5 recruitment mistakes you could be making (and how to avoid them) In today’s job market, candidates hold more power than ever before. For recruiters, this means more pressure to impress job hunters and make the hire quickly and efficiently. But are you doing everything you possibly can to stand-out from the competition and recruit

  Brexit: Could Uncertainty Risk Jobs & Investment? As the uncertainty of Brexit lingers on, the UK risks losing jobs and investment (warns Britains five biggest business lobby groups). In a letter issued to Brexit Secretary David Davis, the groups state that “time is running out”. The other lobby groups backing the letter are the

Flat Fee Recruitment – Is It Right for You? We do everything online now, from shopping for groceries, to banking and booking holidays. Recruiting the ideal candidate with our Flat Fee Recruitment Model is no different. The Job Market has changed drastically, and has consequently made way for more cost effective recruitment strategies. How Does

As arguments for and against Brexit are gaining pace ahead of the national EU Referendum on June 23rd 2016, consideration needs to be given to UK employers, the effect on them, and the knock on effect on UK Human Resources Departments and the Recruitment Industry. Whichever way the EU referendum goes, it will have consequences

Recruitment, and how we do it, has undergone a seismic shift over the last 15 years. The lumbering dinosaurs of Recruitment Agencies no longer really have a safe home. Instead as the employment market has shifted in to the Digital Age, we need a different plan, one that works better in the 21st Century: Enter

Job Boards. The Simplest and most straight-forward recruitment strategy, yes? Well, not quite. They are tempting, and an easy Go To Recruitment starting point, but knowing how to utilise them to your advantage can be a tall order. This is a HR Manager’s Guide to Job Board Advertising, and how to get it right. Business

If you pay peanuts, you’re going to get monkeys, goes a famous quotation normally trotted out for salaries. It applies to recruitment too, which is after all a part of ‘paying’ for an employee. But is it really true? Why are there so many cheap recruitment options on the market if they don’t work? Looking

It’s a relationship fraught with angst, frustration and grief, far too often, when in reality it needs to come down to active collaboration: Hiring Managers and Recruitment Agencies need to heed some important points for managing the relationship between them, before working together to achieve their goal. Net Recruit can’t stress this enough – when

Choosing the best recruitment agency for you can be a minefield. Whether you’re an employer looking to fill a raft of graduate positions, a small firm looking to recruit your next Mr or Mrs Reliable, or a candidate on the hunt, knowing how to choose the right recruitment agency for you is going to be

It could be said that the problem with recruitment marketing is that it is a specialism that any Joe Bloggs thinks they can do. Generalists are all too willing, often fuelled by fears of expense, to believe anyone can do it. Whilst this may work on some level – you’ll get someone to fill your

One of the best ways for those in charge of recruitment marketing is to attend the best available recruitment conferences. There are so many reasons why you should attend conferences, here are but a few: The amount of valuable knowledge to be gained from the talks and seminars, which can then be put into practice

Why Your Voice Matters – Make It Count You may be part of the passive generation when it comes to politics, but here’s an issue where your voice counts. The Government has released an Open Consultation that affects anyone in the Recruitment market: from employers, recruitment consultants to employees and candidates. If you’re in the