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candidate trends in 2022: part 2
In part one I looked at how factors such as a commitment to environmental sustainability is important to potential employees but has limited actual impact on their decisions the further into the hiring process we move. The real impact of such factors (from a recruitment perspective) lies in promoting them early in the process, as part of your employer brand – so they become more a marketing than sales tool.
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When hiring for long term employees, however, functional skills should form part of a broader candidate profile comprising life experience, values, motivators, personality traits and soft skills. This is where we have seen an erosion in best practice. Talk of ‘the great resignation’ and consequent skill shortages has notched up the sense of panic, pushing up salaries and lowering the threshold in the other aspects of screening outside functional skills.
READ MORE10 years on: what i have learned running a boutique recruitment business
d especially recruitment. Keep the glass half full! Some people tell me Stone must be a success as we are still around 10 years later. Other remind me that Stone was formed around the same time as WhatsApp and Uber, who have slightly edged ahead in the same time frame…
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