Building and nurturing a talent pool is one of the most effective ways to support a business’s long term growth plans. When managed well, this approach can help businesses hire top quality talent faster and more cheaply than a reactive recruitment model. However, despite its obvious benefits, many organisations struggle with making talent pooling a… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Resourcing
7 Steps You Should Follow When Implementing a Recruitment Data Strategy
Despite popular belief, internal recruitment teams don’t tend to suffer from a shortage of data. From payroll insights to candidate source information; there’s a great deal of insight that can be gleaned from standard activities to help benchmark your function and inform business decisions. However, without understanding what data you actually need to collect, interpret… Read more »
6 Things to Consider When Preparing for Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting
Addressing workplace equality can significantly benefit an organisation’s culture and reputation. It ensures talent is supported and helps businesses achieve their organisational objectives. And whilst diversity headlines have largely been dominated by the Gender Pay Gap over the last couple of years, we’re now moving into the age of ethnicity pay gap reporting. The consultation… Read more »
5 Ways to Build a Successful Employer Brand That Truly Reflects Your EVP
A well-executed employee value proposition (EVP) is reported to decrease staff turnover by 69%. So how do you build an impactful EVP and Employer Brand that will elevate your employee retention efforts, as well as engage and attract prospective talent? (Hint: You do it exactly in that order). Everyone says their business is going through… Read more »
5 HR Processes You Can Improve With the Use of HR Automation Tools
The HR department is responsible for the security, management and transfer of high-compliance employee data. Many of the processes managed by HR are time-consuming and require the highest attention to detail and utmost accuracy. Afterall, no matter what process, one-single piece of inaccurate information could mean the difference in an employee getting paid or not,… Read more »
5 Simple Steps to Help Recruitment Operate Like Marketing
Businesses are increasingly embracing the concept that recruiters should be thinking and behaving more like marketers. After all, there are numerous parallels with selling products/services and selling job opportunities/employers. However, there is one stark difference; marketing generally benefits from relevant training and funding, whereas recruitment often does not. This enables marketing functions to effectively promote… Read more »
4 Questions to Ask Yourself When Structuring Your Sourcing Team
Structuring your sourcing team in the most effective way has never been more important than in today’s candidate-driven market, where recruitment has turned into a sport of ‘who can win the best talent, the quickest’. And whilst speed and quality are obviously clear drivers, resourcing teams continue to be pushed to make these top-quality hires… Read more »
7 Questions Recruitment Leaders Must Ask Themselves Before They Define an Onboarding Strategy
With poor onboarding repeatedly held responsible for why employees resign in their first year, we challenged senior Resourcing and HR leaders from our Think Tank community to shed some light on best practice onboarding. Collectively, we’ve prepared seven questions (and answers!) that you should ask yourself before you define your strategy. This Resourcing Think Tank,… Read more »
Coffee with… Claire Gray, European Talent Manager @ Canon Europe ☕
Working for an organisation with a true sense of ‘purpose’ can be incredibly empowering; particularly when working in an HR role. For European Talent Manager, Claire Gray, buying into Canon’s philosophy of ‘Kyosei’ is so important because it helps unite the business with a shared common ground. Ahead of the Resourcing Think Tank that Claire’s… Read more »
Five Questions you shouldn’t ask a Candidate during a Job Interview
When it comes to conducting job interviews, there are a handful of questions you simply shouldn’t ask the candidates in front of you. Whether it’s because your words could be misconstrued or cause offence, sometimes you need to look for a way around a certain question if you want to get to know your candidate… Read more »
RTT – GDPR as a Candidate Opportunity
Whilst the message surrounding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been associated with legal compliance and risk mitigation, we believe that, viewed through a slightly more positive lens, employers can use the change to create competitive advantage in their quest to attract and retain the very best and inclusive talent. These are the thoughts… Read more »
RTT – High Volume Recruitment: Assessment Methods and Candidate Experience
Delivering a poor candidate experience is a surefire way to damage your brand. And with 72% of candidates sharing negative feedback online or with a peer, it’s never been more important to get this part of the recruitment process right. For businesses dealing with high volume recruitment, the emphasis placed on strengthening the candidate experience is… Read more »
HRLTT – Automation and its Impact on HR
Over the past decade we’ve experienced tremendous advancements in the field of technology, and as such, various HR processes and activities can be completed much faster and more accurately than ever before. With the rise of automation, robotics and artificial intelligence, innovators in our sector continue to truly push the boundaries of what’s possible. However, as… Read more »
RTT – Defining an Effective Onboarding Strategy
Whether inducting a new hire or promoting from within the organisation, employee onboarding is one of the most critical and difficult steps in the employee engagement process. With 1 out of every 25 employees leaving their jobs due to poor onboarding and with 20% turnover within the first 45 days of employment, it’s evident that… Read more »
Recruitment Transformation: Getting it Wrong is just too Big a Risk…
There are a couple of trends I have seen lately in the Talent Acquisition / Recruitment / Resourcing change and transformation world and to be honest they worry me! I think most people now accept that the act of bringing the right people in to your business at the right time is probably THE most… Read more »
Best Reward Talent at the Time VS. Best Reward Talent in the Market
We’ve all been there, whether you’re an internal/external recruiter or a hiring manager, these questions always rise to the surface during an interview process: Can you find more candidates to use as a benchmark against the candidates we’ve already interviewed at final stage ? Will we attract better talent if we advertise the job again… Read more »
Why Hiring for Experience is Insane!
