In today’s market, talent acquisition teams always have a list of tasks longer than hours in the working day. In times of hardship, efficiencies become more essential than ever, and making the absolute most of every resource at your disposal is top of everyone’s list. In this climate, it’s no wonder that many businesses are …
With only 1 in 3 young people thinking employers are supportive of hiring them, and just under half not being confident that they will progress into a good job (Youth Voice Census), it’s clear that there is significant disconnect between young people and employers. Most employers will confirm they’re committed to reaching diverse audiences and …
‘Our biggest failure though, is the lack of support for young people who have transitioned out of education in the years since Covid-19’. That’s a hard-hitting sentence to start a blog with, but when I read it in the Youth Voice Census 2023, it hit me like a tonne of bricks. Working with amazing businesses …
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One of our clients, a multinational professional services firm, recently saw spectacular improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of their FAQ processes, through small edits to their chatbot and live 121 chat processes.
Regularly reviewing processes and user experience data can yield simple solutions that have huge effects on efficiency and candidate experience.
Support your early careers candidates with a personalised hiring journey that adds real value If you recruit in the Early Careers space, typically you’ve set a multi-stage hiring journey which will take several hours to complete over a period of weeks or potentially months. You’ll have designed your hiring journey to achieve the best outcomes …
Personalisation is something we take for granted in almost all aspects of our lives, to the point it stands out when we’re treated in an untailored way. It feels clumsy, out of sync and off-putting. You know the sort of thing; the email arriving saying ‘Dear First Name’ rather than your actual first name. It’s …
The power of positive personalisation: it’s more than getting the name right! Read More »
This task seems to get harder every year. Is it simply that we live in a more unstable world, along with all the associated economic and human factors that entails? That certainly could be said of the last twelve months and moving into 2023. To make some sound predictions for next year, I’ve drawn on …
Creating a candidate journey to support and empower. The uncertain economic landscape continues to have a massive impact on opportunities for younger people in general, but most profoundly on those from a lower socio-economic background. On one hand, you have the worst cost of living crisis we have seen in decades; spiralling food and fuel …
The Five Principles of Good Onboarding Sarah Brown and her team at Meet & Engage manage the strategy and delivery of automated onboarding journeys for clients using Timeline for Onboarding The idea of formally welcoming a new joiner into the business apparently stems from the rather severe sounding concept of ‘organisational socialisation’ that was conceived …
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By Sarah Lane Last week was the ISE Diversity & Inclusion Conference 2021 and as I exercised my well-practised digital conference etiquette, I felt the stories and experiences shared by a diverse panel of students were particularly engaging and thought-provoking. When it comes to resourcing, it’s often easy to get lost in the noise and …
Inclusion at Work – What Do Students Want to Know? Read More »