Recruitment Dating 101

Recruitment Dating 101

This Valentine’s Day let us discuss the romantic aspects of recruitment, which fuels successful placements and happy clients. After all, wooing candidates and clients share surprising DNA with finding your special someone.  So today, we are celebrating authentic recruitment affection: the genuine respect, attentiveness, and effort that builds lasting relationships. This is about innovative connecting […]

Blue Monday in recruitment

Blue Monday… a recruiter’s secret weapon?

According to psychologists the third Monday in January, also known as Blue Monday, is allegedly the saddest day of the year. However, for recruiters it can be one of the best days to pull in new candidates, engage with old recruits, as well as establishing your goals for the year ahead and much more. The […]

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Top Recruitment and Hiring Trends

The recruitment landscape has changed phenomenally in recent years. More than ever before, we find ourselves at the mercy of external factors affecting the economy and, in turn, the ability to find the right talent. Coupled with technological changes, an increasingly competitive job market and, post-COVID, significant changes to how work looks for many people, […]

4 Causes of a Bad Candidate Experience

4 Causes of a Bad Candidate Experience

The candidate experience is more or less defined as the candidate’s encounter with the recruiting process from beginning to end: job enquiries, proactive candidate resourcing (job boards, LinkedIn), job applications, interview preparation/feedback, pre and post placement. Research from the Talent Board found that improving candidate experience is “recruiters’ number one goal for 2019” and “80–90% […]

7 Lessons Recruitment Managers Can Learn From Jurgen Klopp

7 Lessons Recruitment Managers Can Learn From Jurgen Klopp

According to the BBC, approximately 750,000 people lined the streets of Liverpool to welcome Liverpool FC bring home the European Cup in early June 2019. While the dust has settled on this achievement, what can and should be reflected on is the management style of Jurgen Klopp; the architect of Liverpool’s victory in Madrid. What […]