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Marie Evart
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What Makes a Good Job Application Form? 5 Practical Tips for Recruiters
An application form is a form that candidates fill in to apply for a position. Learn how to build them effectively.
How To Improve Staff Morale: 8 Killer Ideas
As trust and enthusiasm for the job dwindles, team members can become bored in their role and disillusioned with you as an employer. Unsurprisingly, this has a massive impact on productivity and your company culture at large. Fortunately, it’s easy enough to turn things around. Need some pointers on how to improve staff morale in your office? Read on for everything you need to know to turn things around.
Gamification in Recruitment: When and How To Do It Right
Gamification is incredibly effective at evaluating candidates. What’s more, it keeps future employees engaged from the off and creates an enviable company culture. Still not sold on the idea of gamification. Our guide breaks down what you need to do to leverage gamification tools to your advantage.
How To Make Job Ads More Attractive
Struggling to secure the right candidates for vacant positions or finding it hard to entice the best talent away from your competitors? The job posts you’re putting out likely need some work. Wondering how to make job ads more attractive? Read on for all the information you’ll ever need.
How To Select and Use an Applicant Tracking System
Is your current hiring process too complex? Finding it hard to single out suitable candidates? An applicant tracking system (ATS) can transform talent acquisition and make life much easier for hiring teams. With an ATS, you unleash the power of automation, streamlining just about every point in the recruitment pipeline. Not sure how to use applicant tracking system software? Want to learn what benefits an ATS can bring to your organisation? We’ve got you covered.
How to Attract Retail Talent: Best Strategies
Ah, the eternal quest for attracting retail talent. It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack, but the needle occasionally moves and the haystack is on fire. Fun, right? In the world of retail, having a team that’s just as sharp as the creases on a well-pressed suit is crucial. So, let’s dive ...
Recruitment Process in Retail Industry
Finding the right talent for retail roles is rarely simple. All manner of factors make retail recruitment a headache for hiring teams. With so many retailers out there, securing candidates for entry-level positions can prove almost impossible at short notice. Competitive rates of pay can help, but you’ll probably need to rethink your retail recruitment strategy to give your business an edge over the competition.
High employee turnover rate: everything you need to know
Employee turnover rate is a useful success metric for any organisation. By calculating turnover rate, companies can quickly determine how well they are retaining their talent in a given time period. A high employee turnover rate is generally considered a cause for concern. Poor compensation, overworked employees, and bad management are just a few of the things that can contribute towards a rising turnover rate.
How To Calculate Employee Turnover
Once you’ve mastered employee turnover calculation, you’ll be able to use your findings to improve employee engagement, increase retention rates, and stamp out unnecessary expenditures. Not sure where to get started with calculating employee turnover? Read on for everything you need to know.
What is Employee Turnover and Why is It So Important?
What is employee turnover and what does it actually mean for an organisation? Turnover has always been a point of concern for companies, but it’s become even more contentious recently. While resignations and redundancies have driven turnover rates for years, the remote work revolution and talent shortages have sent rates soaring.
Candidate Relationship Management Guide
Candidate Relationship Management, or CRM, is one of the keys to successful modern recruitment, and it can also be greatly enabled with modern candidate relationship management systems that heavily automate your optimised hiring process. Candidate Relationship Management is a relatively new approach for HR professionals, but it's already being used heavily to achieve powerful results.
High Volume Hiring Complete Guide and Tools
Otherwise known as mass recruitment, high volume hiring can prove a minefield for smaller companies unprepared for the task at hand. When hiring at scale, the usual recruitment techniques can’t always be depended on. Fail to adapt your hiring processes and you’ll struggle to fill vacancies on time, if at all.
Collaborative Hiring: The Complete Guide
In an oversaturated employment market, businesses are starting to realise that traditional recruitment models are unfit for purpose. As well as being expensive, recruitment agencies rarely deliver the best fit for an advertised position. Even if you’re handling recruitment in-house, it’s not always easy for an overwhelmed hiring manager to identify the best fit from ...