Category Archive For "Company focus"
Using video doesn’t mean you are remote
In my opinion, we still have a mental-hurdle to jump when it comes to the idea of using live video streaming to establish meaningful business relationships, and yet, we use it to such great effect in our personal lives. Perhaps the commonly used phrase, remote access, still resonates in our subconscious when we think about …
How to create a culture that attracts AND retains
The culture of an organisation has become a competitive advantage for not only attracting top talent but retaining it too. But, in today’s labour market, half of the world’s future workforce – millennials – are open to the idea of a new job opportunity and 38% expect to move on from their current employer within …
8 Tips to keep your staff turnover looking healthy
There are no two ways about it, losing staff is bad for business and it’s estimated to cost organisations between 140-200% of an employee’s salary to replace someone when they leave. It’s not just the cost either, losing personnel ultimately reduces the knowledge base within your business, which can have a knock-on effect on productivity, …
Workplace environments: where they were, are and will be
The way we work has changed dramatically in recent decades, in no small part due to the technological revolution we’re living through, but also thanks to shifts in cultural and societal beliefs. This is a continually evolving process, and it affects not only the offices we work in themselves but the culture they promote and …
6 Tips to build a scalable Recruitment Team
Your recruitment team is responsible for strengthening your business by securing top-class talent. We’ve put together 6 tips for creating a scalable and successful team to do just that. Any growing business will reach a point where having one person responsible for all recruitment simply no longer cuts the mustard, and that’s where a recruitment …
Job Descriptions + Employer Branding = Recruitment Success
Job descriptions are one of the most important tools in a recruiter’s box. Get them right and you find a flurry of applications in your inbox, get them wrong and you watch a tumbleweed pass by. Want more of the former and less of the latter? The role of a job description Job descriptions are …
Aligning Recruitment Tools with TA strategy
Are your recruiting tools delivering ROI? In these series of blogs in partnership with Snap.hr, I’m exploring a number of topics that should be on every in-house talent acquisition (TA) and recruitment teams’ agenda in 2019. Following on from last week’s subject of the partner ecosystem, this week I’m focusing on assessing TA and recruitment …
Automation Logic partnering with Snap.hr
Tell us a little about yourself I (Fazan Habib) have been at Automation Logic for just over two and a half years. My background is in IT and overall technology recruitment. I’m passionate about recruitment, not just in terms of sourcing and meeting hiring targets but also trying to continuously improve the inhouse recruitment eco …
Why do I need a Partner Ecosystem?
Change is the only constant The notion that you would have to rely solely on a preferred supplier list (PSL) of recruitment agencies was significantly challenged by LinkedIn; as Maury Hanigan wrote in her article “data that was previously stored in their private databases became publicly available, diminishing the need for headhunters”. This process of …
{Between brackets with… Mario Behrendt, Head of Engineering, tails.com}
Dear cat-lovers, you might want to sit this one out as our new interview focuses on a very dog-centric startup. tails.com was founded in 2014 by a team including James Davidson and Graham Bosher, who both hail from other successful start-ups including Innocent Drinks and Graze.com, respectively. The founders wanted to provide personalised dog food …