The ‘magic formula’ of success in the recruitment industry

Simona Iancu

The staffing and recruitment industry is rapidly expanding in 2017 following a few difficult years caused by the economic downturn....

Recruitment process

How to add more flexibility into your hiring process

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri

Don’t you hate it when you have a whole list of candidates to pre-screen, but when you call them, all...

Recruitment process

Bringing smiles in hospitality recruitment

Walter Hueber

Did you know that the hospitality sector employs 12 million people in the EU? According to Eurostat, the tourism industries...

Recruitment process

What type of recruiter would you like to be?

Sandhna Chintoe

Whilst delivering workshops for recruiters on how they can implement video technology into their hiring process, I often get asked:...

Recruitment process

Dealing with unconscious bias in diversity hiring

Simona Iancu

Having a diverse workforce in terms of gender, race and ethnical background is becoming increasingly important for all companies. Focusing...

Recruitment process

Hiring for cultural fit: 3 tips for success

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri

The concept of cultural fit as a critical element in the hiring process has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. While education, skills,...

Recruitment process

Need for Speed: 3 tips to increase recruitment efficiency

Niddia Paauwe

With organizations seeking opportunities for growth and job markets heated up again, both demand and competition for qualified talent have rapidly...

Recruitment process

Time to get organized with your job interviews!

Walter Hueber

The job interview is still the most popular selection tool when hiring new employees. Not much has changed over the...

HR Technology

“I have a box full of HR Tech toys, want to play?”

Mark Vasse

Last week I followed a thread on Linkedin on a disappointed candidate who never heard back after his many CV...

Candidate Experience

How video recruitment can help you improve candidate experience

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri

With the recruitment landscape rapidly changing towards a candidate-led market, providing a good candidate experience is more important than ever...

Candidate Experience

How to make sure that your candidates see the value of pre-recorded video interviews

Simona Iancu

The truth is that pre-recorded video interviews seem unnatural. Talking into a camera is nothing like speaking to a person...

HR Strategy

Workplace gender parity | It’s time to close the gap!

Niddia Paauwe

Workforce diversity and equality are gaining more and more momentum over the last decades. Significant gains have been made when...

Innovation

Scaring off job candidates with a ‘gutted’ HR Infrastructure

Walter Hueber

The market for HR Software and Tools is estimated to be around 14 billion USD and growing every year with...

Video interviews

There is no point to video interviewing. Is there?

Mark Vasse

“I only meet candidates face to face” I heard the last time I talked to a recruiter in the public...

Candidate Experience

From flattery to frustration. Where headhunting is going wrong & how to fix it

Simona Iancu

Recruiters are under a lot of pressure to get great candidates and they simply have to go chase after those...

Video interviews

Video-powered hiring | An introductory to video recruitment

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri

Having a tough time selecting the best candidate for your company? Have you hired the wrong person for the job?...

Recruitment process

Breaking the bad: 5 tips to prevent bad hires

Niddia Paauwe

A strong, competitive and balanced workforce is at the heart of every winning organization. In order to build and maintain...

Recruitment process

Why a job interview should not be an interrogation

Walter Hueber

I recently had dinner with a good friend who is a police detective and regularly has to interrogate criminal suspects...

Recruitment process

The Deep Blue… Recruiting Sinkhole

Mark Vasse

Every once in a while, searching for exotic new travel destinations, Google presents me ‘spontaneously’ with pictures of the 10...

Video Recruitment

If you value your candidates, use video interviews. Here’s why.

Simona Iancu

When I talk about video interviewing, oftentimes recruiters point out to me that they value their candidates, so they prefer...

HR Strategy

What Online Shopping teaches Recruiters in 2017

Walter Hueber

It’s that time of year again. Having left the stress of year-end behind us, we plan for a new, fresh...

HR Strategy

The recruitment challenges of today

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

The recruitment industry has completely evolved over the past 20 years. New technologies have transformed the way employers recruit and...

