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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You have a decent job, a sensible salary and a business you are proud of. You put the advert out. Then you wait. Where are all the good candidates? Why aren’t they applying? Sometimes the answer is sitting in another engineering business, doing much the same job, putting up with a collection of things they already… 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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You have a difficult engineering vacancy. The first agency has not solved it, so you call a second. Then a third. More agencies should mean a wider net, should it not? Sometimes it broadens the search. But for a narrow specialist role, I have seen it do the opposite: the same candidates approached repeatedly, mixed messages… Read More
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