It was recently announced that more than a quarter of small companies planning to increase headcount by more than 5% in the remainder of 2013, it would seem the tables are finally turning for the small business owner. The last few years have proven a struggle as a number of small businesses have been forced to shut up shop and join the army of unem ...
If you’re responsible for your company’s customer service recruitment, then you’re probably not immune to the deluge of applications hiring managers often have to sift through when advertising such roles. Take Webrecruit for example. Last month alone we received an average of 70 applications per customer service role. That’s a lot of CVs to sieve ...
Is your company in a highly specialised market? If so, then you are likely to be able to recall more than a few headaches recruiting staff. At a time when even those employers in non-niche markets can encounter skills shortages in their candidates, finding the right man or woman who possesses certain rarer skills and experiences can be overwhelming ...
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 be costly and be a drain on resources. Here are some of our top tips to ...
When inundated with too many CVs, screening candidates during the hiring process is not only time-consuming, but can also become an extremely tedious and drawn-out task. But now there’s a solution. Starting with high tech companies, the use of automated online video interviewing has taken the recruitment industry by storm as a growing number of emp ...
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 into new talent pools. To help you hire the best this year, webrecruit has put ...
New Year – a time of reflection and renewed commitment to do better for ourselves. For many, it’s a time to consider the steps needed to get the job they really want. So where do you begin? With competition for jobs at an all-time high, many wish that they could step inside the mind of a hiring manager to find out exactly what they need to do to ge ...
As the name behind the UK’s first fixed fee recruitment model, webrecruit has paved the way for a new type of hiring: one that reduces recruitment spend and makes talent accessible to everyone. Transforming recruitment is what drives us. It has done since we established in 2001, when we made a bold move by breaking away from the traditional r ...
From retail, hospitality, leisure and transport to healthcare, recruitment, call centres and more, customer service plays prominence in nearly all businesses across every industry. But ensuring you have the best customer services team can be tricky. Despite the high volume of job seekers looking for continue reading
Technology has done so much to change the staff recruitment landscape. The first surge in popularity of online job boards was met with huge positivity by many recruiters, who all of a sudden found themselves with a bank of readily available candidates. The online staff continue reading
Frustrated by the lack of feedback from recruiters? Want to know why you keep applying for jobs that don’t really exist? And why are you put forward for positions your skills clearly don’t match? These are just a few of the issues I hear job continue reading