How SMEs Can Compete with Larger Firms to Hire Top Executive Talent: 5 Effective Strategies For small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs), hiring top executive talent presents a unique challenge. Large companies dominate the executive recruitment landscape with their ability to offer higher salaries, expansive benefits, and globally recognized brand names, all of which make […]
Impact of working from home on gender equality and the steps you can take to change it Gender equality is an essential condition for an innovative, competitive and thriving economy. In business, politics and society, we can only reach our full potential if we use all our talent and diversity. Gender equality brings more jobs […]
Resilience training – why your business needs it Resilience is a term that gets bandied about a lot in business. But what is it exactly? Does your company have it? And if not, does it need it? Let’s take a moment to zoom in on this oft-discussed (yet sometimes misunderstood) quality. How do you […]
One of my pet gripes is hearing, from a company’s hiring manager, something along the lines of, “We are like a family here”. Whoah. Let me stop you there. A company is not a family. Conflating the two is unrealistic – and can be dangerous. How so? Well, within families, loyalty and love are unconditional. […]
The global pandemic forced new ways of working on almost all of us. Companies had to quickly adapt to the very different dynamic of remote working – offices became deserted overnight, while employees created makeshift desks at home. All of this proved a sudden and major disruption to our working lives. But we adapted fast, […]
Having an effective employment branding strategy in place can greatly improve a company’s recruitment efforts, an article on Accolo reports. And with negative employee criticism now able to spread rapidly over the internet, this has never been more important than in today’s digitally-focused world. The job market is now also particularly “candidate-driven,” the article states; […]
Hiring is set to increase in the coming year, but human resource (HR) funding is expected to stay the same. Unsurprisingly, this trend is likely to force HRs to “do more with less,” according to Paul Petrone from VoiceGlance, writing on Business2Community. He believes that the cost-of-hire shouldn’t be a priority concern for recruiters. It […]
Tracking employee turnover is something that every business should prioritise. We came across this statement while reading a blog by OfficeVibe growth manager Jacob Shriar the other day, and we couldn’t agree more. He believes that companies must not only monitor this metric, but also do everything possible to reduce it. Turnover can place a […]
In an age of artificial intelligence and chatbots, the personal touch still reigns supreme. It seems that the closer we err to a wholly technological world, the more we crave human-to-human contact. This may seem like a strange assertion given that the impact of tech is growing, but people will always need each other. And […]
In today’s market how we attract and engage with potential talent has broadened. Ranging from internal recruitment teams, referral schemes, owner networks to social sites and maintaining partnerships with recruitment or executive search firms to name but a few. Whatever your preferred approach more so now than perhaps ever before businesses are being judged not […]
Jefferson Locke have teamed up with Fiona Wilson to look at health and happiness in the marketing industry. We’re running a series of workshops to discuss mental health and wellbeing. You can find details of these workshops on our website and social media channels. Or just get in touch via LinkedIn. Alongside these workshops, we’ll […]