Entries by Victoria McGlynn

How Video Interviews Changed My Life (And how they can change yours)

I think every recruiter remembers their first recruitment disaster. I was fresh into my new career, with one of my very first recruitment projects; shortlisting candidates for a project development position, with one of our biggest corporate clients. My process was pretty standard and thorough: Screen applications according to the criteria, identify top applicants, conduct […]

Unsuccessful Feedback – Letting Them Down Easy

Delivering bad news is rarely something that Recruiters and Hiring Managers enjoy doing. However, when it comes to maintaining your Employer Brand and reputation, delivering unsuccessful feedback to a candidate is one of the most important parts of the recruitment process.  Every interaction that a member of the public has with your employer brand, including […]

Behavioural Testing – Delve Deeper Into Your Candidates

A common issue among both Recruiters and Hiring Managers is conducting an entire recruitment process, identifying and placing the perfect candidate, and then finding out too far down the track that they are not performing as well as expected. A costly and dangerous mistake to make for organisations, this will often occur if the screening […]

How To Deal With More Than One Great Candidate

Recruitment is all about finding that perfect candidate, but what happens when we end up with more than one? Every now and then, an effective recruitment process gathers multiple suitable applicants, any of which you would love to hire, but unfortunately only have one position. While this is a good problem to have, it can […]

5 Mistakes to Avoid When Talent Pool Fishing

While for many ‘talent pooling’ is still a buzz word – In reality, it no longer is. What is often a pool of forgotten people is in fact a group who are already bought into your organisation – they’ve either taken the time to subscribe to your content or they’ve previously shown interest in you […]

All I want for Christmas…is candidates for my roles!

Generally, when we think about Christmas recruiting we think about the manic Christmas casual hiring period that occurs between October and January each year. But what about all the organisations who happen to be looking for full-time, permanent employees during this time? Two of the biggest questions the Recruitment Advertising Team here at Employment Office […]

Shortlisting on a Shoe String

Your Pocket Guide to Shortlisting on a Budget. Recruitment can be costly – in terms of time and money. Finding the right person can take up to 68 days, according to a 2015 study by management consultancy company, CEB. Regardless of the process, recruitment costs can reach up to two-thirds of an employee’s annual salary, […]