Online and Tech Recruitment
The way employers find people keeps changing. Job boards, LinkedIn, social media, AI screening: there’s more tech in hiring than ever, and not all of it is worth your time.
This guide looks at what actually works online, where the technology helps, and where it just adds noise.
10 Great Ways to Use LinkedIn to Transform Your Recruitment
If you're not using LinkedIn to find and attract top talent, you're missing out. With over 700 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is the largest professional network on the…
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Top 10 Tips for Writing the Perfect Job Description
Searching for your next best hire? Reel in job-seekers by writing a role description that is compelling, concise, and provides enough information to hook them. Start finding the…
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The Pros and Cons of AI in Recruitment
Artificial Intelligence has been finding a place within the recruitment processes of more and more companies. With the potential of cutting down a recruiter’s extensive admin work and…
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How to Reduce Stress in the Digital Workplace
New technology has completely transformed the workplace over the past few decades and new tools to improve our performance and efficiency are being developed at an ever increasing…
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Using Social Media Smartly While Hiring
We came across an interesting article from SHRM.org recently, which looked at how to use social media smartly when hiring. Below, we have summarised accordingly.
Read articleKeeping Recruitment Moving with RevView Video Interviewing
Business-as-Usual It is currently Business-as-Usual at RR. We already champion flexible working, as such we have the full infrastructure in place to support a full remote switch. This…
Read articleDigital Recruitment – How to Recruit the Right Positions in a Digital Business
The number of new tech start-ups increased by 60% last year. To put it another way, a staggering 10,016 programming and software development businesses were launched in the UK in 2017. Of course, an organisation is only as good as its people so when it comes to digital recruitment, which roles should these businesses be aiming to fulfil?
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3 ways LinkedIn can improve your recruitment strategy
As a platform, LinkedIn is the one that most recruiters and HR professionals don’t use to its full advantage. It’s a platform that has so much potential to find the perfect candidate for the role you are hiring for. We’ve put together three tips to make sure you are using LinkedIn.
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The Top Ten Words to Avoid Using in your CV
CV clichés are a real thing, as analysis which aimed to uncover the most frequently used words in more than 1.1 million UK resumes, recently revealed. Words which actually have the opposite effect of making you stand out from the crowd – instead making you blend in with the rest of the ‘highly motivated individuals’.
Read articleHow Older Workers Can Prosper in the Digital Era
As the population continues to get older and the pension age is pushed back, the influence of older workers will continue to grow in the modern workplace. But are companies doing enough to train their older workers in the digital skills that they need to do their jobs?
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Werk: The New Job Platform for Women Seeking Flexible Work Opportunities
Female empowerment is a hot topic at the moment, as is flexible working which remains one of the most desired perks. Due to this, a new job platform Werk has arisen and is the centre of much media attention because of its ability to encapsulate both in its advertised positions. It’s also gained significant seed funding as investors back its premise.
Read articleGoogle for Jobs to Introduce Salary Estimates in the US
Frustratingly, Google for Jobs is not yet available to job seekers in the UK. It makes the recruitment headlines frequently however and the industry is excited about how it might be able to improve the job seeker’s journey - but still, we wait with baited breath for a UK launch date!
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The Latest in HR Technology: Google’s Cloud Job Discovery Enters Beta
We wrote not long ago about some exciting new recruitment technology emerging from none other than Google itself – Google for Jobs. In a nutshell, this clever tool employs machine learning to better aid the entire online recruitment industry - from job boards to job seekers and online recruitment agencies such as ourselves.
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Valuable Lessons from Summer Jobs & High Vacation Technology Use
We’re (supposedly) in the heat of British summertime! August is quiet for many firms as employees take their annual summer vacation. But it seems we’re not unwinding as we should. We’ve taken a look at the technology that workers take away with them as well as strong lessons today’s employees learned from their years working summer time jobs.
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Time is Money: Speeding Up the Online Recruitment Process
The average time to hire remains high with a 2016 report from Insights.Dice.com pitching this at just over 26 working days for professional and business services roles, 25 days for technology roles and a national average of 29 days over all roles. The monetary implications of an unfilled position or a hire that doesn’t work out can mean the cost of hiring escalates into the tens of thousands of pounds. At RR, we’re specialists in bringing this cost down and have some helpful ways in which companies can do the same.
Read articleFacebook Jobs: Updates and Opinions of the Live Feature
We reported not long ago on Facebook Jobs and the pros and cons of it during its testing in contrast with LinkedIn. There have been new reports on it as it has since gone live in the US and Canada, and we’ve got the latest updates in addition to how we anticipate it might impact online recruitment.
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Facebook vs. LinkedIn: The Potential Jobs Battle
TechCrunch reported recently on a new Facebook feature being tested with the potential to impact LinkedIn’s dominance in the online recruitment space – Facebook Jobs. It could be a scary prospect for the professional giant, but with the two platforms sharing fundamental differences, we look at precisely where we think a potential clash might occur.
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A Timeline of The Gig Economy
With Uber making headlines after the landmark decision against it awarded two of its employees the right to The National Living Wage, sick pay and holiday pay, the world of HR has much to say on the ruling. The implications on the Gig economy in particular are feared and with the world of work changing so rapidly, we’ve taken a look at when it all started and how the increase in small scale entrepreneurship is affecting recruitment.
