Employee retention is simply keeping those whom you wish to keep and letting go of those whom you do not wish to keep. However, 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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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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Our best recruiting books 2024 list compiles our 19 favourite books for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals to read this year. When I started my career in recruitment in 2005, there wasn’t much content out there for recruiters beyond a few classic sales books and a handful of blogs. It was about learning by doing, […]
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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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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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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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Everyone knows how stressful interviews can be, but although they commonly cause sweaty palms for interviewees, they can cause stress for recruiters and hiring managers too. Interviewing entails a lot of time and effort on both sides and often still results in failed hires. A CareerBuilder survey states that a staggering 74% of employers have […]
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Hiring is a guessing game. Almost 1 in 2 hires fail in the first 18 months and, if we’re honest with ourselves, we don’t usually validate that what we’re looking for in new hires is what we should actually be looking for. Some basic KSAs (knowledge, skills, and attributes) are more important than others depending […]
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Imagine you’re about to shoot an arrow at a target. You’ve been boasting to your friends about how accurate a shot you are, and this is your opportunity to prove it to them. You shoot the arrow and it hits the centre of the target. You load up the next arrow, it hits the centre […]
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