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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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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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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“We cannot find an engineer” is the beginning of the conversation. It is not yet a description of the problem. Which engineer? Doing what? On which equipment, with what responsibility, in which location and on which hours? Manufacturing covers a lot of ground. A job title that sounds familiar can conceal a very particular requirement. That… Read More
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Rejecting an applicant is part of recruitment. Making a quick assumption about somebody and then struggling to explain the decision is a different matter. For a hiring manager, the useful starting point is simple: what did this job genuinely require, what evidence did you consider and why was the person not selected? If those answers are… Read More
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To find great people today is getting harder and harder. We as recruiters have many methods in an arsenal to find people – to be fair, it’s our job, it’s what we get paid to do. What we have realised over the years, and thanks to the job websites 1 click applications – The job applicant… Read More
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