Talking about prospective employees’ skills rather than focusing on the recruiting company’s needs is one of the techniques that can quadruple passive candidate response rates, according to Johnny Campbell, chief sourcing ‘ninja’ at Social Talent.
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While the UK’s unemployment rate has fallen to 5.8%, public sector employment has reached a record low, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
Online taxi summoning service Uber will turn to its career portal to fill an anticipated 50k jobs across Europe.
“Passionate” “enthusiastic” and “exceptional” were among the top 10 overused buzzwords by recruiters in 2014, according to professional networking site LinkedIn.
Seven Londonderry-based businesses are creating 65 new jobs combined, investing a total of £2.8m in the local economy.
Recruiting, particularly by in-house recruiters, has become a very strategic business function, according to Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) chief executive Peter Cheese.
Heads of resourcing command a pay premium over heads of talent, according to the latest In-house Recruitment Salary Rewards Survey 2014/15 from the Forum for In-house Recruitment Managers (The FIRM).
A recruitment initiative that initially harnessed the buying power of three London borough councils to save money has now been rolled out to 171 local authorities nationwide and will go live in April.
Sales representative positions are the most difficult roles to fill in three out of five of the UK’s largest job-creating cities, according to global job board Indeed.
Almost half of HR directors plan to increase permanent recruitment of professionals in H1 2015, according to finance staffing specialist Robert Half.