How to Hire 
It takes time to write a job description, sift through CVs and cover letters, interview candidates, and find the right person for the job. To make sure that hard work pays off it’s important to plan how to onboard, to give your new hire the right support to be successful. A strong onboarding process increases…
Monster recently provided advice for the student ‘career corner’ at City College Peterborough: This guest blog post from Assistant Principal Tasha Dalton-Winterton highlights that workers with disabilities still face stigma in entering the workforce: At City College Peterborough – Study programmes, we work with and support young people to educate them with the skills and…
As restrictions ease, slightly, we start to move out of lockdown. Many companies are cautious in hiring new staff. Much hiring activity has slowed, most employers have postponed any job interviews they had scheduled. We don’t yet know the full effects on our economy. As an employer, you may even have had to fire people….
Your preferred style of interview might be down to personal preference, tradition, familiarity or time in your schedule. Does it help you make the best hires? Finding the “right-fit” is possibly the trickiest part of recruitment. Candidates thrive when they genuinely engage with your company culture as well as having the right skills on paper….
The market is tight, but the talent is out there. Try these strategies to locate and find the best fit for your business. U.K. recruiters know that ease of hiring waxes and wanes. This depends on whether you have easy access to a large pool of workers, or if your vacancy is in one of…
How to attract the right candidates for tech roles.
I’m sure many of us remember the good old days of finding talent for your business. Endless spreadsheets to track applications and correspondence, multitudes of CVs with different coloured highlighter marks on different words and post in notes on relevant sections, CVs piled up under ‘Interview’, ‘Maybe’ and ‘No/Reject’, and once that’s all done you need to summon up the energy to compile a shortlist, juggle diaries, schedule the meetings and write the rejection letters. Easier to close the door and leave it for another day…or a colleague.
Nearly half of all people employed in the UK work for an SME, and yet for businesses of this size hiring can often be a stressful and time consuming .