28 November 2018
Building your employer brand on social and digital media is not easy. It’s not so much the visibility that is hard to achieve – employers have got their recruitment marketing agencies generating ‘content’ like never before, some good, some not so good. But real audience engagement, beyond just your page impression stats – that’s the […]
22 August 2018
We’re people, not machines This is a good thing and something that is fundamental for a productive, thriving workforce. Without difference in teams, ideas wouldn’t be born, created and implemented. So, next time you wish you were more logical or more creative, remember that it’s the interplay that makes everything possible. It needs the people […]
22 August 2018
Open-plan offices are nothing new. They have been around for over a century but reached their height of popularity in the 1960s due to the growth of office-based jobs. This uniformed approach was considered an environment that would promote interaction and collaboration among colleagues. But, does every employee flourish in the same working environment? We’ve […]
3 August 2018
The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime, so the impact this environment can have on our outlook, on life and health, is massive. The average person spends a third of each and every day in their place of work, so the quality and associations of the workplace makes a real […]
28 June 2018
Social media is fast becoming the way candidates find out about your employer brand, with a staggering 68% of millennials choosing to specifically visit company social channels to evaluate their employer brand prior to applying for a role. After the company website, the most visited site when researching a potential employer is their corporate Facebook […]
8 May 2018
Here at Talent Works we are very excited by the response to our upcoming #ITK18 event on 5th June. We are working hard to ensure the content of this event is thought provoking and relevant to a set of recruitment challenges, and actionable both at strategic and practical levels. This first event is on the […]
4 April 2018
The opening session at the ERE Enterprise Talent Acquisition: Recruiting that Scales conference was kicked off by Janice Bryant Howroyd – Founder and CEO ActOne Group, a global recruitment business. Breaking for a typical opening session, her keynote didn’t start with depressing statistics telling us about the war on talent, nor did it try to […]
26 March 2018
Over 99% of businesses in the UK are classed as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Last year this equated to 60% of all private sector employment in the UK and over half (51%) of all private sector turnover. It’s a common misconception that only large organisations can benefit from Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), small-mid size […]
8 March 2018
To celebrate International Women’s Day we collated the advertising campaigns that we found the most empowering and inspiring for women of all ages and ethnicities from recent years. Goldieblox Superbowl commercial Agency: RPA 2014 Toy manufacturer Goldieblox, who looks to inspire and educate girls about the STEM industries, scored a Superbowl commercial spot after winning […]
27 September 2017
LinkedIn has long been known as the social media network for recruitment – but should we be including the likes of Twitter and Facebook into our social media recruitment strategy? We’ve collated our top 8 social media statistics you need to know if you’re in recruitment or talent acquisition. 67% of candidates use Facebook compared […]