Albert Einstein defined insanity as: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Taking his lead from Einstein’s definition in his recent DisruptHR talk, Why Hiring For Experience Is Insane, Tom Quayle, President of The Chemistry Group Inc, explained why experience is the least reliable predictor of behaviour and used it to… Read more »
My HR Director does not want Accurate Recruitment Data, Reporting or Analytics!
“The HR Director does not want accurate data and reporting in case they don’t like the answers…” “We know our current data is really poor but we don’t know where to start…” “Our head is in the sand…” These are just three snippets from recent conversations I’ve had with Talent Acquisition professionals working for FTSE… Read more »
Everything you need to know about the Apprenticeship Levy
Following a recent Resourcing Think Tank titled ‘Responding to the Apprenticeship Levy’, we wanted to provide a simple resource to answer all your questions around what the Levy actually means. Kate Temple-Brown, Apprenticeship Levy consultant and enthusiast, addresses the key headlines of the Levy below: Apprenticeship Levy – the background From April 2017 a new tax is being… Read more »
RTT – I know you’re not… but is the Government ready for the Apprenticeship Levy?
In spring this year the way the government funds apprenticeships will be changing. From 6th April we will see the introduction of an Apprenticeship Levy that requires UK organisations with a ‘pay bill’ of over £3m a year to invest in apprenticeship schemes. For many businesses, offering apprenticeship schemes is new territory and will require… Read more »
RTT – Strategic Workforce Planning and Forecasting
In times of unprecedented change, many organisations struggle to adequately balance supply and demand when it comes to their workforce. Once the preserve of the management consultancies and professional services organisations, the need for solid insight that supports better resource planning decisions (in a function already flooded with data) is now routinely sought by HR… Read more »
Recruiting Redefined: How Marketing and Sales Changed the Game
In today’s highly competitive field of recruitment, landing the best available talent requires organisations to rethink their resourcing strategies. In recent decades recruiting has undergone a paradigm shift. Traditionally, top organisations outsourced their recruitment work to external agencies. Yet as the demand for skilled employees increased and unemployment decreased, organisations began bringing their recruitment processes in-house. Human… Read more »
RTT – Using Technology to Enhance Candidate Engagement and Experience
Candidate experience seems to be on everyone’s agenda. Companies are beginning to join the dots and understand the wider implications that an applicant’s experience can have on their brand. One American airline calculated that their rejected applicants spent over $40m a year on flights. They started to give rejected candidates $10 vouchers off their next… Read more »
RTT – Video and the Recruitment Lifecycle: A Tool to Attract, Engage and Select
Over the last five years, using video for interviewing and as a candidate engagement tool has become widely used within the recruitment process across an ever-growing range of industries. In addition, its use has expanded far into the employee lifecycle. This Resourcing Think Tank looked at how we can ensure it becomes an intuitive part of… Read more »
RTT – Is your Selection Process fit for Purpose?
An organisation’s selection process provides a valuable window to assess the potential value a candidate can offer. It’s therefore important to make sure that you understand the attributes of a good hire and that the screening tools you use are helping recruit these individuals. Measuring the potential impact they have on the business’s bottom line… Read more »