Talent Acquisition

Top 5 Recruiter Lies (and How to Avoid Them)

It is time for an honest look at the top lies recruiters tell candidates. Obviously, most of the statements recruiters make are true and crucially important when communicating with candidates, even when they need to withhold certain information. By and large, recruiters are honest and upfront with job seekers and many genuinely care about every […]

What Clients Look for When Hiring a Staffing Agency

In the interest of understanding opportunities for improving the screening and hiring process for candidates, whilst keeping up with staffing industry trends, it is important to gain insight into different perspectives by asking: “What do clients look for when hiring a staffing agency?” It is essential that staffing agencies do a periodic check on what […]

Hiring for Attitude, Training for Skill

What do companies like Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton, and Zappos have in common? They hire for attitude and train for skill. It is a simple mantra, but one that has a profound impact on how to successfully recruit and select new employees. Hiring for attitude is about building a distinctive workplace culture and company brand that, […]

Improve Recruitment: 5 Tips for Better Efficiency

For some small or midsize companies that are busy with their day-to-day operations, recruiting can get pushed to the back burner. Others are constantly recruiting but see lacklustre results. Either way, it’s important to constantly improve recruitment strategies, especially in a tight labour market. Whether you are an in-house recruiter or work independently, you may […]

How to Improve Your Company’s Website Recruitment

Your company’s website design plays many roles: shop window, customer service portal and advertising board, to name a few. It is also a recruitment tool where many job seekers go to learn more about your organisation. They want to understand your company’s values, purpose, and culture – in other words, your employer brand. Here are […]

How to Conduct an Interview Using Strategic Questions

As the world of work is changing — constantly reorganising, fragmenting, and requiring market re-conceptualisation – your hiring strategies also need constant updating. You must have strategic interview questions as well as internal questions to ask candidates to see if they have the attributes you need to grow your business and adapt to constant change. […]

How to Write an Interview Invitation Email

You have read what feels like countless CVs and finally have your list of potential candidates. Entering the interviewing phase of the recruitment process can be both exciting and a little daunting. It requires additional time, effort, planning, and a lot of discernment. Step one, though, is getting your chosen applicants in the door for […]

Looking to Hire Graduates?

An effective graduate recruitment strategy is a cost-effective way to grow. Whether you’re opening up a Graduate Scheme, or are looking to tap into educated talent, making the right hire can be tricky. Monster has launched a new site to attract graduate candidates: monster.co.uk/graduates We give them advice, information, support – and directing them to […]

Diversity - The Unrealised Potential of Workers with Disabilities.

Monster recently provided advice for the student ‘career corner’ at City College Peterborough: This guest blog post from Assistant Principal Tasha Dalton-Winterton highlights that workers with disabilities still face stigma in entering the workforce: At City College Peterborough – Study programmes, we work with and support young people to educate them with the skills and […]

Use These Six Values To Build An Effective Employer Brand

Your recruitment process needs to speak to the values that motivate good candidates. Monster has been working with behavioural scientist Richard Shotton, including in our recent webinar “Applying Behavioural Science to Recruitment“. Richard’s research shows candidates are most strongly motivated by extrinsic values, rather than simply intrinsic values like salary. You can read more about […]