HR trends: Attracting Candidates

About the series: CV-19 has accelerated many trends, including (or especially!) those related to HR and recruitment. Companies that want to hire valuable candidates – who don’t quit after 3 months – have to make sure they keep up with the newest trends. What’s even more important: they need to implement new strategies in the right way.

Trends that are introduced too fast and/or by the wrong department will backfire by e.g. generating additional costs, negative employer branding, losing valuable candidates, longer recruitment processes, low(er) candidate experience, etc.

To help companies avoid these mistakes, we put together a summary of the most important trends along an employee’s life cycle – with their accompanying threats and – where possible – adding relatively simple quick wins – everything backed up with stats and real cases.

This week, we are sharing trends and threats related to Phase #1 out of 5: Attracting Candidates.
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“If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.” by Grace Hopper

LMGTFY: Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906 – 1992), American computer scientist and US Navy admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

Inspirational quote: “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission” Grace Hopper

Career Consultant Diary: I don’t use any private email address

Being a Career Consultant for Executives is often misunderstood or romanticized or both. Sandra Bichl, founder of Career Angels and experienced international Career Consultant, decided to bring more transparency to her/our profession by sharing random days of her work in the form of a “diary” – the delay (sometimes of a year) ensures confidentiality. Below a client example who discontinued their private contact details as they became fully enwrapped in their corporate life. Spoiler: don’t do it!
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Where will you meet us?

Do you want to follow the know-how of Career Angels? Learn about the latest trends? Data? Methodology? Read this blog post to get access to one of our many lectures, webinars, podcasts, webcasts, training sessions and alike!

This week:

Date: April 28, 2021 / 17:00 – 18:15 CET
For: Warsaw University of Technology Business School
Topic: How to hack bots / ATS when applying for managerial ads?
Speaker: Anna Zadrożna 
Format: online
Language: Polish
About & details: Join the next online meeting of the Talent Tree series.
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Career Angels was asked by Exparang, a Swedish HR-Tech company, that bets on data-driven Executive Search, to take a closer look at the Scandinavian job market and prepare an exclusive and dedicated “Market Signals” report. To understand how “job search-friendly” (aka competitive) a job market is, we analyze the changes in the number of LinkedIn job ads for 80 countries each week – this time we prepared a summary on the Nordics – Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden.

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