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How to automate frontline recruitment

Frontline staff are the backbone of your organization, pivotal in driving performance, profitability, and growth. However, the conventional approach to filling these critical positions has historically been focused solely on filling vacancies, leading to recruitment challenges and high attrition rates. If you’re seeking ways to streamline your recruitment process for frontline roles and save valuable […]

Emily Hill 8 September 2023 3 min
Recruitment Advice

5 signs you need to change your pre-employment assessment solution

If you’re currently using a pre-hire assessment, you may need an upgrade. Recognize any of the signs below? If yes, then it’s time to consider upgrading. 1. You’re not seeing value against your hiring goals Your hiring goals may involve improving employee retention, improving new hire performance, or reducing the length of the hiring process. […]

Chris Platts 20 February 2023 3 min
Recruitment Advice

ThriveMap Joins Forces with Lever to provide full candidate application tracking, analysis, and recruitment

ThriveMap provides end-to-end assessment solutions with Lever’s Talent Relationship Management platform. We’re proud to announce an enhanced integration with LeverTRM, to provide end-to-end recruitment solutions. This integration will help companies find the right talent more quickly within this Lever partnership. It enables high-volume recruiters to take control of their recruitment process and ensure that the […]

Chris Platts 23 September 2022 3 min
Recruitment Advice

5 Reasons to Integrate Pre-Hire Assessments with Your ATS

Why Should You Integrate Pre-Hire Assessments with Your ATS?  Integrating pre-hire assessments with your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) can help you streamline the hiring process and reduce time to hire. Nearly all companies are using some kind of ATS during the recruitment process. Over 98% of Fortune 500 companies use an ATS. As a recruiter, […]

Chris Platts 12 January 2022 6 min
Recruitment Advice

How to Run Better Intake Meetings (For Recruiters)

What is an Intake Meeting?  The intake meeting marks the beginning of the hiring process. It’s when the recruiter meets with the hiring manager to discuss the role and the skills needed to do the job. It’s your opportunity to find out what kind of candidate the manager is looking for. An intake meeting is […]

Chris Platts 30 November 2021 6 min
Recruitment Advice

Recruiting Trends: Top 5 Trends You Need to Know for 2022

If someone had told you this is the way 2020-2021 would pan out, you wouldn’t have believed them. Dramatic changes in business operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic mean that organisations need to be prepared for further changes in 2022. It has become apparent that organisations with the ability to adapt under pressure are the […]

Chris Platts 25 November 2021 4 min
Recruitment Advice

High volume hiring: 9 ways to improve your process

Update November 2021: The market is changing as we emerge from the pandemic, and high volume hiring has never been more important or more difficult than it is today. As such we’ve reviewed our suggestions and tweaked our list to give you the very latest high volume hiring tips. Are you hiring lots of people […]

Chris Platts 23 November 2021 8 min
Recruitment Advice

Best Recruiting Books 2024: 19 You Need To Read

Our best recruiting books 2024 list compiles our 19 favourite books for recruiters and talent acquisition professionals to read this year. When I started my career in recruitment in 2005, there wasn’t much content out there for recruiters beyond a few classic sales books and a handful of blogs. It was about learning by doing, […]

Chris Platts 19 August 2021 11 min
Recruitment Advice

Warehouse Recruiting: 5 tips for hiring warehouse workers

Hiring warehouse workers can be a gruelling task. Finding the right applicants for the right warehouse jobs can be a challenge, so what is the best way to go about it? Some of the best advice that we’ve heard for hiring warehouse workers is to be transparent about the skills needed, be clear on the […]

Chris Platts 9 August 2021 4 min