One of the biggest challenges facing HR today in 2013 is effectively orienting a new recruit for their first day in a new job. I remember starting a role in the past where on my first day I was plonked in front of a PC and given a myriad of bewildering manuals to read. Straight away [...]
Category: Client, Human Resources, Recruitment
Tags: HR, new employee, new recruit, Onboarding
There is a common misconception that the majority of people move jobs simply for a financial gain. Whilst this may be true with some mercenary footballers in England’s top league, it isn’t always the case for your average Joe on the street. Last week we looked at the five reasons why time and time again [...]
Category: Client, Human Resources, Recruitment
Tags: HR, Onboarding, Recruitment, Talent
It’s a damning statistic that nearly 60% of all new executives leave within 18 months of starting a new role. So what can be done to increase the chances of new employees succeeding when they join a business and why aren’t organisations taking a closer look at the factors that make their employees succeed or fail? In [...]
Category: Client, Leadership, Recruitment
Tags: Employees, HR Toolkit 2012, Onboarding
Style vs Substance Can it really be only a year since Jedi Jim hypnotised us with his Gaelic charms and the mad professor from Back to the Future somehow blundered his way to victory? It’s time to settle down for another 12 weeks to watch our favourite business idiots attempt to sell coal to eskimos [...]
Category: The Apprentice
Tags: Interviews, Onboarding, Online Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, The Apprentice
Time. We could all do with more of it. Lack of time is currently costing companies a great deal in wasted resources and rushed recruitment decisions. It’s not just the obvious costs. A lack of time is also creating a range of hidden costs that only become clear in the long-term. With activities ranging from staff retention issues to [...]
Category: Recruitment
What’s at the core of successful recruitment? Recruitment covers a huge range of activities. From exit interviews to onboard training to staff retention issues. It’s a broad spectrum. Recruiters need to be able to respond to many different challenges, cutting across legal, personal and professional arenas. But what actually lies at the core of successful recruitment [...]
Category: Recruitment
Addressing pain at the bottom of the recruitment funnel When you’re looking for a new member of staff it’s all too easy to focus on the top of the recruitment funnel. This is the stage where you select where you think your perfect hire might be hanging out, which job boards or offline advertising you [...]
Category: Human Resources
Tags: Onboarding, Staff Retention
Addressing pain at the middle of the recruitment funnel. Most recruiters will know how to approach their own unique recruitment funnels (the process of advertising your vacancy to the right candidates, through to selection and hire). Yet a well established recruitment funnel also means well established challenges. Nowhere is this more true than for the [...]
Category: Human Resources
Tags: Onboarding, Staff Retention
Addressing pain at the top of the recruitment funnel If you’re a recruiter, dealing with challenges comes with the territory. But when challenges affect every stage of the recruitment process, it’s probably time to address the HR pain chain. The first stage at which recruiters commonly have problems is right at the top of the recruitment [...]
Category: Human Resources
Tags: Onboarding, Staff Retention
Is your recruitment funnel turning into a pain chain? Are you finding that yourrecruitment process causes more problems than solutions? If you find yourself dealing with issues such as exit interviews, average salary queries and onboard training rather than your overall recruitment strategy, then you may need to stop and think. Here are three signs that your [...]
Category: Human Resources
Tags: Onboarding, Staff Retention
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