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With great candidates comes great responsibility - Getting candidate management right

With great candidates comes great responsibility - Getting candidate management right

Yep, candidate management isn’t a numbers game. It may be a golden oldie but the ‘treat others as you’d like to be treated’ saying fits in rather nicely here. Candidates are people, the very people that can make your brand...

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Improve candidate responses - Hone your trade and get back to basics

Improve candidate responses - Hone your trade and get back to basics

Recruitment could be accused of becoming bogged down with HR politics, marketing budgets and candidate quick fixes. It’s as ever-changing as any industry that has engagement and multiple mediums at his heart, but recruitment has to maintain its ‘human’ factors...

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Playing the long game - how to reach out to and recruit passive candidates

Playing the long game - how to reach out to and recruit passive candidates

Passive candidates really are the apple of recruiters’ eyes. They make great hires, are usually happy to talk opps with you and more than 75% are open to actively looking for a new opportunity. Passive candidates can transform into active...

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Job Advertising, Recruitment, The Candidate Experience, Tools & Tips

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Reach, Rituals and Relationships - Integrating social media into your recruiting ways

Reach, Rituals and Relationships - Integrating social media into your recruiting ways

Social media has more than earned its recruitment stripes. It’s cut the mustard and proved time and time again to be a steadfast recruitment necessity. We’re all well versed in the wonders of social media, but there are a few...

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Job Advertising, Social Media, The Candidate Experience, Tools & Tips

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Less Big Brother, more Moralistic Monitoring - How to create a people-friendly monitoring culture

Less Big Brother, more Moralistic Monitoring - How to create a people-friendly monitoring culture

The monitoring of employees in the workplace is one hot topic. On the one hand we have the employers who need to have an idea of their employees’ goings-on for both performance and protection reasons. And then on the other...

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Recruitment, The Candidate Experience, Tools & Tips

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Thinking outside the talent search box - Step away from the tired and testing techniques

Thinking outside the talent search box - Step away from the tired and testing techniques

No matter how progressive, prolific or professional you are, there’s nothing more tricky than the search for the right talent. It’s not about volume folks, there will usually be a pretty steady stream of average candidates who are simply looking...

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How to keep your employee referral program healthy and happy

How to keep your employee referral program healthy and happy

As hiring goes, your referral program is a pretty big deal. It’s one of those gifts from the recruitment gods but to tap into its talent-luring wonders you need to be ready to take it serious and then some. It’s...

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Ecosystems, Engagement & Experience - Why you should be treating candidates like clients

Ecosystems, Engagement & Experience - Why you should be treating candidates like clients

This school of thought has been making the rounds for a while now but the ethos doesn’t seem to be impacting as massively as it should. We all know the pitfalls, failings and all round hideousness of shady recruitment practices...

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Recruitment, The Candidate Experience, Tools & Tips

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Less creep, more care - How to cosy up to passive candidates

Less creep, more care - How to cosy up to passive candidates

As all good recruiters know, approaching passive candidates requires a different skillset altogether. This particular group of ‘yet to actively search’ workers are a hard nut to crack when it comes to grabbing attention and building relationships. Yes we can...

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Recruitment, The Candidate Experience, Tools & Tips

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The truth about your Talent Shortage - Myth or scapegoat?

The truth about your Talent Shortage - Myth or scapegoat?

When it comes to the infamous idea of the ‘talent shortage’, there’s usually two camps of folks; 1 - the believers who have themselves struggled to find and keep top talent and, 2 - the doubters who see this so...

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Recruitment, The Candidate Experience

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Own your Onboarding process - Evolution or Extinction

Own your Onboarding process - Evolution or Extinction

As recruitment processes go, onboarding can’t be matched in the personalisation stakes. Tools and tricks come and go but nothing affords you real impact like a good old face-to-face, hands-on encounter. And onboarding is all about exactly that. So, with...

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The Method behind the Madness - Avoid online overkill and play the long game

The Method behind the Madness - Avoid online overkill and play the long game

We’re a pretty hungry lot these days. As digital consumers we’ve come to expect quite a lot from our online endeavours in both quality and volume. Some may say that this is a dream time for marketers, recruiters and candidates...

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Job Advertising, Recruitment, Social Media, Tools & Tips

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