It’s the holiday season – which means fewer candidates, fewer available clients and roles… Less work. The perfect time to get educating! This way, you’ll be prepared for September back-to-business. After all, the market is ever-changing and if you don’t keep up, you’ll sink. Recruitment blogs are not only a unique source of information but also a way you can pick other industry sharks’ brains. This is why outside of making placements and sourcing candidates, it’s important we educate ourselves and keep an eye on what’s happening in the industry. And what better way to do that than by reading what other recruiters are talking about or getting hot tips from recruitment writers first-hand?
To make your job even easier, we put together a set of 6 blogs that every recruiter in modern days should know by heart:
How to Assess the Value of Top Recruitment Job Boards
The recent increase in the price of job boards has been a talking point for the industry. If you haven’t had to adjust your budget to reflect these extra costs yet, you might be forced to do so very soon.
But cutting off one of your strongest channels could hurt your flow of candidates. So before you make a decision, it’s worth evaluating the ROI of every job board you use. To help you out, we put together 4 great ways of evaluating your job boards: In this blog, you’ll learn how to make the best decision and not lose money on the way!
4 Simple Ways to Get Your Job Board Ads Noticed
Looking for a way to not spend millions on job adverts within the overbearing inflation? Look no further! This blog will tell you everything you need to know about creating job board ads that are noticeable, which will lower your spending in no time.
The rising cost of job boards has become one of the most talked-about topics in recruitment this year with the increase in prices affecting agencies and recruiters worldwide. Big players in the job board industry have increased their fees (rumoured to be by as high as 300%), forcing recruiters to reassess and refine the way they rely on these platforms. The good news is that there are ways to upgrade your job board ads to ensure they sit at the top of every job board search and pull in applicants.
5 Ways A Bad Recruitment CRM Can Lose You Money
For our more technology-hungry recruiters, this blog will be a perfect holiday read. After all, we want our CRM to be rock-solid and ready for the upcoming September business. No place for dead data or messy talent pools!
It’s no secret that recruitment CRMs are the best thing that’s happened to the industry since way back when we used filing cabinets to store all our CVs (!). But all too often, we see recruitment teams falling behind the competition because they’re using a bad CRM or not using it the way it’s designed for. If you can relate to any of the situations below, your CRM might be causing more problems than you think!
How to Engage Passive Candidates in Your CRM
The candidate shortage was the number one obstacle recruiters had to overcome in 2021 and this year is no different. As the candidate-driven market stretches on, the demand for talent remains high, making this a hugely profitable time – but only if you've got candidates to fill your clients' roles!
To combat the shortage, 54% of agencies surveyed said they intend to reengage passive candidates from their existing database this year. This blog is a roadmap to help you do just that times – you might not even realize what gems you’ve got hiding in there.
Here Are The Best Times to Post on Social Media
Whether you’re a marketer managing several social accounts, or a recruiter trying to work your channels around filling roles, we all know how hard posting the right social media content at the right time can be. But these days 79% of candidates use social media to look for roles, so if you want your job ads, and branded posts to get maximum exposure, you need to master the best times to post. The good news is, that this blog will tell you everything you need to know about posting at the right times on social media – this way you’ll never miss out on an opportunity to recruit from socials!
How to Find New Candidates Using Redundancy Lists
This blog holds the key to 2022 recruitment – when the market is so uncertain and you keep hearing about mass lay-offs, as a recruiter you must start to think about all this talent just waiting to be found! Well, we’ve done it for you. Here you’ll find some of the most reliable redundancy lists for various industries. Take a dive and go after that talent!
