The Northern Ireland startup community is thriving, it is the best place to start a business and get it to £1m sales when compared to the rest of the UK. The talent in Northern Ireland is also incredible and this has helped attract large international corporations to set up here. We wanted to see what […]
As part of our mission to improve the interview process we realise that we also need to engage with interviewees. In our latest student employability event we collaborated with Queen’s University Belfast, Ulster University and Catalyst’s Generation Innovation to deliver a workshop on interviewing best practice, followed by one-to-one interviews using the Equitas interview app […]
Everyone knows the golden rule “Treat people as you’d want to be treated yourself” but when it comes to giving feedback to candidates after interviews it can quite quickly be forgotten and we tell ourselves “I don’t have the time to give detailed, quality feedback to every candidate”. Feedback can be the last thing interviewers […]
Below is our simple guide to providing candidates with quality feedback. If you’re wondering why give feedback to candidates after job interviews please check out our article “The value of giving candidates quality feedback”. This is our curation of what we liked when recruiting for dozens of companies in the past combined with some of […]
In hiring there is a big focus on time to hire; it should be as minimal as possible. This can be for financial reasons, speed to offer to secure the best talent or to make the path to hiring or on-boarding as quick and easy as possible. Whilst these are good reasons to reduce time […]
One of the major reasons startups fail is to do with the team, with over 23% of failed startups in a recent study citing the team as being the main reason. Skill or knowledge gaps, divisions or conflict in the team and lack of buy in to the vision are key issues that can contribute […]
One of the biggest issues I’ve come across in interviewing and assessment is bias. Hiring decisions can massively impact someone’s life and if candidates are being scored too generously or harshly it is a big problem. Most people don’t realise they are being biased, but with awareness on the topic growing the “ignorance is bliss” […]
There is more to recruitment than how we attract and sift candidates, but the recent advances in technology and move to a digital approach has focused predominantly on these two areas. Sifting software and Applicant Tracking System (ATS) providers have been two of the main driving forces for innovation in the recruitment and assessment world. […]
Despite the exponential growth in the use of one-way video interviews, the positives do not outweigh the negatives and companies will begin to move away from this approach and will instead use different technology for a digital end to end approach to assessment and recruitment. Video interview providers usually cite time and cost saving as […]
