Top 4 Ways Recruiters Will Find Talent In 2016
Where will you find the talent you need in 2016? We’ve identified the top four areas we believe you should focus on to ensure success.
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Get easy access to important candidate information
In a time of talent shortage, recruiters need to maximise their candidate’s pipeline. However the bigger the pipeline, the more time consuming accessing and checking all candidate’s information will be. Well, not necessarily!
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The Perfect Time Manager: 5 tips for efficient recruitment
As a recruiter, you are no longer responsible for just performing administrative work: you also have to make strategic decisions to drive your company forward. Why? Because HR looks after the company's most important resource - its employees - and in doing so, assumes a key role in the organisation. So how can you possibly find the time to accomplish everything you need to do?
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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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Employee Engagement: What Not to Do
It’s no secret that a more engaged workforce is a more successful and productive workforce. Still, promoting and increasing employee engagement can be one of the trickiest goals for many organisations to accomplish.
Here are some common mistakes employers make that can be harmful to employee engagement.
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HR Glossary: Corporate Culture
Corporate culture refers to specific organisational norms, values and attitudes shared by all members of the organisation. It has an impact on any activities the organisation undertakes, as well as on the behaviour of members of the organisation itself (managers & staff).
Corporate culture can be divided into two levels: values, norms and attitudes belonging to the underlying structure (key assumptions);
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Low performers: Can laziness be punished?
It costs time, money and nerves: employees who perform below average, and no longer want to work, or do not want to work as hard as they actually could. But such so-called 'low performers' are difficult to get rid of - much to the annoyance of many companies because lazy workers can significantly disrupt operations and cause commercial loss. "Nevertheless 'can't be bothered' behaviour can have labour law implications"
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New in our blog: HR Glossary at a glance
Candidate experience, onboarding, war for talent, … Getting to grips with recruitment and HR jargon is not always easy, even for experienced HR professionals. We have explained the most important terms for you.
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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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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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