This page is a collection of recruitment articles that we have found interesting and relevant to the current situation. The subjects include recruitment practices, recruitment consulting, recruitment training, running a recruitment agency, finding clients, finding candidates.
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step at a time - Hays promotes healthy workforce Thirty-three teams of staff at Hays, the UK’s leading specialist recruitment company, have embarked on the 2009 Global Corporate Challenge (GCC), in support of the largest employer health initiative in the world ...more |
| Global
employment survey finds Chinese job market showing signs of recovery A quarterly survey of hiring and firing trends in over 30 key countries has found job prospects for professionals and managers in China better than the global average...more |
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Are you liable for
temporary workers? Employment and recruitment agencies must protect themselves against legal liability for accidents that occur whilst placing temporary workers...more |
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A Real Alternative To Job
Boards Sometimes when something is popular and successful for a long time it becomes a defacto standard, or something that is just accepted, no questions asked...more |
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Candidate Overload? With many more candidates applying for each vacancy, the challenge facing many agencies today is simply how to manage the huge volume of CVs without getting swamped by applicants all chasing the same post...more |
| How to Hire Employees
Safely Much of your business growth depends on finding the right people to staff your expanding organization, ....read more |
| 5 Common Hiring Mistakes Your hiring process, like other systems in your business, is about creating consistent, predictable results. ..read more |
| Three Simple Recruitment
Tips 1. Build a searchable database....read more |
| Employers nurture their talent to save costs Economic downturn forces employers to focus on cost effective human resources (HR) strategies....read more |
| Have Your Recruits Got the X Factor? How can you identify star talent and discover who really has what it takes?....read more |
| Recruitment,
dating sites the most engaging in SA The most engaging South African websites and sectors, as measured by average time per session, are recruitment and dating sites, according to Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company.......read more |
| Why
Trim The Ends Off Your Roast You may have heard about the new wife who was making her first roast (ignore the stereotypes - it's an old story).........read more |
| Talent
Management to become key differentiator for companies competing in global
marketplace Finding talent, developing talent and keeping talent will be the new role of Human Resources (HR) management in the future........read more |
| Meeting
the retention challenge Getting top talent to stay put is about understanding what staff need.......read more |
| SA
firms scramble for skills Nearly three-quarters of SA business are more focused on attracting and retaining staff than a year ago, placing SA above the global average of 59%, a new report showed on Wednesday........read more |
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out of 10 Graduates only search for jobs online - Just 3% scour newspaper advertisements for jobs - 57% spend less than an hour researching companies before interview - 9% of graduates don't do any research prior to interviews......read more |
| CV
discrepancies increasing, says survey The amount of CVs containing discrepancies is increasing, a new study has said.....read more |
| Talent
makes the rules now Pervading local macro-economic issues, such as higher interest rates, fuel price hikes, inflation, political uncertainty and crime, will affect organisational staff attraction and retention in 2008 and beyond.....read more |
| HR
housekeeping desperately needed, finds survey HR Directors question the value of outsourcing, preferring to manage processes in-house, yet struggle to achieve acceptable delivery standards in core functions........read more |
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Skills
shortage - Urban legend or fatal constraint? |
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How
popular is online recruitment in the professional sectors? |
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Technology
Won't Solve Your Recruiting Problems, So What Now? |
| Experience
counts In the next 12 to 24 months, South African businesses that have been struggling for years to make the internet work for them will be celebrating........read more |
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Graduates
favour going online to find their perfect job |
| Sloppy
internal recruitment's impact on company brand
Companies wishing to attract quality candidates should take a good look at their internal recruitment processes if they wish to avoid a poor image in the market-place.........read more |
| Agencies
Victors in Web Revolution The web is having a significant and positive impact on the fortunes of recruitment agencies according to a new study released today.............. read more. |
| Hanging
on to staff There has been a significant rise in the number of organisations struggling to retain their staff over the past year and recruitment difficulties persist, according to a new report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)............read more. |
| Recruitment
process impact on company brand Companies wishing to attract quality candidates should take a good look at their internal recruitment processes if they wish to avoid a poor image in the market-place........read more. |
| Rise
of the Employer Brand Recruitment should be viewed as an extension of marketing and organisations must have clear strategies to market the brand to employees......read more. |
| Web
Savvy SME's The web is having a significant and positive impact on the fortunes of recruitment agencies, according to a new study by thebestof, a national network of local marketing websites......read more. |
| The
Key to Unlocking the Hidden Job Market Where are these "passive" job seekers.....read more. |
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Spending
on Online Recruitment set to increase |
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Only a
Quarter of Organisations Measure Employer Brand Investment |
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Square
Pegs in Round Holes |
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