent is currently soaring, and all businesses […]
There are countless articles online about why tech businesses need to diversify and how beneficial a diverse workforce can be. Diversity at work now means more than gender and ethnicity; it relates to hiring people with a disability, from different generations, differing sexual orientations and religions, amongst other things. More than ever, there is a […]
