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.
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?
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...
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