Business News
May 22, 2018
Hiring the right people for the job is both a skill in itself and a tricky time-consuming task. Add in a touch of the green-eyed monster over your competitor’s employees and success, you can be left wondering how to achieve the recruitment goals you seek.
As an in-house recruiter, in HR or a senior management role, you’re going to find yourself pondering how best to truly attract and hunt down exceptional talent. For executive roles, this will inevitably mean considering a more unique approach.
May 4, 2018
Choosing to use a headhunter for your recruitment needs is prioritising value added. It’s realising that cost-effectiveness in recruitment is not a short-term goal. Exceptional and true headhunter companies have the ability to power boost your business growth. They have the talent to make recruitment truly pay. So when you are hiring a headhunter for your vacancies how can you get the most out of the relationship?
April 23, 2018
Knowing how to find a headhunter for a vacancy can seem pretty confusing. How do you know that you’re getting the service you really need? How can you be sure that your chosen recruitment strategy actively adds value to your business? As an in-house recruitment manager, you have that responsibility on your shoulders.
The reality is, simple though it may be, that you can’t just type ‘find a headhunter’ into your search engine and know you’re getting exactly what you need. Firstly, you may not be identifying a headhunter at all, but rather a recruitment agency using the headhunting term to cash in on the headhunting reputation. Knowing how to find a headhunter for a job is instead more about knowing what process of recruitment you need.
April 10, 2018
Does Industry Experience Matter? How Hiring Someone from a Different Sector can Help Some Businesses
Hiring the right employee depends on a plethora of factors. We tend to have our tick list of things to look for when hiring employees. High on the list is usually relevant industry experience. Whilst undoubtedly this is essential for some roles, we’d argue at times that this can become restrictive, and in fact mean you miss out on the dynamic talent which will contribute highly to your business success. It’s not your usual approach to hiring the right employee, so why does it work?
March 26, 2018
What are headhunting firms, exactly? Well, that’s a great question, because you need to know how to sort the wheat from the chaff if you’re to get the best recruitment success. By success, we mean talent acquisition that isn’t simply a body in a role but a critical driver of your achievements. The problem is that many chameleons state they are headhunting firms when in fact they are anything but. So, how can you know the pros from the con men?
March 13, 2018
Step inside a modern day secondary school and you’ll discover the pupils know all about goal setting. They may find it tedious, but goal setting in education is recognised as driving “value added”, and a focus for success. The same applies to our careers. We can’t just throw our mortarboards of success up in the air and amble onto a successful career without focus and drive. How can you expect to reach a destination when you haven’t even planned the route?
February 23, 2018
In our post ‘How to Get Headhunted’, the onus was on what you could do to be noticed by a headhunter. However, how can you make the most of your relationship with a headhunter, how can you cultivate it, and how can you ensure that the effort benefits you in the long-term? Is there such a thing as headhunters for job seekers? Or do they only look out for the employer?
February 13, 2018
A question we’re often asked is ‘How do I get headhunted?’ or ‘what does being headhunted mean?’ This is a question frequently levelled at us because we don’t work in the same way as recruitment agencies, or indeed in the same way that many headhunters do. Whilst we do, of course, use candidate databases to a degree, they are secondary to our primary endeavours. We do what our name says – we hunt. So how to get headhunted means how can you be found? How can you flag up on the radar and improve how to get noticed by headhunters?