Talent Acquisition

Nowadays, in a very competitive job market, hiring experienced talent with the skills you’re looking for, is getting trickier by the day. Particularly if you’re hiring in an area of skill shortage, for example, technology. According to Lee Biggins, Managing Director of the UK’s largest job board CV Library, (2019), the biggest challenges facing the recruitment market include […]

We’re only halfway through the year and you’ll likely already be hearing the dreaded C-word – Yes Christmas! As much as I like to keep my festive blinkers on until at least November 30th, if you are responsible for recruiting seasonal staff to cover the busy period this isn’t a luxury you can afford. Activity has

There’s never a shortage of predictions when it comes to the impact of technology on the world of Talent and Resourcing, but here TMPW’s Rowena Bach takes a look at two major themes – mental health and candidate experience – and shares her observations on the impact technology is having in these areas. When it comes to mental health,

We all want to be efficient when it comes to our recruitment processes and we all want to provide a great candidate experience. But are these two aims mutually exclusive or can you streamline processes for the benefit of both your teams and your candidates? With 79% of in-house recruiters expecting their delivery targets to increase over

Length of service with an organisation was fairly constant from the 1950s up until the last decade or so. Before then, it was not unusual for a CV or resume to list no more than four employers, and any more than that was considered flighty. People joined companies on leaving education and stuck around, hoping

In today’s competitive labour market, where candidates’ use technology daily, candidate experience is an essential consideration, not a ‘nice to have’. We recently ran a webinar about the types of Candidate Experience Chatbots that can be deployed to help you with your recruitment activities. Following our poll during the webinar, more than 80% of the attendees expressed

Is there a way to engage a huge volume of candidates and give each of them something that feels like a personalised experience of the process? These days, almost everyone is a professional consumer and, as such, extremely well versed in the art of the purchase. We get an idea that we want something; we

Organisations that are employing the next generation of their workforce have the pressure to attract and engage with a diverse range of candidates from various socio-economic backgrounds. Most opportunities for these organisations are often seen as simply inaccessible to those who don’t have particular qualifications or are not educated to degree level. And it shows.

Innovation lies at the heart of everything global business and technology consultancy, Capco do. So, to tackle the complex challenges of today’s competitive candidate-driven market, particularly attracting and engaging with scarce skills candidates, Capco needed an innovative solution and so implemented Meet & Engage Candidate Experience technology. ‘Unicorn candidates’ are extremely valuable to organisations like Capco. However, attracting

After looking through research by Manpower on the use of technology, especially, virtual assistant technology to support the recruitment process we decided to pick out some our favourite salient points that really drive home everything that we believe about technology and its place in recruitment. From clicking ads for jobs on social media to asking Siri, Cortana