Candidate experience
Engaging with candidates for job vacancies is a key element of employers’ candidate-attraction strategy. The process of engaging with candidates is often referred to as the “candidate experience”.
Employers should strive to develop good relationships with all applicants who are engaged in the candidate-attraction process. It should view the attraction and recruitment process as another product or service that the organisation provides to a group of customers, in this case potential employees.
Personnel Today Awards 2019 shortlist: Innovation in Recruitment
The Personnel Today Awards 2019 take place on 19 November. Here we round up the contenders for the Innovation in...
Personnel Today Awards 2019 shortlist: HR Supplier Partnership Award
The 2019 Personnel Today Awards take place on the 19 November. In a series of articles profiling all our finalists,...
Personnel Today Awards 2019 shortlist: Employer Branding Award
The 2019 Personnel Today Awards take place on the 19 November at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane....
Seven ways to create an awesome candidate experience
Despite many employers making efforts to improve their candidate experience, some still fall short on the simplest aspects. Lee Biggins,...
Should salary history questions be outlawed?
Ending employers' ability to ask candidates about salary history could help tackle gender and ethnicity pay gaps but how best to achieve this?
Poor recruitment processes can damage brands
Research into recruitment experiences has underlined the potential damage caused to brands by negative processes
Jargon puts off half of graduate jobseekers
Half of UK workers are put off applying for a role because of jargon in a job description, according to...
Goodbye to HR tech, hello recruitment consumerisation
With technology transforming the way we attract, engage and inspire potential hires, Adam Shay explains why keeping up with the...
Guide to inclusive recruitment
PROMOTED | Inclusion is a key issue for any recruitment professional, but how can you make sure your business is doing all it can to attract, and retain, a wide-range of talent?
How recruitment technology can help boost social mobility
The causes of poor social mobility are deep-rooted and complex, but that doesn’t mean employers can’t do more to attract...
Three things recruiters can learn from the viral Radisson Red job advert
A bizarre job advert calling for “creatives” to apply for a role at a hotel chain attracted plenty of online...
How to attract the candidates who don’t think you need them
Software company Sage needed to expand its candidate pool for a slew of new roles. Reaching out to groups who...
How the RAF can add wings to your HR career
With fantastic benefits and low costs for trainees, the RAF offers people an excellent opportunity to gain confidence and skills...
Young people critical of lack of diversity and social mobility
Two-thirds of young people feel they have to conceal or change who they really are in order to make a good impression and find a job at many businesses.
How chatbots improved Yodel’s candidate experience
Introducing chatbots for recruitment has helped slash candidate drop-out rates and average time to hire at delivery firm Yodel. How has this been achieved?
