The EWS View: Top Talent Trends For 2024
It’s a challenging time to be a recruiter. 2023 has seen the post-pandemic landscape continue to shift, with macroeconomic pressures mounting, new trends emerging and an increasingly precarious relationship between talent supply and demand. The only absolute certainty is that there is no going back to the way things were pre-pandemic. The old normal is […]
Is Automated Hiring Making It Too Easy for Candidates to Dislike You?
With every human interaction you remove from the hiring process, you’re creating a new potential pitfall for your candidate experience.
Why Your Job Descriptions Could Be Harming Your Hiring Prospects
If you want to engage candidates motivated to excel in a role, not just do the job, it’s time to rethink the way you approach your job descriptions.
Talent Pipelining 101: What You Need to Know and Why You Need to Know it Now
In the daily whirl of scarce talent, stretched resources, efficiency drives and information overload, switched-on recruiters are realising the benefits of playing the long game.
Do employers really care about employer branding?
If talent professionals are truly committed to employer branding, why do they spend so little money on it?
Goodbye Job Description. Hello Success Profile.
Follow our example and rewrite your job descriptions to work harder, say more with less and diversify your candidate pool.
Is Your Talent Shortage Actually Talent Shortsightedness?
We’ve got some positive news for far-sighted recruiters in sectors with systemic skill gaps. A new report suggests most workers globally are interested in working in a different country.
Are You Taking Employee Referral Seriously Yet?
If quality of hire is your top recruiting priority, you need to start giving employee referrals the respect and attention they deserve.
Are Video CVs a Good Thing for Employers?
For many large employers, candidate videos are already an integral part of the hiring process. Video interviews are relatively commonplace (and set to become more so with the advent of predictive analytics offering automated screening). But is there a role for video at the first stage of selection?
5 Employers who are Winning at Candidate Experience
This summer, we wrote about the most common mistakes made by recruiting teams when engaging candidates. That was the downside. Now it’s time to even things up by revealing the employers getting their candidate experience absolutely right.
