What Recruiters Need to Know About Mobile Threats

Whether you work for a recruitment company or are part of a HR department, chances are you don’t work solely on a PC or laptop. Staying in touch with clients and candidates outside the office is commonplace, and distributing access to data with consultants and contractors means the scale of your attack surface is ever-increasing.

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The Future of VR in Recruitment

With the emergence of virtual and augmented reality technologies, it seems that science fiction is losing the fictional element. The primary uses of it have so far been mostly entertainment, it has applications in the operation of companies or businesses.

It can entirely change how both employees and customers interact with businesses. One area which can benefit massively from this is recruitment. Be that the initial stages of recruitment to employee onboarding, there are some clear benefits to be seen.

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Innovative Skills to Learn at Home

The constant technological advancements and discoveries happening in the world have caused the way we work to drastically change. A study by McKinsey Global Institute revealed that almost half the current jobs carried out by people have the potential to be automated by currently existing technology. This makes it clear that developing and practising innovation skills is key to thriving in this new world of work.

Innovation is much more than just inventing. Innovation is all about finding ways and places to add unique value. This involves being able to unlearn, relearn and master new skills. It also involves engaging others in a deeper, more humanistic, and passionate level.

This article will explore various innovation skills that can be developed at home to help you achieve the skill-set, mindset, and tool-set necessary to keep up to date with the changing times.

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Important Ways on How to Improve the Relationship with Remote Workers

With the development of technology and modern means of communications, businesses have gotten an opportunity to expand their talent pool by including remote workers amongst their ranks. Regardless of whether those employees are from the neighboring city or a different state, this digital age allows us to have real-time communication so that even the smallest of details can be relayed. For entrepreneurs who are uncertain about how to go about integrating remote employees into their office teams or those that wish to improve their relationships, here are a few pieces of advice.

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AI Recruitment Hacks

6 Little-Known AI Recruitment Hacks You Can Use to Hit Your Hiring Targets

As a recruiter, the process of finding the right candidate is a long one. From writing the right job description to posting it on the right portals and recruiting the right candidate who will be the perfect fit in your organization is a tough job. Leveraging artificial intelligence will make the recruitment manager’s job easier, thus making the hiring strategy efficient.

Here are the plus points of AI in recruitment

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How is Candidate Screening Changing?

How is Candidate Screening Changing?

The big four accountancy firms; PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte and KPMG receive thousands of applicants every year. It is common to have in excess of 100 applicants for each hire that is made. The high volume of applicants per job presents these companies with numerous hiring challenges including time to hire, filtering the candidate pool and removing biases. The big four are not alone in facing these challenges either as many other employers also boast significant application figures.

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4 Practical Tips for Cyber Security in Recruitment

4 Practical Tips for Cyber Security in Recruitment

Today’s businesses are all under attack from cyber crime. Some attackers are looking for your confidential information or a healthy ransom. Others are just looking to cause as much destruction as possible – often with an irreversible impact on your operations.

The recruitment sector is more exposed than most. It’s not just that recruiters handle masses of personal data from client details to names, addresses, national insurance numbers and more. It’s that the information you hold is a crucial tool in everything from sourcing candidates to billing customers.

Worse, the average size of a recruitment team means that cyber security budgets are limited. That’s why the pressure is on consultants themselves to help security efforts.

Here are four simple things you can do to stay secure.

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5 Reasons Your Recruitment Company Needs To Be Using Video

5 Reasons Your Recruitment Company Needs To Be Using Video

Digital video is undeniably the most powerful and popular communication medium on the planet so far. So popular that 60% of people would rather watch online videos than watching television, according to Google.

But the demand for online video content hasn’t plateaued yet – it’s still on the rise! In fact, 54% of consumers want to watch more digital video content from their favourite brands and businesses. Countless businesses have already jumped on the bandwagon and are profiting from this evolving trend.

Don’t you think your recruitment company can benefit from these kinds of trends? Of course, it can! There’s a reason why more and more recruiters are now incorporating video as one of the top content mediums in their recruitment campaigns.

In this article, we will share some video marketing statistics that will help you access the need to invest in corporate video production in 2019. Sounds good? Let’s dig right in!

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How online forms can speed up the recruitment process

How online forms can speed up the recruitment process

We live in a digital world and it makes sense that the recruitment industry reflects this. In many ways it does, but when it comes to the handling of documents, recruiters need to ensure they’re not living in the dark ages. This is where online forms come in.

If you’re still having to wait for clients and candidates to print, fill, hand sign and return documents to you, Lilli Hender from Victoria Forms has a few insights into how eForms can help maximize your productivity

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How to build your digital 2.0 workforce

How to build your digital 2.0 workforce

The digital transformation 2.0 is here, we all know it.

Some refuse to embrace it, some live in denial, some might have already accepted it, while the recruiters have no choice but to understand how digital transformation has changed the nature of work, workplace and demands new age skills required for successful implementation of strategies.

In this rapid & well accepted transformation, it can be challenging for recruiters to identify, recruit and retain right talent at the same time. The rising demand is coupled with the shortage of talented candidates. To overcome this challenge you can look for new talent with proficiency in new age skills like Data Science, AI, Blockchain etc. or up skill existing workforce. To hire the right people for your digital transformation journey you must consider understanding the next gen job-roles and digital 2.0 skillset required for them.

This blog is to help recruiters- grumbling about not being able to identify the right talent but want to live up to hiring manager’s high expectations and help them get the best resources for the digital 2.0 team.

So, here are the two best ways to build effective digital 2.0 workforce.

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