September 9, 2020 10:28 am Quality of hire is recruiters’ most valuable metric, LinkedIn’s Future of Recruiting Report 2019 shows. Some 88% of recruiting professionals said quality of hire would be very important over the next five years. That’s an acceleration of a trend we’ve seen for years. Back in 2016, for example, LinkedIn’s Global Reporting Trends Report showed quality… Read more
August 27, 2020 1:08 pm Coronavirus cuts mean lots of recruiters are unexpectedly looking for a new job. Tech recruiters have been hit especially hard, for example. Like Sonder, who’ve had to lay-off 80% of their recruitment team. And in the UK, the latest figures show there are three-quarters of a million fewer people on payroll in August compared to… Read more
August 14, 2020 10:28 am Recruitment automation uses technology to empower your recruiters to add more value. Recruiters add most value when they apply their unique perspective, expertise and judgement. Like, deciding an unconventional candidate’s worth a chance, or persuading an on-the-fence candidate to choose you despite a higher offer elsewhere. Recruiters add least value on the mechanics of the… Read more
July 30, 2020 10:51 am Not too long ago, almost every workforce consisted of full-time, permanent employees who spent 40 hours each week chained to their desk. That’s changed in every industry – but nowhere is the change felt more strongly than the healthcare and legal sectors. In healthcare, the number of locums in the UK increased by 12,000 from… Read more
July 7, 2020 2:20 pm What is the In-house Recruitment Virtual Leaders Conference? The first of its kind from the In-house Recruitment Network, brought together 300 leaders from the Recruitment Industry on the 1st July for a full day virtual event. Attendees were able to view online demos from companies at the cutting edge of recruitment tech. What tips do… Read more
July 7, 2020 12:00 pm Recruiters are instrumental to business recovery – but they face a huge challenge. Here’s how to empower them to overcome it. According to the World Economic Forum, UK unemployment is forecasted to hit 9% by the end of lockdown. In the US, 15%. COVID-19 may cost the equivalent of 305 million full-time jobs globally. To… Read more
June 29, 2020 4:11 pm We’ve all heard about the Covid-19 testing sites in the news but did you know that it was the Tribepad ATS that Sodexo utilised to recruit all of the workers for these sites? Kathryn Pendlebury, Strategic Talent Acquisition Business Partner at Sodexo and her team have been partnering with other third party companies to staff… Read more
June 18, 2020 4:24 pm Lots of recruitment teams are facing unexpected downtime right now. The silver lining is, it’s a great time to review your processes and build a business case for the new recruitment software your team needs. But, as always, recruitment leaders face a tough battle to secure investment. Especially now, when uncertainty pulls the business’ purse-strings… Read more
June 3, 2020 4:13 pm You’ve just been charged with researching potential recruitment software for the team. Exciting! But now the pressure’s on. You’re wondering… Where should you start? What’s your boss actually expecting? How can you meet the whole team’s needs? How much detail should you include? How can you go above and beyond? In this practical toolkit, those… Read more
May 15, 2020 4:49 pm So, you’ve been thrust into an unexpected work from home situation. (Or WFH, as the cool kids are abbreviating it…) Your recruitment team is suddenly working remotely, having to find new ways to be productive together. And they’re facing all-new challenges – probably the biggest they’ve ever faced in their careers (hopefully the biggest they’ll… Read more