Case study: From candidate to client – Neil Cook, Head of IT at Autoglass®
identifi helped match Neil with his role of Head of IT at Autoglass® – in early 2017. Neil’s recruitment experience with identifi was more personable, reassuring and collaborative than with the other recruiters he’d worked with previously. So it was only natural that when he was ready to recruit for his new team,…
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EXCLUSIVE: Santa’s CV revealed
OK, so, we shouldn’t really be doing this because our candidate CVs are highly classified and we treat data security with utmost respect BUT…it’s Christmas, and this is the gift that keeps giving. We were trawling through our filing cabinets the other day, looking for a contract, and this beaut fell out from behind one…
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5 New Year’s resolutions for the recruitment industry
Recruitment is easy to do badly – and it’s being done increasingly badly. According to a report by Clearly PR, 4,529 new recruitment businesses opened in 2016, and another 900 joined them in the first month of 2017 alone. As Forbes contributor Liz Ryan puts it, anyone who collects CVs and shares them with contacts…
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Scaling up recruitment, cutting time to hire by 70%: Autoglass BodyRepair Case Study
How do you scale up Auto Technician recruitment to find skilled talent on a countrywide basis, without losing control of the process? That was the challenge facing Patrick Dignan, Customer Experience Director at Autoglass BodyRepair. As part of the business’ drive to consolidate Autoglass BodyRepair’s position as go-to choice for UK vehicle repairs, Patrick and…
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New year, new you: four ways to get your CV 2018 ready
The New Year is often time for a new start. In London alone, six out of ten people spent January 2017 looking for new jobs. And nationwide, by the end of the month, job applications had grown to 75% above the daily average. The sheer number of people looking for a fresh start means increased…
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5 ways to increase your chances of getting a pay rise in 2018
With the looming uncertainty of Brexit, government austerity at full throttle and rising inflation, whether you work in the private or public sector, wages in the UK are stagnating. According to analysis by the TUC, UK ‘real wages’ (pay adjusted for the effects of inflation) were predicted to fall by 0.5% between the start of…
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