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About to start recruiting for your small business? Here are a few basic tips to help you hire the best staff. Hiring the right support staff can be crucial to the success of any business. When hiring staff for your small business, you want to find candidates that will have a passion for your business and become a champion for your company. Onboarding the wrong staff members can create tension, ...
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Want to attract more candidates to your advertised roles? These basic tips should help you do just that. When handling the recruitment of new employees, whether you’re the business owner, a hiring manager, or an internal recruiter, there are times when it can feel very difficult to attract a healthy number of candidates to your business. This is especially valid today as the jobs market h...
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Interested in discovering how best to advertise a job vacancy? These tips will help you to do just that... It goes without saying, but employees are the heart and soul of any company; any business owner will tell you that! They ensure that your business's day-to-day comings and goings are attended to, all the while ensuring that new solutions to obstacles you might be facing are discovered.&nbs...
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The lowdown on Veremark, the London-based startup that's created an automated digital first solution to help employers and recruiters with pre-employment candidate screening Some of us are familiar with slightly exaggerating our CVs to make ourselves sound a bit better. Spent a lot of time browsing Twitter at work? You’re a social media specialist. Once corrected a spelling mistake before...
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Considering hiring some graduates for your team? Here are some basic tips to help you do just that So, you need to recruit some staff to join your team, but you want them to be recent graduates – but how do you do this? Often, there are more graduates than there are opportunities, but it is important that you aren’t just hiring the first person who applies to a role. It is possible ...
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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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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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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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Common costly mistakes when hiring a team. Use this UK focused advice, care of Simon Gilmour, Employment Law Partner for Harper James Solicitors, to help avoid high hiring costs, low workplace morale and mistakes which could have you constantly recruiting. Starting a business means putting together a crack team to help you achieve your dream – but making mistakes with who you hire, how...
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The lowdown on Talentful, the startup that's using your cultural fit and personality to match you to a job and employer... Most of us have worked in jobs where we might not be so unhappy with the work if we were in a slightly different position or just had the right people around us. Our mentality doesn’t quite suit the role or team we are in. Perhaps we are at the bottom of the food chain,...
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