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When Expertise Trumps Industry Experience

Let’s not beat about the bush, the past 18 months have been brutal from a staffing point of view. A recent article from The Guardian stated that staff shortages are affecting almost every industry sector. While the ...

Expertise

Sacking The Process: When to Challenge The Status Quo For the Right Candidate...

“I had a chat with a client recently. I had found the perfect candidate for them but they had to ‘follow procedure’...the candidate moved on...it was a missed opportunity for them and the candidate”. Consider the abov...

Expertise Video Interviews Covid

A Conversation With John Westhead

Recently I posted on LinkedIn about whether we should hire for training experience or occupational competence? And whether hiring exclusively for one or the other means that we as a sector are missing out on amazing c...

Employee retention Staff Retention Recruitment

Retention and Recruitment - Different, or one of the same?

Sales People - Know your numbers!

Training Experience vs Occupational Competence

Training Experience vs Occupational Competence It’s an ever present challenge when recruiting into Further Education to find the balance of an individual or a team who has both the Occupation (recent occupational) ...

2020 - a NWR Recap

Well, it’s been a hell of a year ….. how many times have we heard or even said this in the last few weeks? We’ve all had to ride this unpredictable wave, and we’ve all faired differently. Being in recruitment, it’s...

Employer Branding Talent Pools

Look after your talent pools, they could be future hires!

It's great to see a number of providers really making strides of growth, especially after such an uncertain yearWe are now seeing quite a few roles being advertised across the FE market, specifically in roles that ar...

Reasonable Adjustments

Why are providers not applying for Reasonable Adjustments to support learners as much as they should?

I was interviewing a candidate recently, and for one of the questions I asked they gave a great example of how they identified a specific learner had learning difficulties, and they were able to apply for RAs in order...

Video Interviews

Video Interview Tips - Video

Employee retention Employer Branding Onboarding

6 Tips for Onboarding Remote Employees

Onboarding employees is the process of allowing new hires to get to know their team and learn about your company. This process is largely the same for remote employees with the exception that the new hire will be wo...

Kickstart

Can the Kickstart Scheme Aid Economic Recovery?

Back in July as part of his mini-budget speech, Chancellor Rishi Sunak promised the launch of a Kickstart Scheme that would help get 16-24-year-olds on Universal Credit, who had lost their jobs or opportunities due t...

Employer Branding

Best Practices to Develop a Great Employer Brand

When it comes to recruitment it can be a competitive business, companies are going against one another to attract the most talented employees. Employees today are looking beyond the financial benefits a potential emp...

Challenges Further Education Covid

The Challenges Facing Further Education Post COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has created numerous challenges for every sector of the economy, with many industries adapting drastically to succeed in the ‘new normal’. One thing organisations and human beings around the wo...

Apprenticeships Further Education

What's Next for FE in the New Academic Year?

With the new academic year just around the corner, teachers, support staff and students will be preparing to return college life after the Coronavirus lockdown. During the pandemic, further education institutions qu...

Workforce Skills Gap Employer Branding

Could Apprenticeships Help Boost the Economy?

Apprenticeships improve the skills, wages and future career progression of the young adults that undertake them, but they also impact on the productivity of the companies that offer them. In fact, apprenticeships are...

Apprenticeships

GCSE & A-Level Results: What Went Wrong?

Due to COVID-19 the young adults that were set to sit their GCSE and A-Level exams in 2020 were told earlier this year that sitting the exams would not be possible and instead their results would be based on teacher ...

Employer Branding

How Can Employer Branding Grow your Business?

Every organisation has a brand, from the colours and typography you use in your logo and on your website and other marketing materials to the tone of voice you use in your communications, but what is an Employer Brand...

Employee retention Staff Retention

The Challenges and Best Practices of Staff Retention

The Challenges and Best Practices of Staff RetentionAttracting the right people with the right skills and experience to your organisation is a crucial part of the recruitment process, but equally if not more importan...

Offboarding

Offboarding: Helping employees’ transition

Offboarding: Helping employees’ transitionThe current economic climate is likely to lead to an increase in redundancies, especially as staff reach the end of their furlough and government support decreases. For many ...

When Expertise Trumps Industry Experience

Sacking The Process: When to Challenge The Status Quo For the Right Candidate...

A Conversation With John Westhead

Retention and Recruitment - Different, or one of the same?

Sales People - Know your numbers!

Training Experience vs Occupational Competence

2020 - a NWR Recap

Look after your talent pools, they could be future hires!

Why are providers not applying for Reasonable Adjustments to support learners as much as they should?

Video Interview Tips - Video

6 Tips for Onboarding Remote Employees

Can the Kickstart Scheme Aid Economic Recovery?

Best Practices to Develop a Great Employer Brand

The Challenges Facing Further Education Post COVID-19

What's Next for FE in the New Academic Year?

Could Apprenticeships Help Boost the Economy?

GCSE & A-Level Results: What Went Wrong?

How Can Employer Branding Grow your Business?

The Challenges and Best Practices of Staff Retention

Offboarding: Helping employees’ transition

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