Candidate Experience

Maximize Hiring Success: 5 Tips to create a winning Candidate Experience

Niddia Paauwe

Are you treating your candidates in the same way that you would treat your customers? The candidate experience is an...

Video Recruitment

Why Personality Trumps the CV

Walter Hueber

What are we exactly looking for in a candidate when recruiting for our team? More and more we see that...

HR Strategy

The Invisible Candidate

Mark Vasse

A man wearing a hat, dark glasses and his head and hands completely covered with bandages, arrives at the local...

HR Strategy

How technology can help us hire the talent of the future

Simona Iancu

The most innovative businesses today aim to re-empower their employees to think and act like entrepreneurs. This means that the...

Recruitment process

Why phone interviews don’t (always) work

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

Working in the HR software space for the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of having great clients in...

Video Recruitment

Q&A with recruitment solution provider HelloFlex

Niddia Paauwe

We believe in an open, integrated and collaborative business model where we can add value based on our core expertise,...

Innovation

Implementing HR Technology: 4 Tips for Success

Niddia Paauwe

HR Technology is booming. According to Deloitte and Bloomberg, the entire HR software market is now worth over 15 billion...

Recruitment process

Why HR Tech Integrations should be as easy as building with LEGO

Walter Hueber

The reality in todays’ HR Technology landscape is that there is an abundance of tools, solutions and software available to...

Video Recruitment

My first blind date and what it taught me about job interviews

Mark Vasse

I look at my watch. Hmm, only 20.30. Where is the coffee I ask myself. “Yes” I hear myself replying to...

HR Strategy

Measuring recruitment performance: Why ‘Quality of Hire’ should be your number 1 metric

Niddia Paauwe

Living in the age of big data and workforce analytics, we see performance measurement processes being applied in nearly every...

Recruitment process

Why you will conduct ever more job interviews

Walter Hueber

The job interview is a key element in the recruitment process to select the right candidates for the job. It...

Candidate Experience

How to woo your candidates in the selection process – 5 tips to improve candidate experience

Simona Iancu

Congratulations! You have succeeded in creating a strong employer brand that attracts the best talent. You now have your pick...

Video Recruitment

Can’t recruiters and hiring managers just get along?

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

In the world of recruitment there are two major stakeholders in the process (excluding the candidate, of course), the recruiter...

Mobile

Recruiters – “Go mobile or go home”

Walter Hueber

More then half of the world’s population has a phone. In Germany three out of four people owns a smart...

Recruitment process

How to recognize recruiting that’s beyond its expiration date

Walter Hueber

The supply of recruitment technology is sometimes mind blowing. Developments follow each other in an ever-accelerating speed bringing you more...

Video Recruitment

Busting 4 common myths about video recruitment

Niddia Paauwe

Video recruitment is rapidly gaining momentum across sectors and geographies. With more and more companies creating hiring success stories using...

Video Recruitment

Why Video and Assessments are a Perfect Match

Simona Iancu

Technological advancements are gradually changing the way we interact; Skype, Google Hangouts and Viber are setting the norm for social...

Video Recruitment

Why Skype is not the Right Tool for Video Recruitment

Jessica Weber

The HR sector is continuously turning its back to the traditional recruiting process where on-site interviews were the solution for...

Recruitment process

How to Select for the (Soft) Skills of 2020?

Walter Hueber

I have to admit that I had totally missed the “Future of Jobs Report” from the World Economic Forum this...

Candidate Experience

The candidate era has started. How do we stay ahead?

Niddia Paauwe

Whereas until recently the recruitment market was driven by a scarcity of vacancies, today’s recruitment landscape has flipped and is...

Video Recruitment

Trends in Retail Recruitment: The “Speed Dating” Approach to Interviews

Simona Iancu

When it comes to hiring new employees, recruiters in the retail industry are facing a series of unique challenges. Most...

