Expert Recruitment Predictions 2023
From the great resignation to quiet quitting, over the past couple of years companies have been constantly innovating to continue attracting and retaining talent.
How To Improve Your CV
If you woke up this morning with a knot in your stomach, it might be time to evaluate your current position and ask yourself what it is you want from an employer; once you’ve done this, it’s time to update your CV and get ready for the job search.
I’m Leaving
Inevitably your best employee will leave. They’ll retire, get poached or get bored. So, if it happened today, what would you do? Scenario 1 – Frantically assigning multiple recruiters You may think that by engaging as many recruiters as you can you will get a quick result. Wrong! A contingency recruiter earns a fee only […]
Case Study: NPD Director – Sweden
Role overview: As the Head of Product Development you will have a strategically important role and work closely with the founders. You’ll have holistic ownership of the product development – from recipe creation and what technology to use to up-scaling and commercialisation of our products.
Case study: Sales manager – USA
Our client’s goal is to expand their business in the USA by targeting retailers such as Walmart, Costco, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Kruger, CVC amongst others with branded and white label products.
Case study: Brand Director – Spain
Co-lead Isleña Brand Strategy at a global scale along with the Global
Marketing & Business Strategy Director to deliver the business objectives. Isleña is The Beat of Ibiza due to its closeness to the music festivals, top DJs, and all kinds of music that perfectly represent the essence of our Mediterranean island.
Avoid These Recruiters
There are many recruiters that care deeply about their work and there are many recruitment firms that provide excellent, professional service. And yet we all know that the industry as a whole has a less-than-stellar reputation. In this email, you’ll find five types of recruiters who you should avoid.
McQuaig Behavioural Assessments
We’ve previously highlighted how we use McQuaig job surveys to help managers and stakeholders clearly and quickly define the behavioural requirements for any job at any level to create an internal benchmark for the role by establishing the type of behaviours you believe will assist a person in that job.
Candidate Engagement
I recently wrote an article on how you can effectively map out your talent pool based on your job specification and candidate blueprint. It’s now time to attract and engage candidates and if you are still relying on traditional recruitment strategies you are setting yourself up for failure.
It just didn’t work out
Are you hiring on skills and experience and firing on performance? It’s a well-known fact that most people hire people based on their skills and experience and fire on behaviours such as poor performance or not being the ‘‘right fit’’. When someone resigns, business owners will often use the term ‘‘it just didn’t work out’’ […]