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How The Internet of Things is Impacting Today’s Workplace
Internet connectivity is no longer limited to computers and phones and its rapid move into the everyday is opening up new opportunities for organisations – and their staff.
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Game On: Gamification in Recruitment
Gartner Group defines gamification as “The concept of employing game mechanics to non-game activities such as recruitment, training and health and wellness”.
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Technology and Employment: Top Five Ways Tech Has Changed the Job Market
As the first truly online recruitment agency, we at RecruitmentRevolution.com understand the importance of developing technologies in the world of recruitment, as well as the workplace in general, and the wider relevance of new technology to the world around us. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the top five ways technology has changed employment, and what we can expect for the future.
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Digital Defamation: How to Protect from Negative Social Media Comments
The successful growth of social media has enabled many businesses to engage their client base in exciting and innovative ways, whether it be through their brand or via their employees' personal online connections. However, with so many notable cases of ex-employees posting defamatory comments to their social media accounts, how can businesses protect themselves?
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Mobile Recruitment: How it Benefits Candidates and Agencies
The world is now officially mobile-mad and many parts of daily life have been successfully translated into easy-to-use apps, including some that are recruitment-related. Here, we discuss how mobile is taking the recruitment industry by storm, who it benefits, and ways in which recruiters can adapt their skills to keep up!
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Google the Great: What You Can Learn from the Best Place to Work
Working for Google has become synonymous with fun, creativity and exciting environments, with each of their offices full of quirky designs and employee perks. We take a look at why Google is still voted the best place to work and why employee freedom inspires productivity.
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App’ll Do It: Top Recruitment Apps for 2015
2015 is set to be an app-tastic year, with millions of useful applications now gracing our smartphones for a huge range of activities. However, we wouldn’t be the contemporary recruitment agency we are if we weren’t up to date on the excellent new job searching apps that are making waves in the recruitment industry…so here goes.
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The Go-To Guide to Recruitment: The Best Places Employers Can Advertise Their Jobs
With a huge influx of new recruitment techniques gaining momentum in recent years – from social media to startups - we’ve compiled a go-to guide of the best places employers can advertise their jobs.
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Why Leaders Love LinkedIn: Top Tricks for Attracting Talented Employees Through LinkedIn
LinkedIn has become the most popular and well-established professional network available, and is a top way to get a brand or business noticed by other likeminded companies. As a recruiting tool it has seen marked success but some businesses are unaware of the ways in which it can be utilised to search out top candidates. Here, we look at how to implement some digital techniques for attracting talented employees through LinkedIn.
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Phoning it In: Facts About the Rise in Mobile Job Searching
We are part of a changed society, one that has developed a love affair with all things tech. From our smartphones to our tablets, we are a mobile generation who use our various gadgets to help live our lives on the move. Recruitment site Indeed.co.uk released an infographic which tells us that a huge number of people search for jobs almost exclusively online. Here, we look at why and how mobile technology is changing recruitment.
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Getting the Most out of Google: How Better Knowledge of Search Engines Can Help Recruitment
Google and other search engines are a staple of everyday life. Long gone are the days of sifting through an encyclopaedia to find the answer to your random question; now the term ‘just Google it’ is the answer most people give when given an unanswerable query! But are we using Google to its full potential, and how can we use it to find a candidate or job?
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The Best of Tech: The Top Five Technology-Based Companies Emerging in the UK
The tech industry is one of the biggest business sectors to emerge in recent years and companies involved in this sector are becoming some of the most sought after places to work…
Read articleGovernment’s Universal Jobmatch Website in Furore over Bogus Vacancies
The Government's Universal Jobmatch website has tongues wagging in the recruitment industry after an investigation concerning apparent false job vacancies was conducted by the Department of Work and Pensions. Channel 4 News made the allegations against recruiter Mark Coward which have been followed up by the DWP; here we look at the investigation so far.
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BranchOut: How the New Facebook App Could Aid Online Recruitment
Trying to get the younger generation excited about work and job prospects can be a hefty task, particularly in the face of an economic climate that’s still not fully recovered. Facebook has recently decided to combine its youth-friendly reputation with a more professional veneer and has introduced a recruitment app called BranchOut. Here we look at the pros and cons of this new app and how it could potentially help dispell the old-fashioned nature of job hunting, bringing it forward to the next generation.
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How to Make Your Online Job Ad Attract the Perfect Candidate
Finding the perfect candidate starts right at the beginning; with making sure your job advertisement attracts only the best people for the job. The trick is making your advert speak to the right person, which in the digital age of 2014 means putting extra effort into communicating a compelling reason why they should apply.
Read articleCareer Insight: What is a Video Interview?
We came across an interesting article from RecruitmentBuzz recently, which looks at the trend for video interviewing. Below, we have summarised accordingly.
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Top Grades for Google in Fortune 100 Poll
“Great Place to Work” has run its annual workplace survey studying Fortune 100 working environments around the world to come up with their final list of the best companies to work for.
Read articleSome Opting for Online Recruitment over Traditional Methods
According to the Freedom of Information Act, millions in funding have been slashed from newspaper-based job advertisements by local authorities in Scotland. These figured indicate a considerable change from traditional recruitment for jobs to online methods. Some councils are abandoning submitting job advertisements to newspapers completely.
Read articleHiring without the traditional agency fee
Recruitment Revolution sits between doing it yourself and paying a traditional agency 15–20%. A fixed fee, a proper service, no percentage.