Picture this. You’re getting overwhelmed with open vacancies for jobs that need filling fast. You log into your ATS, but instead of the usual stack of CVs, each candidate is ranked from top to bottom in order of their job suitability. As you start to scan down the candidate shortlist you realise that your top […]
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You’re hiring for a role that requires excellent typing skills. It could be for data entry, note-taking, clerical work, translations, or transcriptions. Either way, testing someone’s ability to type quickly and accurately is best done via an online typing assessment. We’ve compiled five of the best online typing assessments so you can find the lightning-fast […]
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Attitudes to diversity are changing. #BlackLivesMatter is a movement, not a moment. And it’s put recruitment and recruiter bias firmly in the spotlight. Talent Acquisition leaders across the world are desperately seeking to ascertain whether their hiring practices are fair and inclusive. A range of diversity-friendly tools and training programs are here to help, but […]
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Companies have a wealth of information about their employees. Most HR systems can easily capture performance data, retention data and employee engagement. This data lends itself well to using predictive analytics to hire people using statistical models instead of pure intuition. Collecting and organising data on job performance, staff retention and engagement of existing employees […]
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It’s difficult enough to hire one new employee, so mass hiring can seem like a truly daunting task. Hiring at scale throws up some unique challenges. Effective workforce planning, efficient hiring processes and recruitment automation software all play their part. In this post, we give you the template to develop a mass hiring recruitment plan […]
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For many, AI conjures up images of Hal from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s a good idea in theory but a dystopian nightmare in practice. But despite our apocalyptic fears, AI is strangely marketed as a recruiter’s new best friend. In fact, I can’t help but wonder that if they’d named it Augmented Intelligence instead […]
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Fully remote hiring can be a strange concept at first. After all, who we choose to work with is an important decision, and we like to weigh important decisions carefully. We usually like to test drive our cars, view our homes and date our life partners, but with things moving online due to a global pandemic, […]
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Hiring can feel like a never-ending treadmill of ‘must-fill’ vacancies. Calculating your recruitment team’s yield ratio will help demonstrate the value you are adding to the organisation and help allocate your recruitment marketing budget more effectively. Yield ratios show the percentage of candidates that pass from one stage of the hiring process to another from […]
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The digital ecosystem of Talent Technology is complex. Many companies talk a good game, but finding out what they actually do and how they do it takes work. This article cuts through the noise (and empty marketing promises) to provide insight into 8 of the best candidate selection tools used when hiring. Why use candidate […]
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