5 Big Recruitment Headaches (and how to overcome them)
Skilled staff are an organisation's most important resource. Companies can only increase turnover, maximise ROI and compete successfully in the market by putting people with the right skills in the right jobs. It's quickly apparent that HR departments have a key role in this: after all this is where candidates are selected, new people are hired and talent is managed. Recruiters face huge challenges on a daily basis
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Interviews: How to overcome nerves
Job interviews are normally more about candidates being nervous. But interviewers may also have to deal with moments of insecurity, for example when they are relatively inexperienced at interviewing and the candidate turns out to be a difficult character. In this case, three things are crucial: good interview preparation, remaining objective about the applicant's behaviour and a lot of patience.
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Recruitment: Avoiding tunnel vision in the selection process
Every company wants to find the best people. Accurate job profiles form the basis for this. But too many specific requirements may mean that valuable staff evade you. Here you can find out when it's worth taking a closer look.
Discrimination on grounds of an applicant's ethnic origin, sex, religion, ideology, disability, age or sexual orientation is not allowed in the selection process and is highly unprofessional.
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Stop Doing These 4 Things If You Want Great Talent
You’re not the only one burned out by the war for talent. Across the world, talent acquisition leaders are fed up with arrogant applicants, dilapidated recruiting technology and hesitant hiring managers with unrealistic candidate expectations.
Something’s got to give, and for many of us, it’s our sanity.
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Professional performance reviews are more important than ever
The importance of employee appraisals and performance reviews in HR is nothing new. But, in many cases the last comprehensive performance review with the boss may well have been several years ago.
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Say This, Not That: Communicating Better with Hiring Managers
The recruiter/hiring manager relationship: It’s complicated. You need each other, you want to do right by each other — but you don’t understand each other. And this breakdown in communication is what leads to feelings of frustration on both sides, drives a wedge between the two of you and, ultimately, brings you further from your ultimate (shared) goal: matching the right candidates with the right jobs.
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How to improve your 'quality of hire': 4 tips for a successful recruitment process
A rehashed job ad and a few interviews are simply not enough to fill a company vacancy successfully. After all the new hire should bring specific know-how to the company, fit into the team and stay with the organisation for as long as possible. This entails more than just careful screening of the applications you receive. Successful recruitment starts with positioning your employer brand. It also requires an accurate job and candidate profile
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HR Glossary: Keywords
Keywords are words and phrases entered in the search fields of search engines by internet users - with the aim of finding exactly the information required. The more exact the chosen search string is, the more relevant the search results are expected to be.
For recruiters and HR professionals, keywords are important for optimising
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The whys and wherefores: Revealing interview questions
Interviewing is a basic skill required of any HR professional. Since an interview is definitely not a cosy chat for promoting mutual understanding, as a rule it is carefully planned. After all you don't want to talk to the applicant about trivia, but ascertain whether it's worth your company investing in this person. Although interviewing is an integral part of the job, recruiters are still sometimes faced with unpleasant errors of judgement, which only become apparent
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The Candidate Persona: How to attract the right candidates
Employers often give little thought to what applicants are really interested in, what they expect or even what puts them off. Or what effect a clear idea of the ideal candidate has on their recruitment success. But the candidate personas should be top of mind when creating social recruitment messages, reaching out in emails and creating job advertisements.
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