If you’ve just been invited to attend your first assessment centre, you may not know what to expect. The thought of being assessed for an entire day or more can feel daunting.

This article helps you understand what an assessment centre involves and how you can succeed.

What is an assessment centre?

An assessment centre is a stage…

Recruiting is a tricky business, especially, if you are looking to recruit a top-notch executive for an extremely important position. Keeping that into consideration, I write this article today to offer some useful tips that you may follow when recruiting eminent executives.

Before enlightening you with the route to successful executive recruiting, here is an explanation of what that term actually means.

Executive Recruiting

It is a procedure in which…

Many companies have already begun hiring seasonal employees, yet there are still thousands of positions waiting to be filled. Data has revealed that over 12 major companies expect to hire 700,000 seasonal employees this year…in the US alone!

In order to beat out the competition by making tons placements leading up to the holidays, there is one…

This is part 2 in our oil and gas job interview series, helping you find your ideal position.

Part 2 – Sell Your Skills

No matter if you are applying for an oil and gas freelance job, staff position or long term contract role, interviews are about two things:

1) Selling your skills to prove you can…

In my recent posts, I talked about how leading companies are simplifying their job application process to promote a positive candidate experience.

However, candidates are expecting a bit more than the traditional practice of resume submission for a job opening.

33% of job seekers want an automated email sent to them after…

First up Rebecca Fouts Building a Sourcing Function. So the draft Plan; Calibrate,

Create a support team, Focus, Refocus, Publish the plan, and be agile.  Service

Level Agreements are must haves, and Metrics are all essential, as it hiring the

right people.

Ben Gotkin and The new measuring Standard of ATAP (The…

Getting hired in human resources is a tricky process.

When you get in this team, you’re going to evaluate candidates based on the application documents. But at this point, you’re sending the kind of application documents that you want to evaluate. You have lots to prove and it won’t be easy.…

HR, as a profession has seen a lot of changes in the last few decades. The names kept on changing and so did the roles of HR people. Administration, labor welfare, personnel management, human resource management, people development, call it by the name you want, HR remains the backbone of every organization.

All of this is thanks to many technological innovations.…

Start with a new employee file solution now for big benefits this January in the human resources department.

Every HR professional is looking at a hectic schedule on a daily basis. Due to an overwhelming number of tasks, overall employee productivity is declining. This often leads to recruiting mistakes that end up being detrimental to the company. To strengthen your HR department, a good idea would be to…

How will Brexit impact the UK’s trade? It’s the question burning in every businessperson’s mind, and it doesn’t seem to be getting an answer any time soon. According to the Independent, many companies are struggling to decide on importing and exporting in light of confusion over the direction Brexit will take businesses.

But…

In order to be successful in any job, you have to take the initiative to expand upon your skill base. This can come in a variety of forms depending on your line of work. Here are some of the ways that you can perfect your skills throughout your career when you’re a tradesman.

Trial and Error

There is always the tried and true method…

How to overcome startup hiring challenges?

When it comes to recruiting, startups face 3 main challenges. We will explain these challenges and offer best practices tips for overcoming them! Read on to learn about the…

At ISL Recruitment we have experience of many interview set ups. If you are a shy, conservative person then this style of interview may be particularly daunting. ISL Recruitment can work with clients to organise group interviews and help candidates prepare.

Here are some tips from Sophie Down of things to remember at group…

You’re on the hunt for a job. The tech sector is huge and there are thousands of companies out there, but which ones should you apply to? We’ve come up with some simple points to help decide whether a company is right for you.

Know what you want

Before you jump into applying for a job, it’s crucial that you know what you’re looking for. Granted, it’s unlikely that any company or role will be perfect for you, but that’s not to say you can’t come close. Try making a note of…

The way of hiring employees has changed considerably in the past few decades. AI and other technological innovations are adopted by many organizations to simplify and streamline their hiring process. The core functions of recruitment process include collecting, screening resumes, interviewing, onboarding, benefits, compensations, payroll and…

Manpower planning is of utmost importance for a business because it’s one of the basic pillars of any organization says Avdhesh…

A proven way to improve your job postings

As the war for talent continues, employers are struggling to cut through the noise and attract the attention of the potential job candidates. Since today’s candidates have a lot of options for finding jobs and they are in…

Your employees are more important than your customers. Some managers may not agree with this notion.  However, the fact remains that a company’s workforce is the business asset which is most responsible for attracting and retaining customers. Without employees, you can’t deliver products or services with a consistently high level of customer satisfaction.…

In the continuous process improvement world, we consistently here about the need to listen to the voice of the customer when trying to resolve organizational problems. The problem is that this approach is primarily retroactive in nature.

According to Wikipedia, Voice of the customer (VOC) is a term used in business to describe the in-depth process of capturing customer's expectations, preferences and aversions. Specifically,…