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Advice For Employers On Coronavirus

During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it’s important for employers to consider the steps they can take to protect the health and safety of their employees and customers in the coming weeks.

How Can You Make Your Company a Positive Place to Work?

Fostering a positive culture, with strong leadership, training and wellbeing, is one of the most crucial elements of running a successful business. After all, a company with happy employees is one that has happy customers, and ultimately attracts the best talent.

Implementing An Employee Benefits Scheme

Employee benefits schemes are becoming increasingly popular to help improve work-life balance and build a workplace culture that benefits both the employee and employer.

Should You Hire Someone Who Is Overqualified For The Job?

Employers are often reluctant to hire a candidate they see as being overqualified, even when choosing from a limited candidate pool. 

So we’ve put together some of the pros and cons of hiring an overqualified applicant.

How a Recruitment Agency Can Support Your HR Team

Partnering with an external recruitment agency could take the pressure off your internal staff while still ensuring you hire the very best candidates for your vacancies.

How To Screen CVs

Receiving high volumes of candidates for a job vacancy can be both a recruiter’s dream and worst nightmare. But whether you receive tens or hundreds of applications, learning how to screen CVs effectively is essential in helping you to find the best candidate.

Tips For Conducting An Effective Job Interview

Conducting an interview often seems to be easier than it really is, meaning that ensuring you are interviewing effectively can be a challenge.

So to help you improve your interview technique, we have put together our advice for conducting an effective interview.

How To Check Candidate References

While interviews will reveal a lot about your potential hires, reference checks are key in gaining further insight into a candidate’s experience, abilities and reliability.

So we’ve put together the following tips to help you make the most of your reference checks.

How To Retain Great Employees

Employee retention is key to the long term success of any business. Losing employees can be costly and cause disruption to your remaining workforce. So after putting in the time and resources to attract, hire and train great staff, you need to learn how to keep them onboard.

How To Choose Between Two Strong Candidates

To help you narrow down the candidate pool and make the final decision of who to hire, here’s our advice on what to consider when choosing between two great candidates.