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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many businesses need to implement a wide range of telecommuting options in order to allow employees to work from home. Working from home has proved so successful in certain fields that businesses such as Google are reported to be looking at letting far more of their employees work from home than in pre-lockdown times.
One of the biggest boons to working from home is the emergence of cloud-based technologies, allowing employees to collaborate on and share documents in real time across multiple locations, w
Read more →In a rapidly evolving market, attracting and engaging with the right candidates is a continuous and competitive process of increasing challenge; a high frequency of time intensive tasks, often weighted with paperwork, creates a trail that is hard to keep track of, not guaranteed to provide a good candidate experience and which can be inconsistent in winning the best talent.
Recruitment CRM software in the UK: what’s changing?
The landscape of hiring is being transformed by recruitment CRM software; an automated s
Read more →It is entirely possible to obtain better results for your recruitment business using CRM. Securing the best results in the recruitment industry relies heavily on being the first to get the best candidates in front of the right people; candidates with the skills that they’re looking for. One of the most important aspects of maintaining good relationships with both recruiters and candidates is regular communication.
Communications need to be well-timed and professionally delivered. You need to ensure that candidates receive all the infor
Read more →Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) is a human resources software solution used by recruitment agents or hiring companies to determine whether an applicant meets the requirements for an advertised vacancy. ATS systems can also include a variety of additional features that help the recruitment agency or hiring company to manage the process efficiently.
Why do employers and agents use ATS?
When anyone makes an application for a vac
Read more →During the Covid-19 crisis, many businesses hurriedly had to adapt to new ways of working as people were told to stay home and work remotely where possible. Job roles had to be modified so that people could work around the new constraints and many businesses underwent a digital transformation, shifting as many tasks as they could online, from developing e-commerce solutions to holding video conferences and carrying out marketing functions through online channels.
A Changing Workforce
For the recruitment industry,
Read more →The same applies in public and private firms up and down the country. From an administrative point of view, it might seem like a big challenge to move all of your working systems from paper to an electronic format, but the benefits of making the change are plentiful. You will reduce clutter in the workplace, make flexible and home working simpler for your staff, and streamline many long-winded and tedious processes.
And when it comes to swapping from paper to online timesheets in particular, you’ll wonder why you never did it sooner. B
Read more →Contrary to popular belief, recruitment has not ground to a halt across all sectors. Yes, times are tough for many organisations, but for some, the lockdown is a blessing in disguise. Every cloud has a silver lining. Tech companies are still recruiting as are some large employers, even if they are not necessarily going for permanent staff. And there are other areas that are recruiting, too, so they’d better ensure that their temporary recruitment software is fully up-to-d
Read more →Recruitment has drastically fallen during the pandemic. Candidates have postponed their job searches and many firms have temporarily closed or reduced their services to protect their existing staff.
Looking to the future, recruitment will need to restart – albeit gradually – at some point. Some businesses will already have failed to survive the financial implications of the pandemic, while others will be eager to avoid the same fate. With the economy in turmoi
Read more →Lockdown restrictions are slowly being lifted. As staff, managers and unions work to ensure that workplaces are implementing measures to keep their workers safe, more and more businesses are putting plans in place for their staff to return. With the restrictions lifting gradually, the demands for employees in a number of businesses are increasing.
The three-step plan to exit the coronavirus lockdown includes different working sectors moving to resume business
Read more →The lockdown market has sent many recruiting agencies into a bit of a tailspin – So many of us thrive on the push-and-pull of office culture and being able to check in with our colleagues. If you’re working from home during the COVID-19 crisis, these are the three best recruitment CRM features for remote recruiters that will help you and your customers right now.