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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Dyslexia is incredibly prevalent in our society and is a specific learning difficulty which affects around 1 in 10 of us. There is therefore every chance that someone within your family or social circle may have dyslexia but there is also every chance you may not know as it is often not something which people
So, I will start this blog by getting it out there straight away… I am a dog lover so you can expect an biased view in my thoughts here and for that, there is simply no apology! In recent years we have seen a considerable rise in companies opening their doors to man’s best friend
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