Nobul Resourcing Solutions

Following on from our last blog about understanding your talent brand, we now move our focus to how to audit that talent brand to understand how successful it is and where you can make improvements. #talentbrand #recruitment #audit

You know your business is awesome. Your employees know your business is awesome. Even the dogs coming into the office one day a week know your business is awesome. 🐶 Candidates DON'T know your business is awesome. Unless your business is a household name, there's a strong chance that candidates simply won't have heard of you when you're hiring for a new role. That means for them, there is no employer brand tied to the job advert. You need to keep candidates engaged throughout the whole process, and to keep them interested in your opportunity over anything else they might have been considering exploring. That means you need to invest a significant amount of time in building relationships with candidates throughout the process, helping them to understand all of the amazing things about your business. At Nobul, we have dedicated Candidate Experience Managers, who focus purely on the candidate's journey, making sure that they have true alignment with your values, culture, and mission, and sharing everything that makes you a great company to work for. We're proud to be your voice in a crowded marketplace and take the responsibility seriously, helping to build your employer brand throughout the recruitment process.  📢 #recruitment #talentacquisition #talentsolutions

Do you have a stance of the more the merrier when it comes to working with recruiters? There's nothing wrong with a bit of professional competiton, right? Unfortunately not, folks, and if you're the hiring company and you think working with multiple recruitment companies is a good idea, maybe take a minute to consider this: 🧑When candidates see there are multiple recruitment companies hiring for the same role, they might assume that there are already too many applications in the mix and won't bother applying. 😮When you work with multiple agencies, it's fastest finger first for getting CVs in front of you and guess what this means? Quality goes out the window. So you might have six agencies advertising your job, but none of them are taking the time to craft truly representative job descriptions, and it's going to impact the quality of applications. Congratulations, you're now reviewing CVs from poor job ads and CV harvesting for quantity over quality and chances are, you're seeing the same CVs multiple times. 🧑🧑🧑Those recruiters know they are one of several, so you won't be their priority, their exclusive clients will. 🏆Truly expert recruiters know the value that a bespoke, tailored recruitment solution can bring to a business and they won't even consider wasting their team's time on this kind of exercise when they could be focusing on building meaningful relationships with top talent they've attracted for an exclusive client. Exclusive partnerships benefit everyone involved and really are there to make sure that the hiring company gets the best outcome possible, not to minimise competition. #recruitment #talentacquisition #resourcingsolutions

Three signs your recruitment is broken: ❌ You can't immediately and confidently explain what "good" looks like, specific to each role you're recruiting for in your business. ❌ You're not 100% on the specific behaviours a candidate would need to succeed in each role.  ❌ The job descriptions for roles you're hiring for could be job descriptions for any other business with a similar role and would hit a full house on Job Ad Buzzword Bingo. ❌Bonus sign: You get loads of applications in response to your ads but none are a fit. Recruitment isn't as simple as putting a job ad out and watching an influx of perfect-fit candidates apply. Recruitment demands expertise if it's to be done well and achieve the best possible outcomes. Some steps we'd take help you take to fix broken recruitment: ✅Do a deep dive into your business to understand the wider, overarching business goals and the impact of the roles you're hiring for within your business and for your customers, along with the challenges, deliverables, and responsibilities for each role, to truly understand what "good" looks like for your business. ✅Explore which behaviours, skills, and experience a candidate would need to succeed based on the specific role, and how that aligns with the deliverables and responsibilities. ✅Build a role profile and craft a truly bespoke, tailored job description and advert that attract the right candidates for your role and business, including values and culture fit. There's more to fixing broken recruitment and we'd love to help you find the right candidates for your roles; give us a call on 0161 518 9806. #recruitment #talentacquisition #resourcingsolutions #talentsolutions

Does your team *really* have the time to spend on recruitment as well as doing their day job? 🕒 Do they *really* have time to do their full time role AND breakaway from their essential tasks to: 📢Write and put a strong job advert that will attract the right candidates for the right roles, in the right places? 📄Sift through potentially dozens, or even hundreds of CVs, looking for good matches for the role AND be confident in their selections? 📞Take time to do initial screening calls (some of which will, of course, uncover that the candidate is not a match)? 🧑Prepare for and conduct initial interviews to deep dive into a candidate's skill set, ensuring alignment with your company goals, values, and culture? And that's before any in-depth interviews kick off. And of course, they'll want to maintain the strong employer brand you have, so they'll also need to make sure they: 🧑🧑🧑🧑 Keep multiple candidates updated throughout the process, and support them to have everything they need to be able to shine through your decision-making interview process, so that you find the best possible fit for the role. Recruitment takes time. If your team doesn't have enough time needed to be able to dedicate to the recruitment process to maximise positive outcomes, let us take the burden and stress off your hands. When you work with us, you have a whole team focusing on your recruitment needs. If you want to explore freeing your team to focus on their main roles and not recruitment, give us a call for a no-commitment chat 0161 518 9806. #recruitment #talentacquisition #resourcingsolutions

