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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 Recruitment is a process and an industry that is out of date and which needs disruption.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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Candidate.ID, the startup that's on a mission to build talent pipelines, which enable the world’s employers to hire faster with higher quality... As we said in our recent article about recruitment startup for the industrial sector, Pickr, a survey of over 700 UK businesses showed that one of the two biggest challenges these businesses will face in 2019 is recruitment. As usual, startups ...
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The Norwich based startup Pickr that is innovating recruitment for the industrial sectors with their digital staffing solution... As we highlighted in January, a survey conducted by global credit company Creditsafe and completed by 755 business leaders predicts that the biggest challenges to UK businesses in 2019 will be recruitment and the economy. One in five of these businesses believe...
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There are many benefits of diversity in tech and having a diverse team. Here are some ways a company can attract diverse talent into tech. The technology industry is put at the heart of success for British companies as it is head of the pack for driving innovation. This is perhaps down to AI as it has the potential to be transformative and enables businesses and people to thrive in the digital wo...
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