Author: talentspa

Why you should care about employer branding?

The search for the best talent is an ongoing battle for most businesses, with leaders having to up their game and employ new tactics when it comes to attracting and acquiring the best candidates. Companies need to proactively source, engage and retain...

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5 lies poor recruiters tell candidates

What’s the most important asset to your company? Your brand? Your product or service? Your office location? Think again. It’s your staff. Having a highly-engaged team who genuinely cares about your business is the biggest asset your company can have....

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How to maximise your recruitment budget

There comes a time in every HR manager’s life when matching what a business needs with what they can afford seems like an unattainable task. According to LinkedIn’s, 2017 Global Staffing Trends Report, “more than half of staffing industry leaders...

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The top 5 trends affecting recruitment right now

‘To truly influence business decisions, you need to understand where the industry is going’. The recruitment industry has experienced an interesting start to 2017, with an increased focus on maximising talent analytics and leveraging untapped hiring...

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5 keys to successful hiring through job boards

As companies have evolved from simply recruiting through traditional agencies to hiring from online job boards, the HR manager’s role has become increasingly challenging. Not only do they need to be sure that they are targeting the right destinations...

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The Cost of Making a Bad Hire

Think you know the true costs of a bad hire? A good hire is an employee who provides an excellent ROI once hired. In the corporate world, these ‘superstar employees’ are estimated to be four times as productive as average workers, and research has...

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Improving the Quality of New Hires

“WE’RE HIRING!” Great news! Your business is expanding! Sadly, the process of filling a position is rarely as straight forward as identifying that you need someone in the first place. How many times have you drafted a job description, posted the job...

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Looking Back at How Brexit Affected Recruitment

Brexit, Brexit, Brexit It’s no surprise that the UK’s vote to leave the EU in June 2016 casted a cloud of uncertainty over the recruitment industry. However, eight months on, it appears that many of the gloomy predictions were merely a speculation....

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Looking to Recruit? 5 Start-up Recruitment Tips

As founders of a start-up, you will inevitably reach a stage where your team needs to grow, in order to meet the demands of your expanding business. But how do you go about building that winning team? A good place to start is to first identify your...

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