Hope and Expectation: How do you manage it?
Hope and expectation are two of the strongest emotions that will form part of a job applicant’s experience. As soon as a candidate lands on your job posting, browses your website or engages with...
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The Economics of Candidate Experience
At the 2014 CIPD Conference talk was yet again about how “HR needs to be more commercial”. At CareerGift we think that means proving how HR can directly impact revenues, costs and profits in...
Richard Branson discusses good candidate experience
When was the last time you heard a CEO talk about the importance of candidate experience? No, me neither. However, Richard Branson is an exception with most of what he has done and achieved....
All candidates are applicants, but not all applicants are candidates
That seems to be the current mantra in the world of recruitment. Is that true? And if so, does it really matter anyway? Or are we just splitting hairs? “Put yourself in the candidate’s...
Email epidemic – you can’t have your cake and eat it
When was the last time you didn’t check your email in the evening or weekend? We now live in a very different world that existed before the internet, email and social media created a...
The future of recruitment technology
Plenty of office technologies have come and (pretty much) gone in my lifetime. Think fax machines, floppy disks et al. Now let’s come closer to home. What do I think the future holds for recruitment technology? Job...
