The Fake CV Scandal: Are Big Tech Names Screening Candidates Properly?

Tech recruitment tips for bringing the best STEM talent to your startup

Speed is everything in today’s tech recruitment market, but don’t let it affect quality of hire

8 Recruitment Trends We Expect To See More of In 2022

Five scenarios where you may need to outsource recruitment support

Inclusive Team: How to Attract Diverse Talents to Your Team

How to navigate graduate hiring in a competitive market

Talent Works and KCoe Isom Launch New Campaign to Meet Accelerated Growth Demands

Hiring at Volume: How Do You Evaluate If You’re Bringing In The Right Talent?

On and Off Hiring: How to Use Hiring Downtime To Your Advantage

The Fake CV Scandal: Are Big Tech Names Screening Candidates Properly?

Failing to screen CVs properly will waste everyone’s time. If recruiters let fake CVs like this one slip through the net and reach further stages of the recruitment process, the likelihood is they’ll have to start again once the truth comes out. Restarting the recruitment process is costly and time-consuming, plus there’s a chance you could lose out on talented candidates that have already been rejected the first time around. In a candidate-driven market, these skilled people will likely have been snapped up by the competition. Recruitment teams will double their work, and the role will take longer to hire, which could cause productivity problems later down the line.

Tech recruitment tips for bringing the best STEM talent to your startup

Today is National STEM Day, a day that celebrates science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As we all know, the demand for STEM talent is high. Graduates from these subjects get swept up incredibly quickly, but more and more employers are realising the value in their skills, creating a huge skills gap. With big-name tech companies having the advantage of reputation when it comes to STEM talent attraction, startups are often left behind even though they have so much to offer.
The demand for technical talent like data scientists, engineers and more is not expected to slow down any time soon. This means startups in particular need to work hard if they wish to attract the STEM talent they need to grow their business and meet the demand for their products and services. Growth cannot be put on hold, and talent is required for business success.

Speed is everything in today’s tech recruitment market, but don’t let it affect quality of hire

cruitment game is becoming more about speed and agility than ever. This is causing concern for many companies, as, of course, they want to be sure about the people they’re hiring and know that they’ll be excellent quality hires. Scaling businesses that have smaller teams to begin with need to ensure that the people they’re hiring are a cultural fit and have the skills to grow a business and enhance its offering. Therefore, it’s understandable that these businesses, where possible, would like to take time when it comes to hiring, including multiple interviews, tasks and time to decide with the wider team. However, in a highly competitive, candidate-driven market, time is a luxury few employers can afford.

8 Recruitment Trends We Expect To See More of In 2022

In the last twelve months, recruitment strategies have had to adapt to change. Hiring practices that were the norm in a post-pandemic world are beginning to look dated and ineffective. With remote working and skills shortages taking over, it quickly became apparent in the early half of this year that the recruitment landscape wasn’t ever going to be the same as it once was, and many of us had to adapt. Therefore, we’ve had a lot of time to experiment and reflect on what hiring practices work best in this new normal.

Five scenarios where you may need to outsource recruitment support

When you’re a talent acquisition specialist, bringing in external help is a huge decision, and there can often be a bit of a stigma attached to it. Many believe that outsourcing recruitment or asking for the help of an RPO provider creates the connotation that your existing talent function isn’t working and that you need help to do your job. However, enlisting an RPO agency to work as a recruitment partner is a strategic way of finding this support without making permanent or hard to reverse decisions. In many cases, it’s a more cost effective and intelligent way of solving talent acquisition challenges.

Inclusive Team: How to Attract Diverse Talents to Your Team

Having a diverse team is almost a necessity for every organization that is focused on growth. Besides being a way of fulfilling the law in some countries, a diverse team is a valuable asset that any organization can leverage. Bringing in people who have different perspectives results in increased creativity and innovation. Decision-making and problem […]

How to navigate graduate hiring in a competitive market

With competition for talent fiercer than ever as we enter a candidate-driven market, many business leaders are realising that graduates could be the key to solving recruitment challenges. This means that this talent pool will soon be the target for many companies trying to fill essential skills gaps, and the graduates within it will quickly be snapped up. Therefore, graduate hiring is bound to see an uptake. However, to be ahead of the game and ensure that your scaling tech business can attract the best graduate talent, you need to have a strategic approach to hiring and tailor your talent acquisition efforts to this particular audience.

Talent Works and KCoe Isom Launch New Campaign to Meet Accelerated Growth Demands

Talent Works is working with KCoe Isom hiring managers to meet the accelerated demand of roles to support tax and accounting requirements for every part of the agriculture industry. KCoe Isom is expanding in many of its locations, including Fresno, Jackson, Kansas City, Nashville and Wichita. Talent Works and KCoe Isom are building a flexible and resilient talent acquisition strategy designed to appeal to those wanting a better work-life balance while working for a top 100 leader in the space.

Hiring at Volume: How Do You Evaluate If You’re Bringing In The Right Talent?

Recruitment is becoming more quality over quantity. It’s no good making lots of hires for your scaling tech business if they’re all going to leave you shortly after joining, or if they aren’t going to help you grow. Poor quality hires can hinder growth in many startups, especially if they take a long time to pick up the required skills and responsibilities.
s time to determine the actual quality of the hire and for each business. With different KPIs and business goals, the definition of a quality candidate will alter. Likewise, metrics that define success will be personal and can change. There is no one size fits all formula to determine whether hiring a particular candidate was a good move for your business. But, one thing is certain. The quality of hires you bring into your organisation directly reflects the quality of your recruitment process. Suppose you’re hiring people who are an excellent fit for your business. In that case, it shows that you are accurately showcasing your employer brand, using the proper recruitment marketing techniques to get in front of candidates, and having a great candidate experience that encourages applications. If you aren’t hiring the right people, then it’s likely that your recruitment process needs some work, whether that’s expanding your talent pools or working on your employer brand communications.

On and Off Hiring: How to Use Hiring Downtime To Your Advantage

In the growth stages, there can be pressure to maintain your hiring momentum to demonstrate your success. Hiring more people means more demand for your services, which means your business is thriving. However, as a growing business, you cannot hire all the time. There isn’t the capacity, and there isn’t always the demand to hire new roles. Hiring freezes are sometimes essential as your business progresses.
When done strategically, freezing or pausing hiring can create much-needed breathing space for your HR teams which can help give your business a competitive edge. Especially in today’s competitive talent market, you can be caught up in the rat race of recruitment, trying to bring in qualified candidates as quickly as possible regardless of their cultural fit or expectations. Aspects of the hiring process and employee experience often get lost or overlooked during intense hiring periods, so giving yourself time and resources to reflect and evaluate these processes could help refine your hiring process. Instead of recruiting quickly and without a real strategy, you can ensure you’re planning ahead for future hires, creating better experiences for new and existing employees and build a more tactical approach to hiring, which will set you ahead of the competition.

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