Recruitment & Employment Confederation

| April 18, 2016

Recruitment marketing has increasingly become a core competency of talent acquisition. To keep up with today’s consumer minded job seekers, modern recruiting professionals are adopting recruitment marketing techniques and tools to establish and sustain connections with candidates.iCIMS has released a new research study, “Recruitment Marketing: Fad or Future?” to get in-depth, data-driven insights on the relevance of recruitment marketing, and what employers and job seekers have to say about it....

HRM | March 08, 2016

With more businesses taking a data-driven approach to identifying talent, increases in productivity and profitability have inevitably followed suited. This is according to Brandon Rigoni, associate director for selection and development at Gallup, and Bailey Nelson, writer and editor at Gallup. Following Gallup analysis, when firms hire the top 20% most-talented candidates for a role, there is a 10% increase in productivity, 10% decrease in turnover and 25% decrease in unscheduled absences. This...

| May 03, 2016

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has launched a new recruitment process after some unpleasant home truths came to light, with applicants slamming the old procedure as “too long, inflexible, and outdated.” “The RCMP heard their concerns and is taking action to make it faster, flexible and modern,” the service said in a statement....

| May 05, 2016

Fast food giant McDonald’s Restaurants proved its recruitment mettle, winning gold for the category for Best Recruitment Advertising Strategy at the Asia Recruitment Awards 2016, Singapore. Silver in the category was shared by GroupM Asia Pacific and SCOOT, while Certis CISCO Security took home the bronze trophy, at the awards held on April 13, 2016. Michael Wright, GroupM’s head of talent acquisition in Asia Pacific, commented: “GroupM has, for several years, been walking the talk on recruiti...