The UK has witnessed a phenomenal rise in cyber attacks and security breaches in recent months. The shift to remote working has essentially created a larger attack surface for increasingly sophisticated cyber attack techniques. According to Hiscox, one small business in the UK is successfully hacked every 19 seconds.
Recruitment agencies are particularly susceptible to breaches due to the sheer volume of personal data they sit on. Here are four of the top things recruitment agencies can do to strengthen their security:
- Topic:
- Recruitment
Designing your recruitment website for a smartphone rather than a desktop is a business-critical decision. But don’t confuse mobile responsive with mobile-first - there is a big difference, particularly when it comes to results.
According to the Ofcom Online Nation 2020 report, 71% of all measured time spent online was on smartphones. While 35% of internet users accessed it only via a mobile device. For recruiters of even greater significance is that according to Indeed, mobile devices account for the majority of job searches for most occupations.
Here’s why mobile-first recruitment websites are the ultimate conversion tool and the key numbers to bear in mind when you are thinking about your mobile recruitment website project.
- Topic:
- Recruitment
User experience and functionality make a big impact on the success of your recruitment website ensuring it a revenue generator. Is your website helping you win new clients, as well as attract candidates? Is it converting visitors to applications saving you money on job boards?
Here’s 5 of the most common areas why recruitment websites fail and where they may not be delivering the best return on investment.
- Topic:
- Recruitment
The healthcare sector is historical - meaning it has a backlog of challenges. It’s also huge, so its challenges are vast and ever evolving. As an incredibly important part of the public conversation there are always changes and new developments that require recruiters to adapt and evolve quickly. In a 2015 government report it was anticipated that two million new workers will need to be trained and recruited into the sector between 2012 and 2022. As we approach the end of that time frame, and with new political promises to recruit even more nurses into the NHS, things are ramping up for healthcare recruitment agencies. However, significant challenges remain regarding attrition, onboarding, attraction, rates management, payrolling and software struggles.
Below we lay out some of the ways Access Recruitment CRM is designed to specifically help recruiters place contract and temp workers with ease and efficiency.
- Topic:
- Recruitment
Every industry brings its own specific set of recruitment challenges; however, the healthcare sector is arguably one of the most difficult to recruit for. Changing legislation, patient needs, protocol, high risks and outdated systems all mean that placing candidates into healthcare roles isn’t always a straightforward process. The industry also comes with a historic difficulty to attract and retain skilled workers. According to Health Business, the essential challenge remains ‘getting the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time to meet service and patient needs.’
This leads to enormous pressures on healthcare recruitment agencies, as they try to place a backlog of workers into the healthcare system to meet the demand and need of hospitals and trusts. Below we’ve outlined some of the major difficulties of healthcare recruitment and what you can do to combat them:
- Topic:
- Recruitment
There is always one person in the office who, when a conversation about excel is happening, pipes up, ‘I love excel spreadsheets, they’re so much fun.’ It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, or what kind of office you’re in, there is always that one person. You’re then left muttering under your breath while doing your best to ignore them and oddly enough, when you do ask them for help with your excel spreadsheet there’s always some bug or ‘never seen before’ error that prevents them being actually helpful.
We’re pretty sure that this has been the story in recruitment agencies across the land for decades. The recruitment industry has had a long love affair with the spreadsheet and, despite new technology, has clung on to excel with a stubborn resilience. If your agency is still using spreadsheets, it’s good to understand how it might be holding your business back, and why it’s not a long term solution.
- Topic:
- Recruitment
