How to Hire

Topics include: attracting employees, company branding, effective job postings, acquiring job candidates, interviewing, hiring practices, onboarding, employee referral programs, talent sourcing, the engagement cycle, and more.

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Algorithmic Hiring: This Technology Could Make Or Break Your Recruitment
Technology has always impacted recruitment. Now, new technology threatens to shake up the industry almost as much as when Monster invented the online job board 30 years ago – algorithmic hiring. At its most basic, algorithmic hiring involves a computer selecting candidates. The approach is gaining popularity in the US, especially among organisations aiming to streamline...
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You Need To Know How Each Pandemic Perspective Changed Workers
We look at four different worker pandemic experiences and their implications for your hiring and retention.
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Here’s How To Help Candidates Overcome Interview Nerves
Here are five strategies that will help you calm a candidate's interview nerves - so you can make better hiring decisions.
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Seven Proven Steps To Creating A Social Media Recruitment Strategy
Social Media can be a powerful tool to boost your hiring, but you need a proven strategy to benefit. We share one here.
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How to Attract Top Talent: 5 Proven Recruitment Strategies
Discover the five essential steps to attract and recruit top talent for your business. Learn how to review your company’s approach, develop a strong company culture, define job roles clearly, target potential candidates effectively, and refine your interview process to hire the best employees. Boost your recruitment strategies today!
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How To Write A Job Advert That Works
Job adverts come in many shapes and sizes, but there are a few simple rules that every advert should follow to ensure it attracts the right candidates. Read this then download our free guide. 

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Algorithmic Hiring: This Technology Could Make Or Break Your Recruitment

Technology has always impacted recruitment. Now, new technology threatens to shake up the industry almost as much as when Monster invented the online job board 30 years ago – algorithmic hiring. At its most basic, algorithmic hiring involves a computer selecting candidates. The approach is gaining popularity in the US, especially among organisations aiming to streamline…

You Need To Know How Each Pandemic Perspective Changed Workers
We look at four different worker pandemic experiences and their implications for your hiring and retention.
Three Steps to Improve Recruitment ROI
Measuring and monitoring recruitment ROI will provide you with invaluable data so you can save time and money.
How to Onboard New Hires

It takes time to write a job description, sift through CVs and cover letters, interview candidates, and find the right person for the job. To make sure that hard work pays off it’s important to plan how to onboard, to give your new hire the right support to be successful. A strong onboarding process increases…

Virtual Recruitment Strategies
Leverage your virtual recruitment strategies across the different technology platforms. Find your next job candidates by posting your jobs on Monster.
Social Media Recruiting: Understand the Legal Guidelines
Understand the legal parameters around social media recruiting before making your first post. Improve recruitment--post your job openings at Monster.
Top 5 Recruiter Lies (and How to Avoid Them)
Recruiter lies can be demoralizing for candidates and harm your brand. Improve employee recruitment--post job openings at Monster.
What Clients Look for When Hiring a Staffing Agency
Stand out in the staffing industry with these tips that clients look for when hiring a staffing agency. Post your company's jobs and more on Monster.
Hiring for Attitude, Training for Skill
Attract candidates who fit in with your company culture and brand by hiring for attitude, not skill. Find the right fit by posting your jobs on Monster.
Improve Recruitment: 5 Tips for Better Efficiency
Recruiting talented employees can be tough without the right strategies. Streamline your employee recruitment--post job openings and more at Monster.
Diversity – The Unrealised Potential of Workers with Disabilities

Monster recently provided advice for the student ‘career corner’ at City College Peterborough: This guest blog post from Assistant Principal Tasha Dalton-Winterton highlights that workers with disabilities still face stigma in entering the workforce: At City College Peterborough – Study programmes, we work with and support young people to educate them with the skills and…

Six Steps to Successful Video Interviewing – Business Continuity

As restrictions ease, slightly, we start to move out of lockdown. Many companies are cautious in hiring new staff. Much hiring activity has slowed, most employers have postponed any job interviews they had scheduled. We don’t yet know the full effects on our economy. As an employer, you may even have had to fire people….

Four Evidence-Backed Ways Science Improves Recruitment! 

Your preferred style of interview might be down to personal preference, tradition, familiarity or time in your schedule. Does it help you make the best hires? Finding the “right-fit” is possibly the trickiest part of recruitment. Candidates thrive when they genuinely engage with your company culture as well as having the right skills on paper….

How to handle hiring in a tight labour market

The market is tight, but the talent is out there. Try these strategies to locate and find the best fit for your business. U.K. recruiters know that ease of hiring waxes and wanes. This depends on whether you have easy access to a large pool of workers, or if your vacancy is in one of…

How to recruit tech talent – Whitepaper

How to attract the right candidates for tech roles.

WTF* is wrong with your ATS (*Way too frustrating)

I’m sure many of us remember the good old days of finding talent for your business. Endless spreadsheets to track applications and correspondence, multitudes of CVs with different coloured highlighter marks on different words and post in notes on relevant sections, CVs piled up under ‘Interview’, ‘Maybe’ and ‘No/Reject’, and once that’s all done you need to summon up the energy to compile a shortlist, juggle diaries, schedule the meetings and write the rejection letters. Easier to close the door and leave it for another day…or a colleague.