We’re heading back to the office, and we’ve never been happier to say that! One of the impacts of COVID-19 has been pandemic plastic (and for good reason, to protect our health). However, now we all need to step up our game, and make sure we reduce our impact as much as possible. And that means in the office too. Which of these ideas can you take onboard tomake your office greener? The basics 1. Go paperless Going paperlessdoesn’t just savetrees. It also saves use of precious resources, especially water. Opt for file-sharing and note-taking apps instead. 2. Reduce Energy Avoid energy vampires ..read more

Embedded, in-house and on-site Talent Acquisition’s rather taking off. If it seems like there are more agencies than ever offering their own brand of on-site solution. Some agencies were founded under the very principle. And for the last few years have been rather noisily changing the landscape around hiring. Some have pivoted only mildly and now offer smaller arms, or productised hiring where their agency recruiters sit on-site, some of the week. In other cases there’s Tech involved with hiring strategies centred around D&I initiatives. Today, we have a look at the companies currently on ..read more

We’re big on helping recruitment companies succeed at Hunted. In fact, that’s basically all we’re about. Which is good news for you. A large part of your company’s success hinges on your brand. Now if you’ve been listening, you’ll already know a recruitment company has two brands. There’s the one candidates and clients interact with. And there’s the one internal staff know. This is your employer brand, and it’s what we’re concerned with today. To improve your brand, you first need to know what to work on. And that means analysing what’s good about it, and what’s bad. But how? Glad you asked. S ..read more

It’s apparently a myth that ostriches bury their head in the sand at the sight of danger. That might be fairly obvious though, because if you think about it, they wouldn’t have survived that long if they stuck their tiny heads in sand, showing their long juicy necks for predators to gorge on. That said, it’s a nice analogy. And whilst it might not be true to reality, the cold hard facts of recruitment over the last 12 months has meant many founders have done the same. It’s happened time and time again, with multiple teams in a vast amount of companies. How do I know? Because during that time ..read more

There’s an awful lot of recruitment companies in existence. More so than ever before. In fact around 8,000 more UK businesses that’ve formed since Jan 2020 apparently. That means choice. Choice for recruiters in general, and choice for your staff. It means when they’re headhunted by rec2recs on LinkedIn, they’ll know there are other options, if this place isn’t quite right. But that alone isn’t your problem. So what is? It’s not you Of all the recruitment companies that have ever been founded, all of them have hired a new member of staff and found it hasn’t worked out. It happens all the time ..read more

Do you know what the opposite of fragility is? It’s not robustness or strength. If something’s robust it will be less fragile, but the opposite would mean something that actually benefits from stress and harm. Something that should be mishandled. Unlike fragile items which break under stress, anti-fragile items actually benefit from volatility and stress. This is the underlying premise of a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb called Antifragile. It is about how unlike fragile items which break under stress, antifragile items actually benefit from volatility and stress. One abstract example of anti-f ..read more

A lot of agency Founders understand retention’s importance. Some view it as critical a cog as hiring. But there’s a fairly strong argument for it being more crucial. A “lost” employee can cost a company anywhere between 30% to 400% of their annual salary. You already know this. For starters, think about the financial cost a loss of billings would bring you. Obviously it depends on the employee in question. But it could be huge. And then there’s the morale deficit if it’s one of your best characters. Will others follow? It’s a huge investment in time to get a recruiter up to speed and performin ..read more

I don’t get to share as many email chains these days. Sadly I think the world’s become a little more understanding of each other since last year. No doubt they’ll become more frequent as we’re allowed out the house once more. Hey, maybe not? Maybe animosity will remain a thing of the past. Maybe we’ll all continue to treat each other with love and respect. I jest of course. Here’s a recent ‘client’ of my colleague’s doing his absolute best to alienate everyone he meets. From: Danny Date: Thursday 21 Jan 09:15 To: Ed Hunter Subject: FW: Kate Mate, Sasha just got this from K ..read more

Fancy another mid-week chuckle? Let’s face it, you’re working from home. There’s nobody looking over your shoulder. And every single one of us needs cheering up. There are some (your manager) who might question the validity of watching a quick Ed Hunter video in your working week. But I absolutely guarantee, recruiting with a smile on your face will help you bring home the Benjamins. And it’ll improve your general mood a lot more than updating your KPIs. Speaking of which… take 1 minute 39 seconds to yourself and enjoy… ‘Wallace and Gromit and The KPI-Matic‘ (Full screen it for the cinematic e ..read more

Hullo again. You’ll know by now I like a wind up. And for no other reason than that, I’ve recently been writing letters to the Government. Letters are, in my opinion, an underused format. You see, in times gone by everyone relied on the post. It was mainstream, but these days it’s borderline defunct. Now, email’s the norm. And that means you’re much more likely to get something read if you step into the physical world and send a real letter. This works pretty well with clients too by the way. If you can somehow navigate the fact that knowing their home address isn’t weird and creepy. It also d ..read more