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Recruitment 2020 – how to ride the trends to success

January 24th, 2020 · RecruitSoSimple

There’s been a vast amount of change in the recruitment industry in the past decade, and no sign of these changes slowing down. In fact they seem to be accelerating. So how can recruitment agencies ride the crests and avoid the troughs? The best recruitment CRM builds resilience in recruiters as well as in placements […]

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2020 – the vision for recruitment

January 14th, 2020 · RecruitSoSimple

APSCo (The Association of Professional Staffing Companies) says that the number of recruitment companies in the UK has increased by 500% since the turn of the millennium. It’s an astonishing figure – even given the short life of a reasonable percentage of recruitment start-ups – so why the massive growth? 1. There isn’t universal agreement […]

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Volatility and dishonesty: what recruitment software must contend with in 2020

December 23rd, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

Employment turbulence and recruitment agencies Hong Kong and the UK are experiencing similar recruitment problems – for somewhat different reasons. Hong Kong’s democracy protests have had a huge effect on business activity and a recent survey shows that 84% of those who took part believe their business has been negatively affected. In addition, more than […]

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Cost-per-hire and back office: areas that trip up recruitment agencies

November 24th, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

Understanding cost-per-hire (CPH) is vital if any recruitment consultancy is to master and improve its internal metrics. Cost per hire includes all the financial expenses that relate to successful recruiting for a role: travel, fees, advertising spend, time etc. but doesn’t include induction and training costs. If costs per hire are too high, there are […]

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Transport and travel – the recruitment industry faces 2020

November 8th, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

Transport and driving – the challenges ahead A recent American study of recruitment in transport shows that the impact of the Internet of Things is substantial, and the problem for recruiters is equally weighty. 82% of those who responded expect their transport workforce to increase in 2020 – and 79% expect that to be a […]

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Recruitment: from slavery to digitalisation

October 28th, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

At Recruit So Simple we’re rarely surprised by anything we see in the recruitment industry, but every so often we come across a story that completely blows our minds. And this is one of those: The Global Slavery Index says that Malaysia has 212,000 slaves – and pretty well all of them are domestic workers. […]

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Brexit pangs and LinkedIn pledges

October 14th, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

Two major recruiting companies have posted results that show the negative impact of Brexit uncertainty on recruitment in the UK. Applicant tracking system UK wide information shows that many firms have put hiring on hold. The supposed deadline 31 October, bad as it was for UK recruiters, may not even end the confusion as the […]

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What recruiters can learn from Homeland Security

October 2nd, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

It’s not every day that we get an insight into the hiring algorithms used by government organisations, but just this week, the US Homeland Security Department’s Chief Information Officer John Zangardi gave away some of their recent system designs. As all SAAS recruitment agencies know, the algorithms that shape decisions are a vital component of […]

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Google search, payroll fraud and financial adviser recruitment

September 25th, 2019 · RecruitSoSimple

As 23 European job search sites write to the European Competition Commissioner complaining that Google’s online recruitment tool is ‘a lever to dominate yet another online industry’ other online recruiters are adjusting their web-based recruitment software to cope with the new Google offering. The complaint is that Google’s job adverts appear above the websites of […]

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