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Ever sent someone a considered email and received nothing back? Irritating, isn’t it? Now imagine the email was an application for a job and you were waiting to find out whether somebody wanted to speak to you. Candidate engagement can sound like a piece of recruitment jargon. Much of it is simply keeping people informed, doing… Read More
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I recruit for a living, but I do not believe every business needs an agency for every job. If you can attract, assess and hire the right person yourself, good. That is the result you wanted. Sometimes you need specialist knowledge, access to a different candidate market or simply enough time to give the job proper… Read More
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Getting to offer stage takes work. You have reviewed applications, found time to interview and decided somebody is worth bringing into the business. Then they say no. It is tempting to put that down to salary and move on. Sometimes it is salary. Sometimes the candidate has seen something during the process that your offer cannot… Read More
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An engineer hands in their notice and suddenly recruitment becomes urgent. The old job specification comes out, somebody asks for an advert and the business wants the replacement yesterday. I see this in engineering and manufacturing SMEs. The difficulty is that the document may describe the job as it existed years ago, while the person leaving… Read More
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