Category: Talent aquisition

            Skill shortages and what this means from an HR perspective The National Office of Statistics has identified a couple of areas where there will be serious skills shortages this year and this will almost certainly affect your business in some way, unless your HR team or the agencies your partner with are getting creative about how they search for their candidates. High end Technical and Engineering Sales & Business Development Finance, Professional, Managerial Not having the right skills at the right time in your…

How To Welcome New Staff Into Existing Teams and save yourself over £30,000 in the process! Recruiting a new member of staff for your growing business can be a really exciting time, but it’s something that you should definitely consider carefully before you rush into taking action. Getting it wrong costs over £30,000 per new employee, according to the Oxford Economics group when they recently conducted a study with SME’s about new employees joining their businesses. One of the key challenges that you’re going to face is ensuring your new…

According to the Citizens Advice Bureau, it’s time for employers and recruiters alike to pull their socks up and start creating job adverts that effectively communicate key information about vacant roles. It was claimed that nine out of ten job ads on internet recruitment portals failed to meet requirements outlined by the Advertising Standards Agency, and failed to give basic key information about pay and hours. So the message here is really quite clear. Businesses need to start crafting clear job adverts that share as much information as possible. Not…

There comes a time in the working lives of many business owners when they think that recruitment is their only option. Orders are increasing, profit is looking extremely healthy, and they’re keen to expand and take things to the next level. Sound familiar? At this stage, it’s likely that your nearest and dearest are either urging you to take the plunge and bring on your first member of staff. Of course, it should go without saying that you should rarely turn to friends and family for business advice. They might…

This year has been billed ‘The Year Of The Candidate’, due to skills shortages in the marketplace. Ever since the term was first coined in a Wall Street Journal article at the very beginning of January, the concept quickly gained momentum amongst HR circles and those who are passionate about matching the best people with the right roles. But as a business owner, how will this have an impact on the work you do? Basically, there aren’t enough white-collar professionals to go round. If you want to fill your higher-level…

Have you ever considered bringing in new talent to your business with apprenticeships? Following Labour leader Ed Miliband’s recent pledge to guarantee them for all school leavers who get the grades by 2020, should his party win the general election of course, it’s a subject that’s once again back on the table. Miliband argued that better training and higher wages were what would be needed to give the work schemes a much-needed overhaul, and suggested that they could play a significant role in boosting productivity and driving the economy forward.…

A recent study by CIPD suggests that whilst organisations as a whole are improving when it comes to the opportunities that they offer young people, small and medium sized businesses are lagging behind. Almost 50% of companies now offer apprenticeships, and 80% employ at least one young person. SMEs though were much less likely to pull their weight in these key areas. Graduate recruitment was another indicator that smaller businesses didn’t measure up. Just one in ten offered a graduate training programme, whilst 51% of bigger companies used this as…

Whether you use it to plan your social life, keep abreast of the latest news, or just to keep up to date with friends and family, it’s likely that Facebook plays a pretty significant role in your life. The social network giant has over a billion registered users, and during December 2014, there was an average of 890 million active daily users. In short, it’s an integral part of modern life, and there’s no denying that it’s shaped the way we communicate and interact. All things considered then, why do…