At the first 2019 retail and hospitality network meeting our discussion touched on topics that frequently cause headaches for in-house recruiters! The ATS, working with hiring managers, and keeping talent pools warm.
New research published last week shows that organisations still favour hiring candidates with “gleaming academic records rather than potential”. According to a Cornerstone OnDemand study, 57% of businesses prefer candidates with the prerequisite skills needed to match the job requirements.
Positive action and ultimately positive discrimination has been a contentious topic since the 2010 Equality Act. How can we ensure we use it in a fair and equitable way during recruitment?
A retail company we work with receives 200,000 job applications per year. 50,000 of these come via head office. The other 150,000 are made directly to stores, many of them in person. How should the recruitment team manage this? On one hand, this is a feature of the retail and hospitality sector that draws … Continue reading "Choosing the Right Hiring Model for Retail and Hospitality Recruitment"
LaunchPad’s Narinder Hammond, Partnerships Director and Alastair Frater, UK Head of Sales at Arctic Shores got together on our recent webinar to talk about how using cutting-edge tech, including game-based assessment, can ease some of the frustrations we face as recruiters. 
LaunchPad’s Narinder Hammond, Partnerships Director and Alastair Frater, UK Head of Sales at Arctic Shores got together on our recent webinar to talk about how using cutting-edge tech, including game-based assessment, can ease some of the frustrations we face as recruiters. 