#employerbranding

Employer Brand - Is it on Your 'To Do' List?

Most mid to large size companies are aware that employer branding is the hot topic in the talent attraction space. But it is not all about

How to Stop 'Firefighting' & Start Attracting Talent

Even if you only hire 100 people or just 5 people in a year you can do some really clever work and build your employer brand up in advance o

If you are 'Ghosting' Candidates You Ought to Think Twice

If you Are Professionally 'Ghosting' Candidates You Ought To Think Twice Sometimes I find my Talent Attraction passion gets the better of me and I just have to speak my mind. With advances in automating talent acquisition and TMS systems, some Talent Attraction basics have been forgotten about. One of those being common, old fashioned, decency. The rudeness and lack of follow up engagement with candidates, by some in-house talent acquisition professionals and agents, is shock

Why Outsourcing Your TA Function Has Gone By Its Sell By Date & Stinks!

Why Outsourcing your Talent Acquisition team has gone by its sell by date and stinks! If you have been knocking about in the corporate world for a couple of decades you will probably remember the push by big global outsourcing companies to encourage you to outsource critical functions of your company like IT, Accounts, Payroll etc. It was so enticing to think that you could save x amount of money just by passing off such functions to these external experts. Outsourcing took

Agencies - Love Them, Hate Them but you Must Partner with Them

Recruitment Agencies – Love them Hate them but you must Partner with them When Linked In came along TA people were saying that it would be the end of recruitment agencies. But it hasn’t been. Certainly, the percentage share of hires made by good companies have dropped significantly for agencies. Top companies are looking at maybe as low as 1:10 in terms of the amount of agency hiring they need to use to fill roles. Before Linked in that could have been as high as 4:10. Bu