Be deliberate about making it so

Unless you’ve been in a cave lately you have noticed the media making noise about diversity in the workplace. Some high profile companies have landed in hot water over a reported lack of diversity and even harassment. I truly don’t believe that most startup companies intend to lack diversity…

The past month’s news brought yet another cautionary tale about what happens when companies deprioritize diversity. While we all claim that diversity matters, we put it on the backburner while we focus on revenue growth and product innovation. However, a new report from…

There's so much information out there about Applicant Tracking Systems, isn't there?

So many tools, so many integrations, so many ways an ATS can serve you.

So we're stripping it back down to basics with this post: Just 5 great features of an ATS that might be of interest to you.

1. Application…

As I discussed a few weeks ago, diversification within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) sector is a major issue. Although the majority of the workforce is comprised of women, very few women have tech jobs. And a similar issue is posed with minorities. Diversification within the tech industry is a slow-going revolution. Which strikes me as…

Looking for a new job can be a stressful time in your life, only to be compounded when you actually get called in for an interview. All the confidence in the world cannot substitute for being prepared and presenting yourself well. Do that and the process will go much more smoothly for you. Consider the following four tips to help you prepare for your next interview and to…

A key to running a successful business is in organizing it into departments and making sure that each one is highly productive. And the people who have to work closely with all the other departments are your human resources professionals.



Therefore, in order to improve the functionality of your whole company, you should provide your HR team with the proper…

"Jabba's put a price on your head so large every bounty hunter in the galaxy will be looking for you." ―Greedo to Han Solo, Star Wars

Bounty Hunter, the name alone instills intrigue and excitement. A "seeker of rewards," hired to relentlessly pursue a target until completion and…

Recruitment website user experience may seem like an abstract concern, but it can have very real ramifications if ignored. User experience means more than just delivering a well-constructed website that impresses…

Millennials are lazy, expect everything to be handed to them and they’re impatient about it. Well that’s what we’ve all read over the last few years. This isn’t another blog picking apart these points, mainly because I don’t agree with it, but also because I’ve begun to experience what some are calling the…

As mentioned in one of our previous blog posts, Top 5 Workplace Trends for 2017, many companies will be looking to improve the candidate experience in this upcoming year. Technology has played a large part in where the hiring…

I feel so bad for them, they’ve done so much and then it’s so hard to come home and be normal again.

Why are we even having this conversation? Why do we have to differentiate between veterans and other people? It’s like we’ve created a victim class. 

How is a veteran’s transition any different from when I switched careers? I had to start again at the bottom and work my way up too! Why should it be any different for a veteran?

These are just a few…

Last week I attended David Haye vs Tony Bellew at the o2 arena and despite the outcome, both fighters put everything into winning. It will go on to be one of the biggest fights of they year and delivered on the massive hype. The two competitors had a genuine dislike for one another throughout the build up, which…

I wrote this in response to a clever post (although my jaded viewpoint usually sees these kinds of rants as picayune and entirely ignorant of the "Black Art" of recruiting and its enormous complexities: https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6246177412950949889)…

Having spent much of the years in a decision making capacity as a trigger puller for new hires, across a number of industries, I thought I would script a quick blog on the subject, in the hope that it might prove beneficial for those updating an existing CV or possibly even writing a CV for the first time.

The blog is not designed to be a definitive…

ISL Recruitment's Ace Blogger - Alistair Reyland - gives his opinion on negotiating your salary.

We don’t like to negotiate our salary, it’s a part of our British nature. We avoid awkward situations so much that even have …

Authenticity is a word that is probably said too often in the marketing world. Endless rhetoric on why being authentic, genuine and real (especially when it comes to those pesky millennials) is the only way to…

One of the hottest issues of tech recruiting is keeping pace with all of the technology updates, IT industry buzzwords and the terminology. 

Every week Software Engineers receive hundreds of letters and calls from different recruiters all over the world. And traditionally, the…

Read our brand new White Paper - Yes to Data Driven Recruitment Means No to Traditional Recruitment Metrics

In this white paper, I review recruitment metrics that are widely used within the recruitment industry and whether they are in fact beneficial or even helpful when it coming to driving improvements

As a talent acquisition leader, you will…