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How Recruiters Can Stay Ahead of the Pack
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th January 2021
Whether you're recruiting for a small tech startup or a large well-established organisation, these tips will help you stay on top of your game
Competition for top talent is fierce, and nobody wants to lose out. Small tech startups and big businesses are ramping up how much time and money they spend attracting the brightest candidates. With this in mind, you don’t want to find yourself una...
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What Types of Highlights You Should Look for in a Resume or CV
by: Startacus Admin ~ 19th November 2020
Some basic tips on the key areas to focus on in a candidate's CV or resume to help make recruitment a little easier...
When you’re new to the hiring process and tasked to review resumes, it can feel overwhelming. There’s so much information on each resume, and to be frank, some of it is completely irrelevant.
So how do you know what to focus on and what to skip? In truth, the...
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DBS Checks and recruiting during COVID - Managers, Don't Miss Out
by: Startacus Admin ~ 26th October 2020
Recruiting at the moment or planning to do so soon? Here are just a few of the reasons why doing background checks on your candidates is an absolute must
Hiring is among the most important tasks managers have and is doubtlessly one of the foundations of a company's success. Also, recruiting the right candidates is the hardest, most demanding, and poorly understood parts of building up a busines...
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Swyg - disrupting the recruitment process
by: Startacus Admin ~ 11th October 2020
Swyg, the Irish startup that's on a mission to improve hiring by using AI to help remove assumptions and biases from the recruitment process...
We write fairly often about recruitment, with some of the most recent examples being Caroo and Talentful. Recruitment is a process and an industry that is out of date and which needs disruption. It is currently experiencing this disruption, but ...
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ISOLATION INTERN to help startups recruit specialist talent during Covid 19 restrictions
by: Startacus Admin ~ 7th May 2020Blackfinch Launches ISOLATIONINTERN, a platform to help startups recruit specialist talent during Covid 19 restrictions. Partnership initiative with investment and venture capital firms and universities allows startups to enlist the UK’s brightest students and researchers to work from home.
Blackfinch Group announces the launch of the #ISOLATIONINTERN platform in partnership ...
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Research reveals that one-third of British SMEs lost clients due to poor people skills
by: Startacus Admin ~ 26th February 2020People skills really matter to business - as this latest survey shows...
Interesting findings announced from a survey undertaken by Tempo, an end-to-end hiring platform trusted by Monzo, Bulb and Starling Bank, indicating the negative impact that shoddy interpersonal skills can have on a fast-growing business.The survey which is part of Tempo’s new ‘Master of More’ campaign has ...
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Increase Your Talent Retention Without Raising Salaries
by: Startacus Admin ~ 24th January 2020With the UK facing serious skills shortages in a variety of sectors, it’s increasingly important that companies retain the talent that they already have.
Whilst many firms focus on salary, research shows that the majority of staff actually prefer benefits to high monetary compensation.
As such, it’s crucial that firms review their entire hiring process and internal culture in order t...
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Recruitment startup Otta aims to put the job-seeker first
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th January 2020
The recruitment startup, Otta, that puts the job-seeker first and only provides the most relevant and personalised job recommendations...
Last year, we featured a number of recruitment startups, from Candidate.ID, to Talentful, to Dolphin. This is a sector that will always be relevant, and in which disruption and innovation will always be welcome, so why not continue to highlight such tech ...
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Caroo aims to turn recruitment on its head - Pies, Pooches and Machine Learning!
by: Startacus Admin ~ 24th November 2019
The lowdown on Caroo, the Manchester-based startup that is shaking the recruitment sector up, by doing everything differently...
Gareth Peterson is a self-confessed geek and managing Director of Caroo. He eats recruitment agencies for breakfast and is disrupting the sector with a platform designed perfectly for the passive candidate where they can add their data in six taps, powering an algorit...
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The key personalities and soft skills you need on your initial start-up team
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th October 2019Not having the right team is a common reason why startups fail. Read this advice from startup specialist law firm Harper James Solicitors for some of the key personalities and soft skills you'll need in your initial start-up team...
When you look at the why startups fail, not having the right team is the third most common reason. It’s vital to select the right team of people who are re...
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