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 ...
If you’re responsible for your small business’ recruitment, then the chances are that you have at least considered using social media to attract and source talent. But without understanding how and why you should use social media when recruiting, you could just be wasting valuable resources. In fact, one of the most frequently asked questions we he ...
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 ...
Dear member, According to the Telegraph, the latest industry figures show that only 6% of the UK engineering workforce is female: unchanged from 2001 and an increase of just 1% since 2008. Yet in a field that advances every day, it’s critical for businesses to continue reading
Forget witches, goblins, ghosts and ghouls this Halloween. At webrecruit, we thought we’d get down to the really scary stuff. Delving into your deepest and darkest fears, we’ve been on a quest to find out what you think is the scariest job out there. Without continue reading
Small businesses that are looking to recruit staff will naturally, in common with larger enterprises, want to use sourcing techniques that work – perhaps with the assistance of an agency such as webrecruit (http://www.webrecruit.co.uk). Another thing that small and large enterprises have in common is continue reading