In recruitment, staying motivated when everything’s going your way’s easy. It’s the slogs, the quiet bits, and the runs of bad luck that threaten your motivation. So here are 4 TED Talks designed to get you fired up, anytime you need to be.
100% is probably slightly lofty. But structuring your cold emails in a slightly different way could result in an above average response. This article looks at the dos and don’ts of reaching out to different audiences for the first time.
It’s tough to find one agreeable source of clarity on the state of recruitment today. There are plenty of dissenting voices, ours included. And so the challenge becomes cutting through the noise. We went to the Recruitment Agency Expo in Birmingham last week. Plenty of free merch, product demos, and keynotes flying about. I went to as many talks as I could, and felt like I came away with a pretty decent snapshot of where the industry’s at currently. And where it’s going.
Talking about running a business and actually doing it are two very different things. And if you were to make the leap, you’d want a pal jumping with you. I went to meet Craig Davies at Orbis Consultants in their WeWork office in Aldgate. Craig co-founded a digital, tech, data and FS agency alongside his friend, Wayne Hilditch.
Social Listening’s one of those phrases that’s been creeping into the workplace more and more recently. What does it mean? Should you even care? Isn’t this just another buzzword for comfy recruiters to chuck around? Or is it a concept you should – nay, must – take advantage of before the end of 2019?
If you’ve moved markets, companies or pay grades this year, there’s the fun pressure that comes with planting your flag and making hay while the sun shines. Which is fun. Until it isn’t. Then it’s just pressure. And a lot of it. No bueno.
Corporate Social Responsibility’s nothing new. But since acronymising the phrase, it’s been companies preferred way to give a little back. And let’s be honest, from a marketing perspective it’s absolutely priceless.
Jolt’s known as “the business school for the self-made”.
A lot of their students are high performing, Type A, entrepreneurial folk. People with a lot on their plate who don’t just tolerate pressure, but thrive on it.
There are plenty of parallels between Recruiters and entrepreneurs, not least that both lead lifestyles which should make them more susceptible to burnout.
We went to an event organised by Hunted legend Nina Gordon, Marketing Manager at Jolt, to learn how to battle it.
A black swan event’s an unpredictable scenario. One which no one saw coming, but through the benefit of hindsight appeared inevitable.
Ever heard of the Recruiter’s Hazard Perception Test? Highly unlikely, considering we made it up. But would you pass it?
