candidate trends in 2022: part 1
If 2022 continues along the same lines as the end of 2021, we will see huge movement across employment markets. This blog aims to give some guidelines to growing employers as they face the new challenges brought about by a unique global situation.
READ MOREimprove your hiring by addressing these two areas
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 MORE20 ways to improve your hiring strategy: tip #6 the impact of a branding video
Most companies with any ambition at all are changing for the better, with a purpose and focus that drives performance. In order to grow and hire like-minded people, they need to share that news with the market and present themselves as they see themselves.
READ MOREstone: the recruitment evolution
Several years of picking up rocks to see what was underneath them and we now have a system of checks and methodologies that we can apply to any business and their hiring ‘supply chain’. Our ecosystem of services now encompasses Recruitment Delivery, as well as Employer Branding, Workforce Planning and Process Optimisation.
READ MOREkeeping a straight line from strategy to hiring
When a company is in early start-up mode, the hiring process is thorough, novel and exhilarating. The interviewing is generally managed and conducted by the principal of the business. As a result, there is a direct connection between the strategy and the hiring process – a straight line from strategy to hiring.
READ MOREemployer branding: a scenario
Employer Branding is the creation of an employer identity that resonates with current and future employees. You gradually build your brand identity by highlighting your value as an employer, to position yourself above the competition, reaching areas of the talent market that may otherwise have been inaccessible.
READ MORE20 ways to improve your hiring strategy: tip #5 optimising your recruitment process
High-growth SMEs are remarkably busy places to be. Everyone is working on so much more than just their day job. As a result, even in well managed environments, there can be a lot of inefficiencies, duplication and missed opportunities in the areas outside business as usual. Recruitment is one which suffers.
READ MOREtry implementing these three strategies to encourage productivity
Research shows that willpower is like a muscle and it gets fatigued as you use it throughout the days and weeks. You can help to solve this problem by picking a new habit that is easy enough that you don’t need motivation to do it and then gradually add to the number of habits that you perform each day.
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