Majority of HR managers believe delays to hiring is negatively impacting business performance Employer Brand and retention cited as key priorities for HR in 2022 60% HRs say it’s taking longer to hire people compared to pre-pandemic BOSTON, MA and MANCHESTER, UK, 19th May 2022: Delays to hiring are having a negative impact on business […]
What is Tech RPO? Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) is when an organization hands over their recruitment processes in their entirety to an external provider. Tech RPO refers to the same process but exclusively for tech recruitment. Why use an RPO provider for your tech recruitment? There are several reasons to use a dedicated RPO provider: […]
Interns and Internships are inextricably linked – an intern is how you refer to someone undertaking an internship. The internship is the programme an intern undertakes. An internship is a period of time spent training to gain the necessary qualifications or experience for a particular role. Unlike work placements, where students take time off to […]
Tech talent recruitment can be a difficult process with many aspects needing consideration; what are your organisation’s unique selling points and strengths? Do you have an attractive EVP? What skills are you targeting and where are the candidates you’re seeking most likely to be found? To improve their tech talent recruitment efforts, organisations can make […]
Now that working remotely is becoming the new norm, companies are having to adapt to this new way of working. One of the challenges of this, is how to integrate new starters to your business. Is there a way to do digital onboarding right? According to research by Glassdoor, companies with a strong onboarding process […]
Which type of recruitment is best for your organisation? There are several an organisation can choose from – we’re going to focus on Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), In-house and Embedded Recruitment. Embedded recruitment: Embedded recruitment is where recruiters are placed within an organisation to represent them effectively in the talent market. As a process, it’s […]
Toxic environments are identified as the most common factor that put women off tech roles, with 21% citing frequent experiences Only 17% feel that a lot of progress has been made to attract women to tech roles in the last five years Manchester, UK; 8 March 2022: The majority of women in technology have experienced […]
It’s an age-old debate when you write a job advertisement; do you show the salary or do you write something vague like “competitive”? For years, negotiating salary has been a bit like a game of cat and mouse; employers want to gauge what a candidate is already earning to determine how much they’ll offer them […]
Scaling tech businesses, in particular, have seen a huge rise in demand over the last few years as our reliance on technology grew significantly. Take the likes of Zoom, for example, its sales were up 370% in 2020 compared to the previous year, and it expects sales to rise by more than 40% in 2021. In the […]
In today’s competitive and candidate-driven job market, hiring managers can spend as little as seven seconds looking at a CV as they’re under pressure to screen quickly. Therefore, it’s not surprising that job seekers may want to add a little creativity to their applications in a bid to help them stand out and capture attention. So, in principle, a creative CV should hold the gaze of a hiring manager for a little bit longer, but again there are some complications. Firstly, if you’re trying to show your skills or experience creatively, it may be harder for hiring managers to find the information they’re looking for. Trying to be too clever or too creative could fail as it could be harder to interpret some of the key points that you wish to stand out, but that very much depends on the layout and design you opt for. Remember that relevance is what’s important to recruiters. Fancy layouts don’t prove candidates can work (unless it’s for a creative design role).
