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Enhancing Emerging Talent and Career Transition Hiring at UK Power Networks
UK Power Networks, the largest electricity distribution network in the UK, has appointed ThriveMap to elevate its recruitment process for emerging talent and career changers. This collaboration focuses on bespoke pre-hire assessments designed to improve candidate experience, boost retention, and ensure highly accurate hiring decisions. The challenge Recruiting for vital roles like Cable Jointers, Overhead […]
Enhancing entry-level hiring with Realistic Job Assessments at goeasy
goeasy, a leading provider of consumer loans in Canada, aimed to transform their entry-level hiring process and selected ThriveMap’s pre-hire assessment tools. In this interview, Mark Michel, goeasy’s Retail Talent Acquisition Manager shares how incorporating Realistic Job Assessments into their entry-level hiring process has transformed their recruitment strategy. Here’s what he had to say: Q: […]
Symptoms of Recruiting Sickness
In many organisations, the relationship between talent acquisition and hiring managers has gone awry. Hiring managers are taking recruiting into their own hands. They’re briefing third-party agencies to fill positions or even conducting their own outreach. This often results in hiring managers and recruiters looking for different qualities in new hires, leading to a disconnect. […]
Skills-Based Hiring: What You Need to Know
In the rapidly evolving job market, skills-based hiring is becoming increasingly significant, heralding what some call the “death of the degree.” With technology advancing at breakneck speed, employees find themselves in a constant cycle of acquiring new skills to stay relevant. This shift has led many job seekers and employers alike to prioritize skills and […]
Hospitality Recruiting Strategy: 15 Tips to Improve Your Hiring
In the fast-paced realm of hospitality, where seasonality, diverse roles, and fierce competition for talent are constants, crafting an effective recruitment strategy demands a tailored and nuanced approach. The unique challenges posed by the industry’s dynamic nature necessitate a specialised methodology to not only attract but also retain skilled staff. This step-by-step guide unveils the […]
High Volume Contact Centre Recruitment: Best Practice Process
High churn, poor candidate experience, and elevated costs can all be symptoms of a recruitment process that needs reviewing and updating. In this article, Chris Platts, CEO of ThriveMap, walks you through a step-by-step process to streamline your contact centre staff recruitment, offering tips to cut costs, optimise hiring efficiency, prioritise an exceptional candidate experience, […]
How to achieve hiring criteria alignment in the recruitment process
Ensuring alignment among stakeholders on hiring criteria is paramount for an efficient, equitable, and successful recruitment process. Misalignment can lead to hiring the wrong candidates or erroneously rejecting strong candidates, resulting in prolonged hiring timelines and unnecessary friction. Here, Chris Platts, CEO at ThriveMap, talks through a streamlined approach to achieve alignment among different stakeholders: […]
How to design an inclusive and effective graduate recruitment process
Graduate roles differ significantly across companies and even within various departments of an organisation. Successfully identifying the right-fit graduates hinges on a robust recruitment process. This process not only assists internal teams in clarifying their needs but also ensures candidates have realistic expectations about their roles from the start. Chris Platts, CEO and founder of […]
How to Hire Emotionally Intelligent People: Lap of Love Spotlight
It’s said that there are nine categories of intelligence. This means that while some individuals might excel in the structured world of mathematics, others will master more physical tasks, and so on. When it comes to recruiting people with certain forms of intelligence, one type of intelligence isn’t easy to identify from screening a CV […]