Recruitment

Read our tips and advice on everything to do with recruitment from ThriveMap, the high volume pre-hire assessment providers.

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How to Run Better Intake Meetings (For Recruiters)

What is an Intake Meeting?  The intake meeting marks the beginning of the hiring process. It’s when the recruiter meets with the hiring manager to discuss the role and the skills needed to do the job. It’s your opportunity to find out what kind of candidate the manager is looking for. An intake meeting is […]

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Recruiting Trends: Top 5 Trends You Need to Know for 2022

If someone had told you this is the way 2020-2021 would pan out, you wouldn’t have believed them. Dramatic changes in business operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic mean that organisations need to be prepared for further changes in 2022. It has become apparent that organisations with the ability to adapt under pressure are the […]

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High volume hiring: 9 ways to improve your process

Update November 2021: The market is changing as we emerge from the pandemic, and high volume hiring has never been more important or more difficult than it is today. As such we’ve reviewed our suggestions and tweaked our list to give you the very latest high volume hiring tips. Are you hiring lots of people […]

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41 Employee Retention Ideas (That Actually Work)

Employee retention is simply keeping those whom you wish to keep and letting go of those whom you do not wish to keep. But retaining top talent requires regular work. People’s priorities change, as do organizational objectives. However, what shouldn’t change is a relentless commitment to making people feel welcomed, included, and appreciated in the […]

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Recruitment Automation Software: 11 tools you need to have

Beep beep! Welcome to the new age of recruiting! Automation software has managed to embed itself throughout our daily lives, and it continues to shape our working world. Automation in the recruitment space has become an instrumental tool, particularly in the areas of candidate attraction, sourcing, selection, and candidate communication. The role of a recruiter […]

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Best Recruiting Books 2023: 19 You Need To Read

Our best recruiting books 2023 list is a compilation of our 19 favourite books for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals to read this year. In 2005, when I started my career in recruitment, there wasn’t much content out there for recruiters beyond a few classic sales books and a handful of blogs. It was all […]

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Warehouse Recruiting: 5 tips for hiring warehouse workers

Hiring warehouse workers can be a gruelling task. Finding the right applicants for the right warehouse jobs can be a challenge, so what is the best way to go about it? Some of the best advice that we’ve heard for hiring warehouse workers is to be transparent about the skills needed, be clear on the […]

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5 Big Factors Affecting Employee Attrition

Imagine you’re in a job that you don’t like and you decide to leave. Now imagine that you’re in a job that you love but you have to relocate and reluctantly resign.  On a company’s side of things, both of these situations lead to the same outcome; turnover, but they are very different situations with […]

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43 Company Culture Improvement Ideas (That Actually Work)

3. House teams – Harry Potter style Cross-team collaboration is a really big problem in companies of more than 50 people. So to get different teams speaking and learning from each other how about this company culture idea? When a new team member joins they join a ‘house’ with their own crest, colours, badges etc. […]

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