The real-time methods and techniques that will help you win top talent
It’s time for recruiters to embrace programmatic advertising, the automation of advertising, to maximise engagement with new talent. Josbite, Indeed, Monster, Total Jobs, Fish4 – the list of job board sites goes on and on. So for anyone seeking out the next step in their career path, there’s certainly no shortage of places to look. […]
Millennials and boomers – a workplace match made in heaven?
Similarities and differences in generations may be key to economic and business success, says Nick Gold, CEO of Jobsite. Millennials are no longer the new kids on the workplace block. With many now entering their mid-30s, they make up the largest portion of the workforce and hold around 20% of leadership positions. Definitively the generation […]
Coping with a post-truth recruitment era
For as long as CVs dominate the first stages of a hiring exercise, we’ll continue to be in a post-truth recruitment era. If there was ever a single document responsible for misinformation and recruiting missteps, it has to be the CV. Think about it. When you’re recruiting at scale, how do you find the time […]
Book review: Good People: The Only Leadership Decision That Really Matters by Anthony Tjan
HRZone has a range of books available for review. If you would like to receive one of our business books, free of charge, please contact the editor on editor at hrzone dot com and we can send you a list of what’s available. In return, we ask for a 400-700 word review of the book, […]
Talent retention: the vital few and trivial many
Talent retention implies that a company actually knows who their ‘talent’ is. One of the most robust ways of retaining talent is to identify who your ‘vital few’ are, and retain them – something very few executives can do with confidence. Approaching retention according to your vital few is hard and takes resources, but what’s the […]
Can we make hiring great again?
Despite the fact that technology has invaded and simplified almost every single aspect of our life (think of Lyft, Amazon or Google), applying for a job seems to remain the same old boring experience. Candidates scroll down never ending pages of job adverts. They read disembodied company descriptions. They look at lists of random tasks […]
“When I was told that I would never walk or talk again it put fire in my belly.”
In the BBC 2 series Employable Me, a programme that follows people with disabilities as they attempt to find work, Speakers Corner opens up a public speaking career for disabled businessman Andy Ibbott. Below, HRZone speaks to Andy about his inspirational journey to recovery and reemployment, and with Managing Director of Speakers Corner Nick Gold […]
How to achieve diversity through fair assessment
Aspiring to achieve a diverse workforce, which reflects the diversity of the population, is a worthy goal. However, positively discriminating by recruiting individuals from selected groups to achieve diversity targets is illegal and unfair. Instead, today’s employers should aim to attract a diverse range of applicants and ensure that every person has an equal chance […]
Why resourcing is everyone’s business
One could be forgiven for thinking that managers (or indeed anyone else in the organisation) have practically no part at all to play in resourcing. Strategic workforce planning, social recruitment, AI, impactful job ads, powerful metrics and outsourcing, assessment methods all seem to be owned by HR. Of course, it isn’t really like that and […]
Why you should be offering returnships to career-breakers – and how to get started
If you haven’t heard of a returnship, you are not alone. Totaljobs’ latest survey results found that a staggering 85% of employers aren’t aware of back-to-work schemes, which is rather surprising given the positive response from employees. Of the candidates we spoke to, three in four revealed they would consider a returnship programme after a […]
Talent attraction: four ways to ensure you’re being inclusive
To improve diversity, every organisation needs a fair selection process, in which every applicant has an equal chance to do their best. However, if you want to take a more strategic approach to diversity and inclusion, you’ll need to start way before the selection stage, with talent planning and attraction. Most employers recruit tactically rather […]
Is bias holding back effective recruitment and training?
We all like to believe that we are tolerant and open-minded people, but to what extent do we let bias, both conscious and unconscious, get in the way of our recruitment decisions? We’ve come a long way from the prejudice of the past, but there is still a way to go. The latest market research […]
‘Hire’ ambitions: recruitment in the modern world
If you believe what you read, in a few short years recruiters will be replaced by algorithms that will do all this work for us. However, with the emphasis moving towards a more flexible and adaptable approach, should we actually be worried? Well, I’m not convinced enough to start running for the hills just yet! […]
How can offering quality work experience attract top talent?
David Docherty, CEO of the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) and Chairman of Placer, explains how a quality work experience offer can help attract top graduate talent. The Government’s new Industrial Strategy requires a flow of high-quality graduates to power the economy. And, crucially, points to the need to increase opportunity for all […]
Are you as good as your job ads?
HRs are tasked at attracting the best brains, talent and skill to ensure their organisation can compete against the finest companies in the world. However, are HRs in danger of overselling a role to entice top talent? It’s a common problem, a company’s board demand top talent to fulfil its positions and naturally assign their […]
Don’t go with your gut: overcoming unconscious bias in hiring decisions
Years ago, a friend of mine, Helen, went for a job interview. It was for a Swiss arts and cultural organisation, and Helen was half Swiss and could speak German reasonably well. She got the job. But she realised that the job wasn’t for her (it didn’t really match her interests), and she told the […]
How Emotional Intelligence improves the recruitment process
Emotional Intelligence (EI) provides a proven practical and powerful framework for individual, team and leadership development. But how can you use the benefits of EI within your recruitment process and how does it add value when assessing and selecting potential employees and leaders. Occupational psychologists have been studying the science of effective recruitment and selection […]
How has tech recruiting adapted to the modern day?
Tech is one of the fastest-moving sectors around: for that reason, tech is often seen as a bellwether for other industries, and for good reason. Think of all the changes the tech sector has been through: fifty years ago, software engineers were scarce, whereas today, according to Stack Overflow’s Developer Ecosystem Report, they account for […]
Why hiring for cultural fit is holding back your company
Many organisations believe in hiring for cultural fit, following a methodology and thought process where ‘fit’ relates to a strong alignment to the company values and where an employee can come in and work collaboratively. For these organisations, cultural fit works just fine. But ‘fit’ also has a connotation to it, implying that somebody should […]
Social media recruitment starts with employee advocates
We live in a world where transparency and trust are a currency, and where a positive company culture means everything to prospective jobseekers. As such, trying to portray the image of a nice workplace environment when you don’t actually have one doesn’t only manifest itself in the quality of candidates you attract, it also doesn’t […]