Having a recruitment strategy means taking a step back from urgently filling your roles, and creating a structured plan of action to reach, assess and hire the right people for your current and future organisational goals.
Effective, strategic workforce planning is essential for any high-performing organisation. Evolving organisations typically walk a thin tightrope between the twin dangers of overstaffing and understaffing. Too many staff and your company becomes bloated with profit being lost on unnecessary salary costs. Too few, and you’re unable to sustain growth, or struggle to keep up with […]
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Investing in creating an excellent preboarding process is just as important as onboarding your new employees when it comes to improving new hire performance and reducing attrition. Candidates are applying for more jobs than ever before. As such it’s more likely that your candidate may still be engaged in other recruitment processes even after they’ve […]
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The best employee value propositions (EVPs) are the ones that resonate with us. In physics, resonance happens when one system matches the natural frequency of another, thus amplifying it. If I pushed you on the swing at the exact moment you were about to move forward you would go higher. I was able to match […]
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Picture this scenario. You’ve just stepped into a new role as head of talent acquisition. It’s day one and you’re called into a meeting with the exec team – you don’t know much about the business yet but you’re keen to learn. The CEO asks you straight up, “What’s your recruitment strategy?” What do you […]
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Peer interview questions remain one of the most valuable ways of getting to know a prospective candidate. In a peer interview, the candidate is able to ask existing employees questions about the company and job. The hiring manager is then able to observe whether the applicant will work well with the team and peer group […]
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Full cycle recruiting is the process of managing the recruitment process from end to end. It is often described as the largest paradigm shift to hit the talent acquisition industry in years, and it seems that the hype is growing every week. Do you want to know what full-cycle recruiting is all about? Well, you’re […]
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Job boards are often recognized as the best way to hire remote employees. So knowing the best remote job boards to advertise jobs on is going to help you hire more effectively. Remote job boards are seeing a surge in popularity in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Many companies are now looking for remote employees […]
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Writing an engaging (and accurate) job description is a time-consuming process, but it’s worth the extra effort. On average it takes nearly 28 days to hire a new employee. Attracting the most suitable candidates with a compelling job description and persuasive job advert can help to reduce time to fill and improve the quality of […]
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In order to gauge the effectiveness of your recruitment process, you must keep an eye on your recruitment metrics. They are an essential part of effective, data-driven hiring, but in order to ensure efficiency in the recruitment funnel, it’s vitally important to get the right metrics in place to monitor performance. You need to make […]
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