Recruitment process

Why hiring managers need to walk the talk

Walter Hueber

Almost all job openings anywhere start with a hiring manager wanting to replace a team member or to expand team...

Recruitment process

How important is mobile in recruitment?

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

Having been in the HR technology industry for a while, I am often confronted with opposing views on just how...

Recruitment process

“Best Place To Interview” vs “Great Place to Work”

Walter Hueber

Every year top lists are published on the “Best Companies to Work”, “Great Place to Work” and the like, both...

Video Recruitment

Q&A with staffing and recruiting software provider Carerix

Niddia Paauwe

We believe in an open, integrated and collaborative business model where we integrate our innovative video recruitment solution with other...

Recruitment process

Don’t fear change. Fear your out-dated hiring process

Niddia Paauwe

Driving change in your organization from the back seat An organizations ability to be agile and innovative is vital to...

Recruitment process

Why recruitment funnels all too often end in traffic jams

Walter Hueber

The recent image of a 100KM traffic jam on the expressway from Beijing (China) was truly impressive. We are talking...

Social

Being personal while being professional

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

A colleague and I were recently discussing some interesting LinkedIn profiles that we’ve come across in our time. I’m no...

Recruitment process

Using technology to humanise the recruitment process

Alberto Gonzalez Otero

There is an increasing debate around if we are humanising or dehumanising the recruitment process by using technology. Almost everyone can...

Recruitment process

Hiring for personality. Meet the person behind the CV!

Niddia Paauwe

Recruiting the best talent for your organization is never an easy process. There are so many things to consider when...

Recruitment process

How to reverse the global trend of longer hiring processes?

Walter Hueber

Employer review portal Glassdoor recently published an interesting study titled: “Why is Hiring Taking Longer”. Average interview processes have grown by...

Video Recruitment

Q&A with recruitment software provider Greenhouse

Niddia Paauwe

We believe in an open, integrated and collaborative business model where we can add value based on our core expertise,...

Recruitment process

How will job automation affect recruiters?

Walter Hueber

More and more we come across articles on the automation of jobs. They seem to give a semi-coordinated warning signal...

Recruitment process

Video interviews: the closest to a face to face you can get

Alberto Gonzalez Otero

There is no better way to find the best talent than conducting a face to face interview with each good...

Recruitment process

International Recruitment: why engaging with candidates across borders is more important than ever

Niddia Paauwe

Our modern world is becoming seemingly smaller by the day. Globalization has created a market that is increasingly dynamic and...

Recruitment process

Why not to recruit the egg-laying wool-milk-pig

Walter Hueber

I recently came across the German expression of the impossible: “Eierlegende Wollmilchsau” (freely translated into “Egg-laying wool-milk-pig”). Not sure why...

Video Recruitment

Having an interview this weekend?

Alberto Gonzalez Otero

It is Thursday! Weekend is already around the corner. The interview time is coming! Did you know that a good...

Video Recruitment

Taking the guesswork out of recruiting

Niddia Paauwe

No matter the size of the company, having a workforce that meets the company’s needs is vital for an organization’s...

Recruitment process

Recruiting? Stop asking for experience, focus on potential

Alberto Gonzalez Otero

97% of companies recruiting for a job vacancy require having “x” number of years of experience working in the same...

Video Recruitment

Tourism & Hospitality recruitment; selecting the best talent by adding personality to the CV

Niddia Paauwe

Today’s global Tourism & Hospitality industry is extremely dynamic. Increased competition, shifting economics and emerging markets have resulted in a...

Recruitment process

Why some employers still “Interview like it’s 1999”

Walter Hueber

When speaking at events on the topic of video in recruitment, I regularly show a video from The Armstrong and...

Recruitment process

Keeping the human in a technology driven recruitment world

Niddia Paauwe

Our modern world is ever-evolving and so is the way people are being hired. New technologies and a wide-range of...

