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How to make the most of recruitment agencies

By TM International

Hiring is difficult for everyone concerned. The average job seeker sends their CV out in all directions, only to sit waiting for feedback. On the other side of the spectrum, Employers spend hours analysing mountains of CVs, struggling to find a good match for their position. It has been estimated that between 7 and 20% of the salary for a position can be spent trying to fill it and that this process tends to take around 30-45 days. Solving these problems is just where recruiters come in. Able to find out exactly what both employers and job seekers are looking for, recruitment agencies are in the position to hugely speed up the hiring process. So how can you really make the most of a recruitment agency? And what should you take into consideration before choosing one? Continue reading

Candidats, attention : les recruteurs vous « googlisent »

Par Corinne Zerbib dans La vie du Labo 

Une auxiliaire de puériculture qui expose son goût pour les drogues illicites sur un forum, un chirurgien qui apparaît en photo sur Facebook lors d’une soirée visiblement débridée, une infirmière qui expose sur son blog ses opinions politiques extrémistes et haineuses … Quelques clics suffisent pour tout savoir sur les candidats à l’emploi. Continue reading

Your Onboarding May Be Teaching Your New Employees to Be Cynical

By David Lee

The title of this article comes from a conversation with a senior-level HR professional who demonstrated a level of awareness that many employers seem to lack about their onboarding process.

We were talking about their need to upgrade their onboarding, and she was describing her concerns about the effects of a poorly executed process.

While she listed the typically cited negative costs of sloppy onboarding — increased turnover, longer time to productivity, etc. — she hit on one of the biggest prices employers pay for a shoddy, sink or swim, unwelcoming onboarding process:

You take someone who is initially excited and even starry-eyed about working for you, and rapidly turn them into a cynical, skeptical, eye-roller, who does not respect or trust management and their employer. Continue reading