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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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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, 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 Recruitment is a process and an industry that is out of date and which needs disruption.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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Blackfinch 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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People 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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With 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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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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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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Not 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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Job hunting for high impact jobs made easy, thanks to Dolphin, the startup that'll help you to find a job that’s rewarding for both you and the world... Everyone loves dolphins. They’re cute and highly intelligent and inquisitive and they help us to get jobs. Everyone also loves the idea of working in a career they enjoy and in a company that they can be proud to be a part-- Wait, dol...
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