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7 ways to reduce your cost-per-hire

Posted under employer advice, featured on Friday, March 1, 2013 No Comments

Recruiting the right people for your team is a crucial, if not the most important, part in any business. But it doesn’t need to be expensive. And, particularly for small businesses, with limited budgets and fewer staff to manage the hiring process, the process can continue reading

Is your dream candidate in hiding?

Posted under employer advice, online recruitment on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 No Comments

The fact that you are reading this blog suggests that you are looking for the best staff recruitment tips and tricks – and certainly, you would expect recruitment agencies like webrecruit (http://www.webrecruit.co.uk) to help you in hunting out those more easily missed candidates. So, why continue reading

Free Download: The Ultimate Online Recruitment Kit

Posted under employer advice, featured on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1 Comment

Online recruitment offers today’s hiring managers one of the most powerful and cost-effective methods for sourcing high quality talent. By knowing what to use and how to use it, you can design a recruitment strategy that will boost your brand, increase your reach and tap continue reading

How to create a LinkedIn group and attract talent

Posted under social networking on Monday, September 24, 2012 2 Comments

A LinkedIn group is a powerful way to develop your own community and potentially, talent pool. As a hiring manager, if you are looking for new ways to direct referral traffic to your careers site, boost your employer brand and develop new communities – ripe continue reading

Tips for using CV databases to source candidates

Posted under online recruitment, webrecruit news on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1 Comment

As has been mentioned in previous webrecruit (http://www.webrecruit.co.uk) blog posts, effective staff recruitment does not just depend on sourcing candidates who are actively looking for work. That is not because of any deficiency in skills amongst such a group, but simply because adopting such a continue reading

4 out of 5 UK professionals now LinkedIn members

Posted under employer advice, social networking on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2 Comments

News from LinkedIn yesterday announced that the world’s leading professional network now has 10 million members in the UK. The UK is LinkedIn’s third largest member market globally – exceeded only by the US and India. As a hiring manager looking for talent, these new continue reading

A small business owner’s guide to candidate sourcing

Posted under employer advice on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 No Comments

Smaller businesses often don’t have an HR department or even an employee who is solely responsible for recruitment. Often, it comes down to the owner of the business to manage candidate sourcing in order to grow the company. At webrecruit (http://www.webrecruit.co.uk/), we provide employers of continue reading

4 ways to improve the quality of your CVs

Posted under Business advice, employer advice on Monday, August 20, 2012 No Comments

What is your biggest challenge when filtering incoming applications? We asked hiring managers what their largest challenge was when it came to selecting applicants to interview. An overwhelming 80% of respondents started it was the quality and quantity of CVs that was holding up their continue reading

Creating your employer brand: how to transform into an employer of choice

Posted under Business advice, employer advice on Monday, August 20, 2012 6 Comments

Do you know how your brand is perceived by your ideal candidate? In a market where hiring managers are tasked with delivering more for less, it seems businesses who neglect to identify new candidate attraction techniques – such as developing an employer brand – could continue reading

Recruitment Survey – Reserve Your Copy

Posted under featured, general on Sunday, August 12, 2012 No Comments

Recruitment trends and challenges report webrecruit is conducting research into the recruitment challenges hiring managers face in today’s market. The employment market is tough, and businesses face a range of hurdles when it comes to selecting the right person for their teams. To better learn continue reading