Students: How to Find Part-Time Work
Budgeting as a student isn’t easy. The cost of rent, bills and food quickly stack up – and that’s before we even think about socialising! While a student loan might be able to take the brunt of the expense, this only goes so far and university-goers are increasingly looking for part-time work to ease the […]
How People Find a Job
Pursuing your next career venture can provoke conflicting emotions: apprehension, excitement, trumspringa … but at least there’s no doubt over how you’re going to find your next role. Well, there wasn’t, but the deluge of job boards, agencies and InMail means you’re now leading the job hunt with all the tact of an inexperienced sherpa. We were curious […]
Contingency vs. Retained Recruitment: Which is Better?
If you’re looking for a recruitment agency to help you hire new talent, then there’s a question that may well be on your mind. What is the difference between contingency recruitment and retained recruitment, and which is better for you? The answer is surprisingly simple – so let us explain … To someone who isn’t from a recruitment background, […]
What is the cost of making a bad hire?
Each day, businesses around the world welcome new members of staff in the hope that they will contribute positively and meaningfully to their future. According to Oxford Economics and Unum, the average cost of taking on an employee (on a salary of £25k) is £30,165. This incorporates an average spend of £5,433 on recruitment and absorbing the loss […]
5 Best Apps for Your Life As a Recruiter
Need to recruit on-the-go? Then an app may just be the answer. With smartphones and tablets now ubiquitous, mobile recruiting has become par for the course when it comes to filling job vacancies. Fortunately for recruiters, there are a whole host of apps available to make things a little easier. Read on to learn about our top […]
Standing vs. Sitting: Which is Better?
There are now countless studies on how sitting for such long periods is slowly ‘killing you’ and how we should all treat it as a serious health threat. Yet people who are standing up everyday are left with aches in their muscles, pains in their joints and spinal problems. So either sitting OR standing for […]
SSI Teesside Plant: What Next for Workers?
After the shock announcement on Monday that the SSI steel plant in Redcar is closing down, leaving 1,700 people without a job, anxious voices from thousands of families are wondering what’s next for their future. Some workers will have been at the plant since leaving school, whilst others relied on it as a local saviour of their […]
Social Media Recruitment: Hiring Strategies
Social media recruitment – something that is super-familiar to us all as recruitment and HR professionals, right? Not always. Even if you grew up in the digital age, it can be tough to get a handle on how these powerful tools can be used to our advantage. There’s far more to it than just searching […]
Bad Hires: How to Tell a Maverick From a Muppet
In this article we’re going to investigate a question that plagues every HR department. How can hiring managers differentiate between Tom Cruise’s character in Top Gun and everyone’s favourite celebrity amphibian? Ok, perhaps not. But still, we’ve gone all-out this time to help you spot candidates’ red flags any way you can. What is a bad hire? We […]
Successful People: Common Traits
Ultimately, our goal as human beings, is to be successful. Whether it’s success in the form of wealth, happiness or family life, we all strive for an ‘ideal’. The great thing about success is that it’s never too late to find it and we can all condition ourselves to be successful, through persistence and other […]