OK so this is a bit different to previous blogs I’ve written but it’s January and I’m feeling cathartic. Maybe it’s also because I’ve finally reached the required level of grey hairs to be considered a veteran of the recruitment industry or maybe I just think we should all stop to consider how others feel …
An Assessment Centre combines a number of tasks and exercises to test a group of potential applicants for open opportunities within your company. The standard timescale is likely to be a half to a full day and you would expect to assess up to 10 (usually 6-8) applicants during the course of the event. The …
Like any other area of your business it is essential that you keep a firm handle on key statistics relating to your recruitment efforts on an ongoing basis. This will ensure that you are able to assess not only what your company is doing well, but more importantly to highlight key areas of concern which …
What may seem entirely obvious seems to constantly be ignored when it comes to recruitment advertising. When you advertise a role the sole purpose, aside from generating awareness of your brand, is to provoke a response to that advertising – in other words receive a relevant application. So why do the majority of people get …
What is pre-boarding? Put simply pre-boarding is the time between a candidate accepting an offer of employment to starting on day one. Another phrase we’ve used is ‘decision to desk’, in other words the candidate deciding to join the company and then arriving at their desk. It’s fair to say that this is a bit …
What is it? We’re often asked this question and it’s a difficult thing to define. To put it simply it’s… …the art of using competitive intelligence to understand how many candidates are in your marketplace, what their capabilities are, where you can find them and how much they’re paid… To give an example, if a …
In an increasingly competitive jobs market, an effective and insightful job specification is essential when looking to fill a position successfully. What ultimately seems like a straightforward task can be pitted with issues and all companies have their own approach to this with two mirroring jobs from differing companies often looking very different. When …
What’s the point? It never ceases to amaze us how many clients still don’t carry out exit interviews with their outgoing employees. You may think “why bother?” but the reality is an exit interview is one of the very few times you can glean a really honest opinion from someone who has first-hand experience of …
What are they? By definition employee referral is a structured programme employers put in place to encourage and incentivise their employees to recommend candidates from their own network. In theory it’s a fairly obvious initiative to put into place and the benefits may seem obvious, however the success of these schemes can vary wildly. …
Interviews are all too often something which people just end up doing as they progress within their career. You finally hit that infamous Manager level and the next thing you know, you’re in a windowless room, a crumpled, poorly aligned and unread CV in hand and expected to convince this poor unsuspecting applicant that you’re …