Diversity often tends to be a buzzword many companies put at the forefront of their recruitment campaigns and employer branding strategies. At the same time, the hunt for diversity first and foremost leans toward racial diversity. Many businesses believe they have diverse teams if it is diverse in the color of people’s skin. Incorrect. Diversity […]
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Seasonal hiring usually presents multiple challenges for recruiters. Not least, how to maintain a high quality of hire, whilst hiring temporary workers on short-term contracts? Better still, how to do this whilst simultaneously minimising time to hire and keeping recruitment costs down? These are just some of the issues we’ll explore in this article. We’ll […]
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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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The 2017 Talent Benchmarketing Report indicates that just 23% of recruiters measure quality of hire. It’s often seen as being ambiguous; after all, isn’t everyone’s idea of quality subjective? But it really doesn’t need to be elusive. If you know what to measure, it’s actually really simple to track. And when it’s recorded accurately it […]
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There are a ton of great recruitment videos to inspire you. But which ones get the most traction with candidates? Glad you asked. We’ve compiled a list of the top 8 recruiting videos ever made by conducting hours of research and analysis into candidate reach, traction and mitigating for company size (see our Methodology below). […]
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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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What happens when we all start hiring again? Most of us have been through economic crises before. We know that things will adapt and that hiring will eventually bounce back. Even so, the shock ripping through the recruitment world is scary and the exit path from this recession is a lot less obvious. In the […]
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