There has been a lot of talk recently about unicorn candidates and their importance in working teams. But what is a unicorn candidate, and why does your company need one? With businesses of all kinds facing increased…

Hiring across the UK has almost halved in the last year as Covid-19 impacted recruitment, with the number of new vacancies added in June down 49% when compared to the same time last year, according to the…

A lack of talented candidates happens to the best of us. It happens to the brightest companies and the best recruiting teams. But if your company struggled through its most recent round of recruiting, it might be…

The Avengers have been saving the planet since the 1960s and not long after the recruitment industry started doing the same. They have gone through many incarnations, seen members come and go, transformed from good to bad,…

You’ve been trying to increase the number of women (or men, depending on your industry) in the office. You’ve assessed the company culture, diversity objectives, and even the types of positions to account for the difference… but…

“Our industry goes away if organizations quit recruiting from the outside, yet internal promotions are critical to our success. It is virtually impossible to consistently recruit top talent to an organization that fails to promote from within.”…

As recruiters we spend a lot of time on talent attraction, looking at ways we can encourage the best and the brightest to come and work for us. Each new role has a hiring manager brief and…

Whilst the recent increases in job creation are a good sign for the economy, for businesses they carry two challenges for successful workforce planning – firstly how to acquire the new skills that they need, and secondly…

I recently joined Broadbean, and a number of senior HR and Talent practitioners, at the second day of the Cornerstone Convergence event, a conference exploring the changing landscape of work and talent management, and technology’s role in enabling…

In my last blog I looked at some of the key messages from the latest conference hosted by the Forum for In-House Recruitment Managers. The closing session looked at the results in their latest membership survey, always a good…

Lack of Reliable Data In order to make a change in behavior among your recruitment team, to make strategic decisions, you need dependable information. Recently, in Walking the Tightrope of Big Data, I explained: “While the gut…

Vacancies up 54% across the UK during the first week of June Permanent jobs jump 51% Demand for education staff up 75% during the week schools reopened Businesses across the country showed positive signs of resilience in…