Recruitment 2.0

Each week brings us new surveys on the crises affecting talent acquisition and HR. With a (slightly) tongue-in-cheek approach, we highlight the things we’ve heard enough of already this year.

As low productivity tightens its hold on the UK workforce, employee happiness levels and engagement slump with it. 2016's Global Workforce Happiness Index ranks the UK a lowly 30th, well below many of its European neighbours. For some HR practitioners, this may come as no surprise.

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights condensed to a few links. Read on for interesting topics regarding recruiting, technology and other random subjects.

As we’ve often lamented on this blog, employers are still reluctant to fully embrace the advantages of HR software in the hiring process, preferring to hold on to the familiarity of manual recruitment systems. In the meantime, technology continues to advance at a rapid pace and businesses lose out on sought after talent. Resistance to HR software is perpetuated by common myths, here we bust five of them:-

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights condensed to a few links. Read on for interesting topics regarding recruiting, technology and other random subjects.

A challenging candidate experience, initial screening, two telephone interviews and finally a face-to-face meeting, all taking place over four long weeks. It’s everything HR is urged to avoid in order to attract talent, but this is no ordinary brand's hiring process. This is Google.

Few recruiters sail through their career with a 100% success rate on placements. There’s always the one that got away, or in this case, walked out within the rebate period.

Perfecting your talent acquisition strategy isn’t a one-off task, it’s a work-in-progress. HR can be its own worst enemy in achieving that progress. A pile of unsuitable CVs and a growing list of rejected job offers suggests that your failure to attract talent might be a case of in-house sabotage. Here’s what we mean:-

Your weekly dose of news and blog highlights condensed to a few links. Read on for interesting topics regarding recruiting, technology and other random topics.

Blue Monday, officially ‘the most depressing day of the year’, takes place on 18th January. With its own Twitter hashtag #Blue Monday carries with it an estimated cost to the UK economy of £93 billion.