Recruitment process

Meet all your candidates face to face

Alberto Gonzalez Otero

Let’s put it this way. You are a recruiter. You receive hundreds of applications per vacancy. You have an ATS...

Candidate Experience

The emotional recruitment process

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

At a recent HR event, I spoke with an attendee that had years of experience as a recruiter. He said...

Candidate Experience

Video interviewing candidate preferences

Niddia Paauwe

In the quest for a more efficient and reliable recruitment process, technological developments offer organizations new opportunities in selecting and...

Candidate Experience

From Customer Experience to Candidate Experience

Alberto Gonzalez Otero

Recently, I decided to make a twist in my career and leave the company I was working at for almost...

Recruitment process

Recruitment Cost vs. Value of Hire

Walter Hueber

Last week I was invited to join a discussion panel at the In-House Recruitment Expo in London. The panel was...

Recruitment process

Recruitment in 2015

Niddia Paauwe

We want to take this opportunity to wish you a great video-powered recruitment year and thank you for your continued...

Recruitment process

Eliminating Bias in Recruitment

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

Working in video recruitment, I am often confronted with the concern “doesn’t video interviewing increase the likelihood of bias and...

Technology

Recruitment technology adoption

Niddia Paauwe

In our modern and ever-changing world, new technologies have helped upgrade the way job candidates are being hired. The development...

Recruitment process

Is your recruitment process hurting your innovative business strategies?

Niddia Paauwe

Organizations that want to create a basis for long-term success need to make sure their company is able to innovate...

Recruitment process

Be Creative in a Crisis

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

In 2008 I was a bright-eyed bushy-tailed sales representative at an American IT reseller. It was a rather memorable year...

Recruitment process

Free-range working or interview wherever I roam

Walter Hueber

More people are saying goodbye to the traditional view of the workplace or work itself. The Internet, mobile computing and...

HR Strategy

Graduate recruitment: how to select the best talent in a competitive market

Niddia Paauwe

Organizations that want to create a basis for long-term success need to make sure their company is able to innovate...

HR Technology

Using technology to strengthen recruiter and hiring manager relationships

Niddia Paauwe

The relationship between recruiters and hiring managers has always been subject of ongoing discussions in the HR world. As recruiter...

HR Technology

Abundance of Choice in the HR Technology Ecosystem

Walter Hueber

Last week Cammio exhibited at Zukunft Personal in Cologne. The audience and exhibitors are primarily German, however, it is by...

Technology

Technology Reluctance in the Workplace

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

This is a topic that really resonates with me. Having spent most of my career in the digital and tech...

Recruitment process

Employee Turnover

Vanessa Garro-Peeters

There is a noticeable difference in commitment from the adults of my parents generation and my own. I suppose this...

Recruitment process

Generation Intern – the entrance to a career path

Walter Hueber

The Economist recently published an article early September on “The Internship”. It paints a picture of a growing contingent of...

Recruitment Strategy

Social media in recruitment

Niddia Paauwe

With the emergence of social media, the way we interact both personally and professionally has forever changed. Where candidates once...

Recruitment Strategy

Retail Recruitment: challenges and solutions in a fast changing industry

Niddia Paauwe

Hiring in retail is rising again after a few years of decline due to a lack of consumer spending and...

Video Recruitment Benefits

Why video interviewing will improve your hiring process

Niddia Paauwe

Regardless of the current economic climate, the average number of interviews is increasing as staffing moves more towards temporary staffing...

Hiring Best Practices

Only half a minute for a first impression

Walter Hueber

For decades, research has indicated that it only takes us 30 seconds to get a dependable first impression and is...

Employer Branding

Using your employer brand to attract the best talent

Niddia Paauwe

Employer branding plays a major role in today’s recruitment process and enhances a company’s ability to attract the right talent....

Candidate Experience

What does the modern candidate want?

Niddia Paauwe

Companies who are putting the candidate experience at the heart of their recruitment strategy, are best positioned to gain a...

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