Recruitment handbook
Top 10 Tips to Avoid Ghosting Your Candidates
A bad candidate experience can have a detrimental effect on both brands and those applying to work with them. During the pandemic, we saw a huge increase in volume of applicants for different positions. Rumors ran rife about being ghosted deep into the recruitment process. We wanted to investigate the scale of the problem and the damage being done, so we commissioned some research.
How to Keep Employees Engaged in a Remote Workplace
Remote working is now one of the more popular ways for businesses to keep their staff. The pandemic made it necessary for many companies to shift their operations into a less office-centric environment for fear of infection. Now, with vaccines available, the question has been raised as to whether businesses will continue to allow remote working for employees.
10 Best Ways to Ensure You Find the Right Person for Your Job Opening
Do you need ten tips for hiring an employee? Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your work environment, and time-consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand, pays you back in employee productivity, a successful employment relationship, and a positive impact on your total work environment.
How to Work From Home Remotely as a Recruiter
Working from home has been very common these days but a few years ago it was very rare and was not considered as an ethical way.
Overcoming Burnout as a Recruiter
Burnout is no joke. It’s an extreme state of exhaustion that can manifest as demotivation, anxiety/stress or feeling overwhelmed. Unsurprisingly, the rates of burnout have risen exponentially since the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, web searches for the phrase ‘signs of burnout’ were up 150% in 2020 from previous years, as many workers felt extra pressure to perform to help their companies navigate through the pandemic.
How Recruiters Can Adapt To Major Shifts In Candidate Attitudes
This past year has greatly altered the dynamics of the U.S. labor market, including job seekers’ expectations of employers, according to a new 2021 Job Seeker Nation Report from Jobvite. It is predicted that many of the changes experienced will be here to stay, bringing about what many believe to be the rise of the optimized workforce. As a result, talent leaders and recruiters must understand how to adjust efforts for the job market today and into the future.
3 Reasons Why Recruiters Should Invest In Marketing Automation
When the world is extremely busy online, ensuring that a carefully crafted piece of email content doesn’t end up straight in a candidate’s ‘delete’ folder, should be a high priority for a recruitment agency’s marketing department.
Here are some of the reasons why more recruitment agencies and their marketing teams should be turning to automation if they want to interact with candidates on a more granular level and improve their overall conversion rate…
How Has The Recruitment Process Changed In The New ‘Virtual’ World?
It is fair to say that 2020 shook recruitment (along with most other sectors) to its core. Accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, changes to the recruitment industry that were expected to take years have happened in mere months.
As such, the definition of ‘workplace’ has changed dramatically — a lasting change that will undoubtedly continue long after the pandemic is over. But what does this momentous shift mean for financial and accountancy recruitment going forward? In short — digitization.
Why Hiring Young Talent Creates Opportunities For Innovation
You could say that, from a professional standpoint, young people have been amongst the hardest hit by the economic effects of the pandemic. Organisations facing financial issues and seeking to preserve their assets were forced to stop hiring new talent, delay the start of grad schemes and put apprenticeship programmes on hold.
Understandably, many industries made the difficult decision to protect what they already had.
The Key Lessons HR Leaders Should Learn From COVID-19
Coronavirus has impacted and will continue to impact the workplace in many ways, from the office layout, having more remote workers and tech-savvy employees, to an increased awareness and openness around mental health illness. Future workplaces are likely to see a rise in the number of remote workers.
They have the office set up and technology needed to work efficiently from home, and we have the right communications and management processes in place to support our employees.