Recruitment 2.0

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.

To source quality candidates for your client vacancies, recruiters must ask a number of essential questions. In the first of a two part series, we present ten of the most important:-

New research from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (AAPSCo) predicts that the number of job vacancies in the UK will continue to rise in 2016. As employers ‘scramble’ to hire the best talent to protect future growth and productivity, companies need to get comfortable with digital technology to remain competitive.

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.

If you are thinking about moving from Excel spreadsheets to using recruitment software, it may seem sensible to task your internal IT team to build you a platform in-house. On the face of it, it may seem like this would save a great deal of money, as your IT team are already being paid their salary, and it would save someone researching the different options out there. In addition, it’s understandable to think that a home-grown system would be created to perfectly cater to your specific needs, maybe better than an external provider could provide.

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.