Human capabilities vs skills: the answer to hard to fill vacancies?
Are hard-to-fill job vacancies keeping you up at night? If you’re struggling to find the right candidates for the right roles, you might be asking yourself where you’re going wrong. But the talent is out there – all we need is a fresh approach to finding them.
Recruiting and retaining older talent: 7 tips to make your business age-smart
If your business is struggling to find the right candidates for the right roles, perhaps it’s time to rethink what a ‘good’ candidate looks like. Perhaps it’s time to get ‘age-smart’.
Developing an effective staff retention strategy: why personalisation is the key
Right now, employees hold all the cards. At least that’s what I’m hearing every day from my clients in businesses both large and small. With the UK facing a skills shortage, too many companies are chasing too few employees, and as a result, many tell me they’re struggling to attract the right calibre of candidates to fill their vacancies.
A crisis in recruitment: Is Diversity and Inclusion key to fixing the current skills shortage?
At a recent Recruitment Peer Network, recruiters, HR managers and Recrion talked about the challenges of salary inflation, candidates gazumping job offers, the risk of speeding up recruitment processes versus making the right hiring decisions.
What’s the secret recipe? How to recruit fresh talent in a post-pandemic job market
“For a long time, candidates have been treated like fast food. You pick up a menu, see which dishes tick your boxes, and order them ready made to your door. But recruitment professionals are missing a trick by only considering these ready made options! "says Katherine Wiid, Recruitment and Retention Coach at Recrion.
Quality not quantity: How attractive are the jobs you’re advertising?
“The past year of upheaval has allowed us all to revaluate a lot of things. From our jobs, to our home lives and hobbies, to our work-life balance. And as a result, I’m seeing a real shift in the way people think about work. No longer is having a job what’s important - we’re thinking more about the quality of the job and getting better jobs,” says Katherine Wiid, Recruitment and Retention Coach…
Tripped up by technology: Are you getting distracted when recruiting remotely?
Many organisations have been forced online during 2020. From whole teams moving to online comms tools, to digital time sheets, Zoom conference calls and recruiting via video. It’s been a steep learning curve for many, adapting to this new world of working from home.
Cambridge company allows its employees to flourish
Could your working environment be holding your employees back from reaching their full potential? Yes, says Katherine Wiid, Recruitment and Retention Coach at Recrion.
Brexit uncertainty isn’t putting candidates off, but lousy job adverts are
There’s been much talk about the effects of Brexit on the job market. But local recruitment retention expert Katherine Wiid of Recrion says that another common problem is to blame for the reported candidate shortages…
Candidates frustrated with broken recruitment processes
It seems as though every month there’s a new approach to recruiting. The beer test, video interviews, assignments… candidates never know what to expect.
Is start up recruitment moving too fast?
The world of start-ups is fast paced, adrenaline-fuelled and forever changing. And while their technology and business may be rapidly shifting, should the way they recruit and think about their employees be at the same pace?
Miss-hiring - why Google doesn't get it wrong
More and more decision makers are trying to manage the fall out from hiring the wrong candidate. The financial costs we know about - but what about the personal costs?
The power of words in recruitment
A simple choice of words can make the difference between recruiting and retaining top performers 90% of the time or getting it right only 50% of the time.
Defining your workplace culture is crucial to increasing your recruitment accuracy
Establishing a picture of your ideal candidate is tricky. Inevitably, everyone from the CEO to the recruiting manager is going to have a different opinion with strong ideas of who would fit in. These opinions are usually influenced by the ways in which they themselves are motivated.
Who stole the limelight at the Cambridge Network Jobs Fair?
Amazon, the Royal Society of Chemistry, TTP, Domino Printing Sciences and 19 other hi techs and biotechs competed for candidates on a rain sodden day in September. Who stood out?
How to hire and inspire staff
How do you hire motivated staff and continue to inspire them once they’re on board? That's the million dollar question.
Tips to increase your recruitment accuracy
How do you go about hiring new staff for your organisation? Advertisement – CVs – Interview process – Offer? If this is your chosen process when it comes to hiring new staff, is it working well for you?
Are you contributing to the Skills Gap?
Having spent yet another day talking to a stressed manager who can't find the people with the right skills to join their technology company in Cambridge, the more convinced I am that it’s not just about skills, says Katherine Wiid of Recrion.
Introverts versus extroverts - who makes the better business leader?
Myths and debates over the two polar opposite behavioural types - introverts and extroverts - have kept going since Carl Jung first defined the theory in the early 1920s. Has the digital age given rise to the supremacy of the Introvert over the Extrovert?
The skills gap split open
The upturn in the economy and increase in hiring is creating a worrying phenomenon. DID hiring strategies. Managers writing job descriptions designed for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder or split identities. The worst cases involve multiple personalities, not just two.
Employee turnover: start counting the cost
As the UK emerges from one of the worst recessions it has seen, new pressures arise for business as employee attrition raises its head.
Talent Management success - definitive report on what to focus in uncertain economy
Whatever the business, whatever the sector, maintaining a fully motivated team at all times is something that is difficult and requires lots of thought and effort.