When it comes to staffing, many businesses are faced with a difficult decision: should they hire temporary or permanent employees? Each option has its own set of pros and cons, and it's important to weigh them carefully before making a decision.
Apr 14, 2023
10 Tips for Finding the Perfect Temporary Employee
When it comes to temporary staffing, finding the perfect employee for the job can be a time-consuming and difficult task. Not only do you have to sift through countless resumes and interview candidates, but you also have to consider factors such as skill level, availability, and compatibility with your company culture.
Mar 15, 2023
The Gig Economy is Here to Stay
The gig economy, also known as the freelance economy, is a growing trend in the labor market. It refers to a model where workers are hired on a short-term, contract, or freelance basis instead of being offered permanent employment.
Nov 28, 2022
What are the types of recruitment?
Recruitment is the process of finding suitable candidates to fill in vacancies at a company. Recruitment can be carried out either internally or externally, using direct or indirect methods.
Nov 21, 2022
What is the role of an HR recruiter?
The role of an HR recruiter is to attract potential employees and match them to positions within the company. It’s a time-consuming and expensive process, so it’s important that the right candidates are identified at the early stages.
Nov 14, 2022
What is direct recruitment?
Direct hiring refers to when companies hire employees directly without the use of third-party staffing agencies. There are both positives and downsides to this approach - read on to find out more!
Nov 09, 2022
What are 5 recruitment strategies?
The only way to grow your business is by hiring the right employees. That's why we've created this list of five recruitment strategies that will help guide you through the process.
Nov 07, 2022
What is the difference between HR and recruitment?
Recruitment focuses on finding new employees, while HR focuses on maintaining the relationship you have with them once they join your company. If you're not sure which one would be best for your business, this article will help!
Nov 02, 2022
What are the 7 stages of recruitment?
The process of recruitment is a long and complicated one, but it is important to remember that each step in the process can make or break your chances of finding the right candidate!
Oct 31, 2022
How do you handle difficult situations at work?
At the workplace, we have to face many different issues and situations. It is important to be able to handle these difficult times at the workplace to succeed.
Oct 12, 2022
What Does Full Cycle Recruiting Mean?
Full-cycle recruiting is a process of finding and hiring the ideal candidate for a job vacancy. It's a holistic approach to hiring that involves all steps in recruiting, beginning with sourcing talent and ending with on-boarding new employees. The most important aspect of full-cycle recruitment is matching candidates to the right position within a company, which saves everyone involved time and money.
Oct 05, 2022
How to Justify Hiring Additional Staff
Simply said, hiring new staff is costly. Onboarding, training, equipping — all these mean cost and it’s important for any business to be able to justify this cost. The ROI won’t come immediately, so you need to be able to project this down the line. To do this, you need to articulate the benefits of having more manpower, whether it be higher efficiency, faster production or improved overall wellbeing. Here are some tips on how to go about it.
Sep 28, 2022
How Do You Attract New Employees?
In today's economy, it's tough to attract new employees. Factors such as salary, company culture, perks and benefits all come into play when you want to grow your workforce. Here are some concrete suggestions on ways you can make your company stand out from the crowd and get new blood in the door.
Sep 14, 2022
What Other Jobs can Recruiters Do?
Recruiting can indeed be a very fulfilling and rewarding career. At the same time, it’s not rare for recruiters to find themselves overworked due to high turnover in their industry and underappreciated for all of their work. If you're feeling overwhelmed or unfulfilled by your recruiting job, don't be afraid to pivot! There are plenty of other jobs that recruiters can do as well as many transferable skills from day-to-day tasks that they can apply elsewhere—like social media skills or researching candidates.
Sep 01, 2022
What is RPO recruiting?
When you think of recruiting, you probably imagine in-house recruiters at a company tasked with hiring employees. But there's another way to do business: Hire an outside agency to manage all or part of your employment process, including sourcing candidates for open positions, pre-screening them and even making offers on behalf of your company. This is called Recruiting Process Outsourcing (RPO).
Aug 08, 2022
How to Improve Staff Training
We all know that a good staff is the foundation of any successful organisation. But how do you ensure that your staff are trained to the highest standard and motivated to learn? It's not as difficult as you might think! Here are some handy tips on how to improve your company's training programme.
Jan 05, 2022
Where to Recruit Salespeople
The best salespeople are a mix of outgoing and introverted, but they always have that one thing in common: They're persistent. If you want to find your own top performers, you need to be creative about how you recruit them. Here are some ideas for sourcing the best salespeople for your team!
Dec 06, 2021
4 Must-Have Features In A Timesheet App
The digital age is well and truly here, and it's time to meet temporary candidates where they are - on their phones. But with countless timesheet and rostering apps out there, what's most important? We've done the research for you.
Nov 01, 2021
Top 5 HR Tasks That Leading Agencies Automate
Are you bogged down in admin work, spending hours trying to fill each job and follow up with placements? Discover how you can utilise the power of technology to do the busywork for you, and give yourself hours back to build real connections with clients and candidates.
Aug 02, 2021
Why TikTok Will Grow Your Recruitment Agency
In the saturated recruitment market, are you doing everything you can to stand out to candidates? Up and coming platforms like TikTok could give you the edge.
Jul 05, 2021
Balancing Act: How To Protect Your Candidates' Down-Time
In the digital age, how do we keep up with the never-ending list of tasks and the constant sense of urgency, without blurring the lines between work and home? Tech could be the answer.
Jun 01, 2021
3 Steps to Recruitment Success
Want to know how to supercharge your temp desk? We discuss recruitment expert Sophie Robertson's tips from her new book, Secrets to Running a Lucrative Temp Desk - and throw in some real-life strategies.
May 03, 2021
Give Young Talent a Chance
The new generation is here - why do students and young people make the perfect temporary employees? How can you find them?
Mar 01, 2021
We Let Our Clients Access Our Candidates
Why on earth would we let other agencies contact and book our temp staff?! Find out how using Scissors for this feature has actually skyrocketed our revenue.