Have you put a job ad out and you've only had a few applications for what is actually a pretty amazing role? 😩 ❌Your job ad probably isn't sparking the right level of interest and connection with the right candidates - they don't realise it's "for them" when they read it and think they aren't a match. Why it matters for YOUR business: One of our clients put a job ad they wrote out on their own channels and received 17 applications in a two week period, none of whom were invited to interview. One of our Candidate Experience Managers put a job ad she wrote for the company out when we began working on the role, and received 65 applications within 24 hours; several were invited to interview, one of which ultimately went on to join the company in the role. The candidate had seen the original job ad but didn't think it was "for them", so didn't apply until they saw our expertly crafted ad, that was created purely to attract candidates exactly like them, and they were surprised to hear it was a company they had already decided wasn't a fit a couple of weeks before. A well-written job ad makes ALL the difference and needs expertise to craft to attract the right candidates. If you'd like to find out more about finessing your job ads to attract the right people for the right roles, give us a call on 0161 518 9806 or email info@nobulrs.com #recruitment #talentacquisition #recruitmentresourcing

At Nobul, all of our business to date has been from referrals from happy clients and candidates who become clients. Yep, all of it. 💯 That's nearly seven years of referrals and so much business that we've hired multiple team members to help support our growth. 📈 We're pretty new when it comes to sharing what we do on LinkedIn, and we're hoping that sharing some of our experience can help your business to optimise your talent solutions. We'll be sharing our insights on LinkedIn, our website, and if you're a fan of having top tips delivered direct to your inbox, you can subscribe to our email newsletter and we'll have you covered.  And if you're on the market for a truly bespoke, tailored transformative recruitment solutions provider, you know where we are! Here's a pic of some of our team enjoying our new Manchester City Centre office - get in touch to come visit us for a brew and a chat! #recruitment #talentacquisition #candidateexperience #resourcingsolutions

Did you know that previous experience in role is only the 14th best predictor of future job performance? 😲 Knowing the difference between a candidate that can *get* the job, vs a candidate that can *do* the job is what sets people who are truly experts in recruitment apart from the rest. There are so many factors that go into assessing true alignment and in-role success opportunity, and often, a scan of a CV and initial interview won't separate one group from the other. And let's face it, the candidate probably won't have a clear picture of what is expected of them at this stage either and might focus on the wrong things, leaving both you and them missing out on key items. At Nobul RS, we take the time to do in-depth interviews with all candidates before they meet with your business. We have a 96% successful placement rate. Our Candidate Managers work solely with candidates, taking the time to get to know them, understanding their background and skills in detail, and helping them to understand what the job they're applying for looks like day-to-day and what the expectations and responsibilities are for the role. By the time you meet a candidate at interview, they have been fully prepared and supported, they know about your business and what the job looks like well enough for you to have a detailed discussion about the ins and outs of what the opportunities and responsibilities of the role are, and for them to give you the applicable context of their skills to your business, not just a summary of previous activities in other organisations, giving you a much more meaningful conversation. Want to have a chat about dedicated Candidate Managers for your business as you recruit? Get in touch on 0161 518 9806 or email john@nobulrs.com. #recruitment #interview #TalentAcquisition #CandidateManager

Did you know that previous experience in role is only the 14th best predictor of future job performance? 😲 Knowing the difference between a candidate that can *get* the job, vs a candidate that can *do* the job is what sets people who are truly experts in recruitment apart from the rest. There are so many factors that go into assessing true alignment and in-role success opportunity, and often, a scan of a CV and initial interview won't separate one group from the other. And let's face it, the candidate probably won't have a clear picture of what is expected of them at this stage either and might focus on the wrong things, leaving both you and them missing out on key items. At Nobul RS, we take the time to do in-depth interviews with all candidates before they meet with your business. We have a 96% successful placement rate. Our Candidate Managers work solely with candidates, taking the time to get to know them, understanding their background and skills in detail, and helping them to understand what the job they're applying for looks like day-to-day and what the expectations and responsibilities are for the role. By the time you meet a candidate at interview, they have been fully prepared and supported, they know about your business and what the job looks like well enough for you to have a detailed discussion about the ins and outs of what the opportunities and responsibilities of the role are, and for them to give you the applicable context of their skills to your business, not just a summary of previous activities in other organisations, giving you a much more meaningful conversation. Want to have a chat about dedicated Candidate Managers for your business as you recruit? Get in touch on 0161 518 9806 or email john@nobulrs.com. #recruitment #interview #TalentAcquisition #CandidateManager

💼 The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) reports that the average cost of a bad hire for UK businesses is £132,000. This includes wasted salary, training expenses, and lost productivity. Ouch🩹 It's a big deal inviting people to join your business, and the financial risk of a mis-hire can be significant. Internal team members, no matter how many times they’ve hired before, always share with us that the risk and pressure of a potential mis-hire causes them huge amounts of stress, on top of their main job. We’ve spent decades learning what works and what doesn’t when it comes to identifying, attracting and retaining top talent, and whilst this might not be a popular opinion, the pitfalls for mis-hires are the same no matter what the industry. Poor recruitment practices dramatically increase the risk of a mis-hire, and unless your business has taken the time to fully assess your recruitment practices in detail, you’ll always be at an increased risk of mis-hires, for every role you recruit for. We have a 96% successful placement rate, and our main form of business (over 90%) for the past seven years has been from referrals of happy clients; give us a call for a non-commitment chat about how we could partner with you to transform your talent solutions and prime your business for growth. 0161 518 9806. Source: REC Recruitment and Recovery report. #recruitment #TalentAcquisition #UKBusinessRecruitment