5 Ways Flat Fee Recruitment Can Improve Your Hiring Success
Recruitment, and how we do it, has undergone a seismic shift over the last 15 years. The lumbering dinosaurs of Recruitment Agencies no longer really have a safe home. Instead as the employment market has shifted in to the Digital Age, we need a different plan, one that works better in the 21st Century: Enter […]
A HR Manager’s Guide to Job Board Advertising
Job Boards. The Simplest and most straight-forward recruitment strategy, yes? Well, not quite. They are tempting, and an easy Go To Recruitment starting point, but knowing how to utilise them to your advantage can be a tall order. This is a HR Manager’s Guide to Job Board Advertising, and how to get it right. Business […]
Cheap Recruitment – Is it Really Worth It?
If you pay peanuts, you’re going to get monkeys, goes a famous quotation normally trotted out for salaries. It applies to recruitment too, which is after all a part of ‘paying’ for an employee. But is it really true? Why are there so many cheap recruitment options on the market if they don’t work? Looking […]
Improving Communication between Hiring Managers and Recruitment Agencies
It’s a relationship fraught with angst, frustration and grief, far too often, when in reality it needs to come down to active collaboration: Hiring Managers and Recruitment Agencies need to heed some important points for managing the relationship between them, before working together to achieve their goal. Net Recruit can’t stress this enough – when […]
Recruitment Agencies: Choosing the Right One For You
Choosing the best recruitment agency for you can be a minefield. Whether you’re an employer looking to fill a raft of graduate positions, a small firm looking to recruit your next Mr or Mrs Reliable, or a candidate on the hunt, knowing how to choose the right recruitment agency for you is going to be […]
Recruitment Marketing: The Facts and The Myths
It could be said that the problem with recruitment marketing is that it is a specialism that any Joe Bloggs thinks they can do. Generalists are all too willing, often fuelled by fears of expense, to believe anyone can do it. Whilst this may work on some level – you’ll get someone to fill your […]
Top 5 Recruitment Conferences You Should Attend in 2016
One of the best ways for those in charge of recruitment marketing is to attend the best available recruitment conferences. There are so many reasons why you should attend conferences, here are but a few: The amount of valuable knowledge to be gained from the talks and seminars, which can then be put into practice […]
Closed Recruitment Practices in the Public Sector – Open Consultation
Why Your Voice Matters – Make It Count You may be part of the passive generation when it comes to politics, but here’s an issue where your voice counts. The Government has released an Open Consultation that affects anyone in the Recruitment market: from employers, recruitment consultants to employees and candidates. If you’re in the […]
Good Housekeeping: 5 Things Smart Recruiters Do Every Morning
Recruiters typically have full days, with plate spinning and priorities to juggle galore. Without some well thought out and aptly managed house-keeping it won’t take long before the House of Cards comes tumbling down. If you’re not up to scratch as a Recruiter there’s always another waiting in the wings, so it matters that you’re […]
Recruitment Trends to Come in 2016
The Christmas break is an important time for recruiters to review how they’ve done in the past year and to look forward to that all-important future. With employment levels rising and competition for jobs becoming slightly less drastic, standing out from the crowd is going to be the name of the game in 2016 with […]