If you’ve decided to take advantage of outsourced recruitment solutions, you will already recognise that your business will benefit from access to a richer pool of talent, a more streamlined recruitment process, and lower overall hiring costs. The challenge, however, is to choose your outsourcing recruitment specialist. As in all walks of life, there are businesses offering services ..read more

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of later-career workers over the age of 50 leaving the workplace has risen dramatically. This has created a scenario where companies are faced with the loss of substantial expertise and staff shortages. In today’s article, we look at why hiring experienced and older workers (aged 50-70 ..read more

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, most companies undertook all of their onboarding activities for new starters offline and in-person. Once lockdowns were implemented, many firms switched to a hybrid or fully remote working model for new starters. Unable to onboard the new employees in-person, demand for virtual onboarding took off and, as many companies have continued ..read more

Blue Octopus Recruitment is pleased to announce that it now offers full support of LinkedIn Job Wrapping, a feature that streamlines and simplifies the posting of new vacancies on LinkedIn. The integration enables users of the next-generation Octo Platinum applicant tracking system (ATS) to increase their productivity when advertising their vacancies on the world’s biggest ..read more

Recruitment cost per hire is an important metric in HR, for various reasons. First, it’s an accurate indicator of how resources are spent when hiring a single employee. Second, this KPI can help you determine how your business is performing relative to the industry average. And lastly, cost-per-hire is a useful metric in strategic HR ..read more

Blue Octopus has announced a new partnership with equality, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) solutions provider MeVitae to help users of Octo Platinum applicant tracking system (ATS) mitigate bias in the hiring process through CV anonymisation. MeVitae’s blind recruiting tool, which uses natural language processing, redacts over 20 parameters that could lead to discrimination, such as ..read more

Blue Octopus has been shortlisted in three separate categories for the Onrec Awards 2023: Best Online Candidate Experience (in conjunction with not-for-profit housing association Stonewater), Technical Innovation Award for the new Octo Platinum recruitment software, and Personality of the Year for Co-Founder and Joint Managing Director Chris Coleman. Blue Octopus provides an end-to-end recruitment process ..read more

Blue Octopus is celebrating today after picking up the Technical Innovation award at yesterday’s Onrec Awards 2023 in London. The Onrec Awards, now in their 17th year, celebrate companies’ achievements in online recruitment. Blue Octopus first won an award in 2013, just three years after the company’s formation. Blue Octopus’ successful evening at the Onrec ..read more

Blue Octopus has increased the versatility of its award-winning recruitment technology, Octo Platinum, through a new integration with pre-employment screening and vetting services provider Eurocom CI. The integration provides users with in-depth insights into potential hires, verifying their backgrounds and qualifications, and helping to ensure that the right candidates are hired for all roles. For ..read more

IRIS Software Group (IRIS), one of the UK’s largest privately owned software companies, is today announcing it has acquired Blue Octopus, a leading provider of recruitment software and services in the UK. Founded in 2010 by brothers, Chris and Liam Coleman, Blue Octopus specialises in offering innovative recruitment and onboarding technology, managed recruitment services and ..read more