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Recruitment

Hiring Remotely: 9 Mistakes to Avoid

Fully remote hiring can be a strange concept at first. After all, who we choose to work with is an important decision, and we like to weigh important decisions carefully. We usually like to test drive our cars, view our homes and date our life partners, but with things moving online due to a global pandemic, […]

Chris Platts 26 August 2020 6 min
Recruitment

High Yield Ratio Recruitment: What is it?

Hiring can feel like a never-ending treadmill of ‘must-fill’ vacancies. Calculating your recruitment team’s yield ratio will help demonstrate the value you are adding to the organisation and help allocate your recruitment marketing budget more effectively.  Yield ratios show the percentage of candidates that pass from one stage of the hiring process to another from […]

Chris Platts 21 August 2020 6 min
Recruitment

Candidate Selection Tools: The 8 Best To Use When Recruiting

The digital ecosystem of Talent Technology is complex. Many companies talk a good game, but finding out what they actually do and how they do it takes work. This article cuts through the noise (and empty marketing promises) to provide insight into 8 of the best candidate selection tools used when hiring. Why use candidate […]

Chris Platts 20 August 2020 7 min
Recruitment

New Hire Checklist: The Complete Guide

Effective onboarding requires structured performance of a range of tasks. A new hire checklist is useful for ensuring that all new recruits undergo a consistent and first-class onboarding process.  According to research, 20% of new hires quit within the first 45 days of employment, making candidate selection and new hire onboarding an issue for any […]

Chris Platts 19 August 2020 8 min
Recruitment

The 13 Areas of Diversity Every Recruiter Needs to Know

Diversity is often a buzzword many companies use to promote their recruitment campaigns and employer branding strategies.  At the same time, the hunt for diversity, first and foremost, leans toward racial diversity. Many businesses believe they have diverse teams if they are diverse in the colour of people’s skin.  Incorrect.  Diversity does not stop at […]

Chris Platts 13 August 2020 8 min
Recruitment

Seasonal Hiring: 10 Tips to Hire Temporary Workers

Seasonal hiring usually presents multiple challenges for recruiters. How can we maintain a high quality of hire while hiring temporary workers on short-term contracts? Better still, how do we do this while simultaneously minimising hiring time and decreasing recruitment costs? These are just some of the issues we’ll explore in this article.  We’ll discuss why […]

Chris Platts 13 August 2020 9 min
Recruitment

Workforce Planning: The Ultimate Guide

Evolving organisations typically walk a thin tightrope between the twin dangers of overstaffing and understaffing.  If there are too many staff members, your company will become bloated, losing profit on unnecessary salary costs. Too few, and you can’t sustain growth or struggle to keep up with demand. We’ve prepared the ultimate guide to staff planning, […]

Chris Platts 11 August 2020 10 min
Recruitment

Preboarding: 8 Steps To Deliver An Awesome Experience

Investing in creating an excellent preboarding process is just as important as onboarding your new employees to improve new hire performance and reduce attrition. Candidates are applying for more jobs than ever before. As such it’s more likely that your candidate may still be engaged in other recruitment processes even after they’ve accepted a position […]

Chris Platts 6 August 2020 8 min
Recruitment

Employee Value Propositions: 14 Great Examples

The best employee value propositions (EVPs) resonate with us. In physics, resonance happens when one system matches the natural frequency of another, thus amplifying it. If I pushed you on the swing when you were about to move forward, you would go higher. I matched your natural frequency, so the force I applied amplified you. […]

Chris Platts 30 July 2020 12 min