Recruitment 2.0

The talent shortage continues to throw HR into disarray. The latest JobsOutlook Survey from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found that two in every five businesses would need to recruit to meet additional demand in their business.

Today’s recruitment roundup features the news of Apple’s secret job advert, the most ridiculous workplace rules and celebrates the 10th anniversary of Twitter hashtags.

In a candidate driven jobs market, the preferences and search habits of talent is often subject to change. These emerging trends may be affecting your ongoing graduate recruitment strategy:-

As just 8 candidates apply for each highly skilled vacancy HR must turn its attention to employee retention. Here are five secrets to getting started:-

Today’s recruitment roundup features the best companies to interview according to Glassdoor, the news that UK unemployment has fallen to a new low and the 10 GIFs that summarise every conversation between recruiters and HR (ever!)

Four out of five candidates attending interview receive no feedback if their application isn’t successful.

Keeping pace with the latest developments affecting your ability to source talent can seem like one task too many for under pressure HR teams striving to compete with the more efficient recruitment processes of their competitors. With recruitment software you can do just that.

Today’s recruitment roundup reveals the 7 deadliest jobs in the UK, the ‘perfect storm’ awaiting the UK workforce and 10 outrageous CV blunders. 

The emergence of a memo from a Google software engineer blaming the lack of women in top tech jobs on ‘biological differences’ underlined the fact that not-so unconscious bias is still alive and in some cases thriving in the workplace. While the tech giant was quick to denounce his views, it underlines the problem of stereotypes and bias that are also evident in hiring processes.

As employers finalise graduate recruitment campaigns the race is on to hire the top talent. If your campaign is failing to live up to your expectations, here are three reasons why:-