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We’re sure you’re all too familiar with the headaches of the interview process. It’s often time-consuming and frustrating. How many times have you sourced a candidate, set up an interview with them after a promising start, only for your...

So, you’ve screened your candidate, and they’re getting ready for their interview (at least, if they can be bothered to put the effort in!) Now it’s up to them to make sure they’re interview-ready… Isn’t it? Well, it is and it isn’t. Of...

Recruitment companies walk a tightrope. Set your fees too high, and you might scare away business; set them too low and you won’t break even. That’s why learning to negotiate with clients, and learning how to manage rate increases, is absolutely...

So: you’ve found the perfect candidate. They have the skills, they have the experience and they’re raring to go when it comes to interviews. Brilliant! But as you know, you’re never immune to a let-down, even if the candidate seems completely...

As customers, even as marketing professionals, it’s easy to miss the importance of newsletters. Picture your own inbox: you probably get quite a few, but how many do you really click through on, let alone engage with? Odds are, not that many....

LinkedIn is a unique and amazing solution for recruiters. Through one easy to use platform, you have access to a massive market of entry level applicants, career-ladder-climbing pros and industry leaders… All in one place. So doing everything...

Reference checks and background checks are two of the key elements you’ll use as a recruiter, no matter where you work. But what you might not realise is that now with the advent of better and better tech, the art of reference checking is getting...

Cold calling is difficult whether you’re in sales or in recruitment. Of course, it’s a little easier to ‘sell’ the idea that you’re offering a candidate a sweet new job- much easier than trying to sell them a vacuum cleaner! Even so,...

No doubt you will have seen and read plenty about CRMs, whether you’re in sales, marketing or recruitment. But HR and staffing firms have been relatively slow to adopt CRMs, no doubt because they’re most useful in sales and marketing. But...