It seems a little bit of an understatement to say that last year was an incredibly unsettling one for many people and here at Access EarlyPay we've been seeing the results of that.
Access EarlyPay gives employees access to their earned income on-demand, meaning that people have ready access to the cash they have earned, without having to wait until the end of the month.
This means that we have seen the peaks and troughs of 2020 manifest themselves in the different times that people call on their cash and the amount they need.
We’ve created a ‘Review of the Year’ infographic for you to discover the power of on-demand pay, and indeed how useful our users found it throughout 2020. Click below to view it now!
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- Human Resources
Conversations around diversity and inclusion are now firmly and rightly on the agenda for most employers. Diversity equals success in the business world on so many levels, and therefore recruitment companies need to adopt strategies to attract a diverse talent pool that they can evidence to their clients.
Here are a few things to consider to help drive diversity and inclusion for your recruitment agency.
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- Recruitment
With low barriers to entry and not many overheads, around 700 new recruitment firms register a month in the UK with Companies House.
However, only about 20 percent of new businesses manage to get above ten heads and continue on successful growth trajectories which tells us that growing and scaling is the hard part.
It’s easy to assume that as long as you can keep interviewing candidates and putting them into the right companies, then your business will grow; except it’s never quite that simple. As more clients come on board, and more candidates are interviewed, the urgent need for process and structure, systems and culture all begin to creep in and suddenly, it’s a completely different beast and you’re wondering why you can’t scale up.
If you’re suffering growing pains, here’s some reasons why you might be struggling, and some ideas for how to overcome them.
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- Recruitment
The personal finance landscape has changed massively since the beginning of covid with people needing to find ways to cope with multiple lockdowns and dramatic shifts in their lifestyle.
Across the UK we have seen employees dealing with reduced hours, home working and even redundancy and so it is no surprise that there has been a knock-on effect on people’s personal finances. In fact, more than 14.9m people have seen a negative shift in their personal financial situation according to debt charity StepChange.
In this post, we’re looking at the challenges that people have had to face due to COVID and the ways that the personal finance landscape has changed as a result.
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- Human Resources
A recent industry benchmarking survey conducted by Talent Nexus discovered that agencies’ top priorities included reducing costs, filling existing vacancies and surviving the impact of the pandemic.
It’s hardly a shock to learn, then, that email marketing activity has plummeted over the past four months in the severely hit travel, leisure, automotive, and manufacturing industries, but surged in not-for-profit organisations (who can no longer operate face to face) and the online education sector.
We teamed up with Andrew Nicholson, Founder and email marketing evangelist at Kulea.ma, to share his top tips for getting email communications right during these challenging times.
You can watch the full webinar on demand and here are the key takeaways:
- Topic:
- Recruitment
So, you’ve made the brave first step into building your own recruitment agency. It may be around now that you realise that what seemed a simple process - picking up the phone, conducting interviews, making placements and collecting payments – is anything but, once you’re out on your own.
But you’re not on your own. To help you on your journey to building your own recruitment empire, we’ve created a simple mnemonic that will get you thinking about your company’s ethos and plans.
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- Recruitment
You’ve just been given access to your new Volcanic website, or you want to give your current website a re-vamp by choosing some great looking images for it – but where do you start!?
Choosing the right imagery for your website is really important, as it’s the first thing your website visitors will see and can draw them and engage them further.
This blog outlines some tips to help you choose the best imagery for your website so your site visitors get the best possible experience and you increase website conversions – win!
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- Recruitment
To CRM or not to CRM, that is the question. In the interest of an honest and open relationship between us, we’re going to state straight away that we’re not trying to sell you a CRM. But we will help you know whether it’s time to invest.
By now you may have already set your own agency up. You should be pleased with yourself! Under recent circumstances, some might call you brave and some might call you crazy… but you’ve made the bold move and why not.
Whilst we know we have a best-in-class Recruitment CRM that improves our customers ‘productivity and efficiency and consultants love using it, not every CRM provider is right for every business.
So here we will present two sides to the recruitment CRM debate, to help you decide whether your start-up is doing the right thing by making this investment now.
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- Recruitment
With the recruitment sector heavily impacted by the current lockdown, our focus has been first and foremost on supporting our customers and helping them to find ways to adapt or survive.
Now with certain areas of China easing lockdown and some European countries announcing exit plans we know there will be an end. Whilst businesses won’t be the same, our economy will pick up and we must think ahead and be ready for the recovery when it comes.
Whilst our attention has focused on helping customers respond now, these initiatives will also stand businesses in good stead when the market bounces back.
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- Recruitment
Search Engine Optimisation, most commonly referred to as SEO, is the art of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.
So you've invested your time and money in designing and building a website. The next phase is ensuring that this content can be seen and accessed by the audience you are trying to target.
Unfortunately, there is no magic SEO wand. Volcanic, an Access company and global leader in recruitment websites, often encourages clients to think about their website in the same way as a gym membership. If you use all of the gym equipment available to you in the right way, you will soon start to see results. If you don't attend the gym, or use the equipment effectively, you won't see the results you're hoping for. In a similar way, your recruitment website CMS gives you all the tools you need to optimise any content you produce on your website. If you utilise these effectively, you will soon be rewarded with improved visibility and conversions.
So, what is SEO? It stands for Search Engine Optimisation, and in short is the art of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.
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- Recruitment
