HR Glossary: Headhunter
The term headhunter mostly refers to recruiters or HR consultants, who recruit professional staff and managers for companies – either as permanent employees or as freelancers. Placement through a headhunter is free of charge for the applicant. In the event of a successful placement, the headhunter receives a significant commission from the employing company.
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How to make use of the Candidate Journey in Recruiting
Learning more about why your candidates stick with your process or leave it can produce great results. While candidate journeys get more complex, companies need to give themselves the best chance to connect and nurture candidates.
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HR Glossary: Agile Recruitment
In practice, static plans are now very quickly becoming obsolete, due to an ever increasing number of external influences in today's digital world. Software developers have been very quick to recognise this: here the word 'agile' is used to describe special approaches designed to make processes more flexible, leaner and more efficient, in order to better concentrate on the end goals.
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Stay ahead of these 7 HR trends
A company’s most important asset is its people, and it is the job of human resources to take care of and manage that asset. As companies continue to battle over skilled workers and applicants, an HR department that loses its edge can lead to serious problems for the rest of the business.
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CareerBuilder at the In-House Recruitment Expo: Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Talent Acquisition
Spin back 20+ years and the role of in-house recruiter probably didn’t exist in most companies. Vacancies were likely to be routed through personnel and it was usually left to a junior member of that team to call third party agencies and register the hiring need, or to find the cheapest media deal and book an advert in the local, national or trade press. CVs and covering letters would have arrived by post
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Why Candidate Experience will be more vital than ever in 2016
It is no surprise to anyone involved in recruiting that the focus on candidate experience has come around as an agenda item the last few years.
Every time you turn around, a new article is talking about talent shortages, skill gaps, and challenging hiring issues. CareerBuilder’s research found that more than half of companies say it’s getting increasingly difficult
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HR Glossary: Job Advertisement
A job advertisement is a company internal or external announcement of a vacancy. It is the first step in a company's recruitment process.
A job advertisement includes the job title and a detailed description of the position. For HR professionals and recruiters, the job advert is also the first opportunity to present a positive employer brand
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How to Retain Top Performers Without Breaking the Bank
As the economy improves and hiring heats up, some employers fear losing their best workers to greener pastures. Your top performers may entertain offers with higher salaries than you can afford to offer, but luckily, not all retention strategies require a major financial investment. Here are some cost-effective ways for improving retention.
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Everything will be better in the New Year
Have you ever asked yourself why we regularly undertake to change things in January? Why don't we make new resolutions on a sunny day in July? Probably because most people need closure of some kind to give them room for new things. "The beginning is an end" is how the German philosopher and author Manfred Hinrich put it. In a few days, at the turn of the year
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HR Glossary: Zero-Based Bonus
In addition to an agreed monthly fixed salary, some companies offer their employees an additional bonus that is paid on an annual or quarterly basis. In this way, employees can share in the company's success or be rewarded for reaching previously agreed goals. A bonus programme should ensure that a company makes higher payments in times of growth rather than in weaker years
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