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How important is a job title to the recruitment process?

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How important is a job title to the recruitment process? I was talking to a client recently about a job title for a new post. I explained that in order to attract the right candidate for the role we needed to advertise it under a title that our target candidates would be looking for and respond to.

She was very disappointed as she wanted a ‘modern’ and exciting job title to match her modern and exciting company. You know the type “Jedi, Master, Guru etc.”

A top tip for attracting the right type of applicants to your role is putting yourself in their shoes. If you were applying for the role what title would you be looking for and respond to? This will often depend on what their job title is now.

Be careful of advertising obscure job titles as you will not get the response you are hoping for. Keep it simple. You can always advertise it under one job title and then use an internal title if you must have something sexier when that person is in post. But the important thing is to find them first.

What are the weirdest job titles that you’ve come across?

Are you holding out for a Golden Unicorn?

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Are you holding out for that golden unicorn?

I recently had a conversation with a potential new client who has been referred to me as she was struggling to recruit. This lady had been recruiting for a role for 12 months. She has used numerous local recruitment agencies as well as the local press and had been unsuccessful.

I told her that I would be remiss if I was to take on the role as is. What she was looking for is just not available in her local market. They just don't exist. I advised her that she could keep on doing what she was doing and likely get the same results. OR she would need to make a compromise on what she was looking for and train on the skills that she cannot find.

If you have been recruiting for the same position for a long time and are just not getting the right candidates consider this: Are you looking for a golden unicorn?

Don't waste your time looking for something that doesn't exist. Instead look at what does exist and consider what elements you could train in-house and make your own golden unicorn :)

Transparency and the gender pay gap

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Last year, to comply with new government rules on gender pay transparency, the BBC released details of staff earning salaries of more than £150,000. The figures revealed that the highest paid female star was Claudia Winkleman, the host of Strictly Come Dancing, who earned £500,000, which paled significantly to the £2.2 million earned by the radio DJ and short-lived Top Gear front man Chris Evans.

 

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The key to a successful induction process

Written by Lyndsey Meredith on .

So you’ve hired a new member of staff. You’re really pleased that you have found the right person and that they’ve accepted your offer. Their references check out and you’ve agreed a start date. So what do you do next?

A lot employers think that the recruitment process is the only important step to hiring the right staff. However, once you have hired the right person it is imperative that you keep them. On average according to a study by Oxford Economics the cost of replacing the average member of staff is over £30,000! This includes the cost of lost output whilst replacing an outgoing workers and the logistical cost of recruiting a new worker and getting them up to speed. 

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Creating a Benefits Package that will motivate and attract

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A few months ago I had a client who was looking to put together a benefits package that would appeal to all of his staff. He wanted to know what the people wanted and so we put together an internal staff survey and I also posed the question to the audience of my Facebook page. The responses were really interesting but the important thing that came across was that different things appealed to different people and that “no one size fits all” when it comes to benefits packages. 

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