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.
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?
What’s the secret to attracting gold-dust candidates?
Tech sector employers are often fiercely competitive over candidates, so what can we learn from EKM, a small web company in Lancashire that claims it's more difficult to get into than Oxford and does not publicise roles?
Half of job candidates sold an ‘unrealistic dream’
Research from pre-hire assessment start-up ThriveMap has shown that 48% of employees have left a role because it wasn’t what...
How inviting feedback can drive a positive candidate experience
It’s no secret that poor candidate experience can be harmful to an employer’s brand, but many organisations don’t know where...
Recruitment process outsourcing: the future is ‘total talent’
Employers are battling economic uncertainty but still struggle to source much-needed skills. In such a volatile jobs market, what role...
Most jobseekers think recruitment agencies unnecessary
More than half of workers believe recruiters do not have a positive input in the hiring process, according to research...
Google launches Hire into the UK recruitment market
Google has now launched its recruitment application, Google Hire, into the UK hiring market.
First launched in the US in...
RAD Awards 2019 winners: Pink Squid take Work of the Year for Capgemini campaign
Recruitment advertising agency Pink Squid won Work of the Year tonight at the RAD Awards 2019 for its “Active Inclusion”...
City employers used 2018 to tie down talent before Brexit
Banking, financial and professional services companies used 2018 to “tie down” talent before the 2019 Brexit leave date, according to...
Does Google for Jobs signal an upheaval in recruitment marketing?
When Google for Jobs launched in the UK last year, recruiters warned it would disrupt the online jobs market. Despite...
‘Ghosting’ in recruitment: a growing candidate trend
In the world of modern dating, few things leave the sting of confusion and despair as much as being ghosted....
