The Recruitment Blog

​The SMART acronym is familiar to most people in HR, but have you ever thought of it in terms of your recruitment technology? If your recruitment software can’t provide you with support for SMART recruitment objectives, then your recruitment team won’t be able to work "SMARTER".

Winner of our July blog competition- congratulations to Lora Shaw from Straco Recruitment Group! Lora writes passionately about what it takes to succeed in the recruitment industry, as well as offering an insight into the tactics and strategies Straco Recruitment Group have employed in their continued growth.

Using, or at the very least considering the lifetime value model can have major positive impact on your recruitment business. But how can agencies reconcile this long term plan with short term gains? 

Sector diversification is often an obvious move for growing agencies. Get the diversification model right, and it can be applied time and time again on your route to world domination. Get it wrong, and it could be disastrous. Obviously there are hundreds of things to think about, but here are our “Top 3 Tips”.

Does the speed of your careers site affect the quality of the candidate experience? Almost certainly. But how do you test the speed of your careers site? We're going to show you in less than one minute!

Google now prioritises mobile optimised pages above all others. But how do you know if a page on your site is mobile responsive? We can tell you exactly how in less than 30 seconds!

In a world bereft of technology, never has the importance of recruiting the right people been more prominent in the “business” strategies of the main characters.

So who is the most skilled recruiter, and what techniques are they employing?

We’re often asked to test a company’s E-recruitment capability. Here are 5 of the key areas that we look at during a health-check…

The clocks have gone back and spring is well and truly in the air. At Eploy we're getting in the Springtime mood with this seasonal infographic!

On April 21st 2015 Google is updating it's algorithm- again. This time it is going to start penalising sites that are not optimised for mobile devices. With 30% of all traffic now originating from mobile devices across the industry, this change could mark a significant shift in your recruitment process from e-recruitment to m-recruitment. 

Over the years we’ve noticed a marked shift within many companies now managing the majority of their recruitment ‘in-house’. It’s the rise of the ‘poacher turned gamekeeper’ – we’re seeing more and more agency consultants moving client-side.

Following recent reports that REC has denied 193 agencies membership, with the main issue cited as a lack of understanding in how to apply Agency Worker Regulations, Chris Bogh explains here how Eploy’s recruitment management software can, and is helping recruiters successfully manage this EU Directive