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In many industries, the hiring process has become a slow and bloated beast. The proliferation of expert advice on how to screen candidates and conduct interviews, although given in good faith, has turned what should be a dynamic and positive exercise into a bureaucratic logjam. Time, resources and money are often wasted on creating an experience that is hard work and frequently unrewarding. This is especially true in recruiting for executive roles and for roles that are seen as pivotal to a company’s growth.

There is usually one simple reason why recruitment agencies choose to invest in specialist staffing software: and that is that they want to make things better. Here, “better” can include a wide range of elements: from greater efficiency and productivity to easier processes, through to managing data more securely. However, this can only be achieved by investing in the right software solution. Read on to discover the five major indications that you are making the right software choices for your agency.
1. Built-In Search Capabil
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A hiring hiatus is to be expected now and again, especially in times of economic difficulty or after a global pandemic; however, there is plenty that recruiters can do to overcome this quiet period and set them up for success while they wait for hiring to return. Here are ten ideas for staying productive and continuing to add value.
1. Look at your staffing CRM and overall tech stack
Tech changes constantly, so look at your staffing CRM and other software systems and ask yourself whether they still make the gra
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Recruitment is challenging in any business, with ensuring you hire the best talent vital for your continued prosperity and growth. In most circumstances, you are likely to be filling a single role or perhaps a handful; however, a radical shift in business conditions, such as a major new contract or an opportunity for investment and expansion, can mean you suddenly need to hire in high volume. Many roles might be permanent but the demands of flexible scalability mean that temporary staff might be an alternative solution; either way, the probl
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Tens of thousands of businesses leverage the power of LinkedIn to find high-quality candidates to fill vacancies within their teams. In addition to being the leading professional social network, LinkedIn has valuable tools designed to help recruitment teams streamline their hiring process.
LinkedIn Recruiter is a robust tool that makes the process of identifying and engaging with candidates even easier via features such as AI-based recommendations, advanced filters, and personalised
Read more →Recruitment has traditionally been an extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive process; however, the past two decades have seen much greater adoption of newer technologies by recruitment teams to help combat this. This has included the use of candidate relationship management systems (CRMs) and, more recently, a move to cloud-based systems.
There are tools now widely available that are aimed at making life much easier for recruiters. These include CRMs and online job
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The rules around data collection and processing changed in May 2018 to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). If you use software for your recruitment processes, it is vital that your use of it is compliant with GDPR. The following are three steps to ensure that it is.
There are several ways in which you can check tha
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Digital automation is one of the most powerful tools in the business kit. Its capacity to improve productivity, efficiency, customer satisfaction, cost savings and employee fulfilment is considerable.
If you routinely work with clients on both permanent and temporary recruitment software will already be an important component of your processes. But there is a temptation once you have invested in this kind of resource to make use of
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Social media platforms including Facebook allow businesses to recruit high-quality candidates that they otherwise would have struggled to reach through traditional hiring methods. But before we dive into some of the social media recruiting tools on offer, here are a few reasons why Facebook should play a key role in your hiring process.
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Virtual recruitment has become increasingly popular, made possible by technologies such as the candidate relationship management system (CRM). In the absence of in-person communication, it’s essential to gather feedback from candidates throughout the virtual hiring process. CRM systems can help to do this.
– Gathering feedback helps to hire organisations and
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