2015 was Supposed to be a Boom Year – Was it for You?
Back in March 2014, we discussed changes in the recruitment market – especially in terms of finding high quality candidates. In summary, our conclusions were:
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How To Get The Best From Your Staff So They’ll Stay
Having happy, motivated staff increases your productivity and simply makes your company a better place to work. We’ve discussed how to hire right and the importance of attitude over skills. But there’s one more vital aspect that you’ll need to get right if you want to hire staff that stay – the job itself.
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Consequences Of Hiring The Wrong Person
Two weeks in, you realise you’ve hired the wrong person. Knowing you’re going to have to ‘let them go’ and start the whole process again, you worry about the money you wasted on recruitment and their salary.
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Why Qualifications, Skills & Experience Are Overrated
When most companies recruit they focus on three main areas: skills, qualifications and experience. However, these are not the areas that cause problems down the line.
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Why Is The Typical Traditional Recruitment Experience A Bad One?
You shell out a bunch of money and in return you get a bunch of CVs that are not quite right. Or you spend an arm and a leg for a headhunter to aggressively stalk your ideal candidate – oh, and that’s after you’ve provided the list of names
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DIY Recruitment: Your Step By Step Guide
Recruitment is hard. Yet, sometimes it’s not possible to outsource it to someone else.
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How To Be Specific About Who You Want, Without Discriminating
Recruitment forces you to discriminate. You have to go through a process that allows you to uncover the distinction between your candidates and choose the best one.
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Weed Out Non-Starters Early In Your Recruitment
Sometimes, the real show-stoppers to recruitment are not the little things you’ve worked so hard to identify, they’re the big, obvious things that it’s so easy to take for granted.
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What’s The Secret To A Happier Workplace?
Limitless Holidays. A foreign idea to most of us, but not to Richard Branson or those at Netflix Inc.
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Do You Know About Parental Leave?
If one of your employees is pregnant then, no doubt, you’ll be gearing up for her maternity leave.
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Why put your business growth on hold just because it’s summer?
For many businesses July and August are a chance to take things easy. And we can understand why…
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On Your Feet, Britain!
“Britain’s couch potato lifestyle contributes to as many deaths as smoking and threatens to bankrupt public services.”
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