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As a HR professional you're probably used to the expectation of doing more with less. Fortunately recruitment technology is developing at an eye-watering pace enabling HR professionals to efficiently manage their recruitment process and free up hours of time for other core HR tasks. 

With the rapid rise of technology there are now a number of Applicant Tracking Systems on the market all promising to be the perfect solution for your challenges. To help you narrow down your search we've put together 5 essential questions to ask potential vendors.  

Implementing new software into the business can be a daunting task for anyone, particularly if you're new to the technology and/or provider. In most cases technology is implemented to augment and enhance human performance however as a race, us humans are often sceptical to change!  

For a new implementation to be a success it's critical that the employees who will be using the software have bought into the technology and ideology behind the change. Although the benefits of change are high, so too are the stakes. With poor change management having the potential to detrimentally impact morale, performance and productivity it's critical that it's managed correctly. 

To help you to get off to a winning start we've put together our 5 top tips to implementation success! 

Just a few years ago recruitment technology was perceived by many as a luxury item for cash rich companies with huge hiring teams. Employed almost exclusively by the largest organisations with the deepest pockets SME friendly Applicant Tracking Systems were few and far between. 

Fast forward to the present day there are now several intuitive, affordable ATS solutions capable of helping small hiring teams to improve efficiency and performance without breaking the bank. 

With 60% of medium-sized companies now using an ATS are you too considering implementing an ATS into your business? Here are five ways in which you can benefit from having your own recruitment platform. 

If you're on the lookout for a new Applicant Tracking System (ATS) you won't find yourself short of options. Whilst having such choice puts you in full control, narrowing down the selection can often be a painstaking task. 

Let's be honest, you haven't got hours of time to spend on product demonstrations nor repeatedly explaining your challenges and requirements to each vendor. 

Creating a request for proposal (RFP) prior to approaching vendors can significantly reduce the amount of time spent on sourcing a solution. 

New to proposal requests? In this article we'll explain what one is and how you can use an RFP to extract the key information that YOU require from an ATS provider. 

2018 marked another year of great change, disruption and entertainment for us Brits. We survived the greatest chicken drought of the century, witnessed our prime minister 'dad dance' on national television and of course who could forget the headache of GDPR and the painful political meltdown of Brexit. But it wasn't all bad...The number of global democracies reached an all-time high as did the number of people in education, child labour is in decline and who could forget the glorious summer that we shared.

From Elon Musk's groundbreaking SpaceX mission to the drone that brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill, technology for better or worse was once again thrust into the limelight and dominated headlines. Tech continues to advance at an experiential rate with automation and AI becoming increasingly ingrained in our personal and professional lives, don't believe me? Just ask Alexa, Echo or Cortana! 

Tech giants Facebook and Instagram are now using deep learning and AI to draw value from status updates, fight cyber-crime and delete offensive comments and Netflix are using big data to predict which series or film you and I are most likely to enjoy. 

With AI and automation already seeping into many sectors could recruitment, the most people-centric industry known to man soon be dominated by robots dressed as humans?!...We think not.

Tech is a human enhancer and embracing technology with open arms can help HR teams and recruiters to automate time-consuming admin tasks and improve advertising performance whilst better managing and serving candidates on a day-to-day basis.  

In this article, we look back at what we've learnt from 2018 and what's in store for 2019 including the latest tech advancements giving our prediction on the tools that HR and recruitment leaders can harness to improve recruitment efficiency and performance.

Unfortunately, for recruiters and HR teams across the country recruitment isn't getting any easier. Advertising channels that once regularly produced results are becoming increasingly unpredictable in performance and negatively impacting key hiring metrics. With a rapidly evolving candidate market it's never been more important to be able to track, measure and interpret recruitment data with speed and accuracy.

To stay ahead of the curve and make meaningful, pragmatic decisions you need access to intelligent information that's simple to digest. 

In this article we take a look at Talentvine's key reporting features and how those features are helping HR teams to learn, adapt and improve their recruitment process and performance. 

Morses Club is one of the largest home credit providers in the UK, with over 200,000 customers. They work with around 1900 agents all over the country and employ staff at their branches and central Support Centre near Leeds. 

Once-upon-a-time recruitment advertising was a simple, straight forward process. A quick phone call to the local newspaper/ magazine and your advert was duly printed in the following addition. 

Fast forward a decade or two and the rise of the internet and digital advertising has all but extinct offline recruitment advertising.

With online recruitment advertising still a mystery to many the easy option is to continue to use age old Recruitment Agencies to fill vacant roles. 

Recruitment Agencies are capable of delivering fantastic results however they themselves use online recruitment to source candidates via job boards. 

New to online recruitment? Want to save your business money when hiring? In this article we'll help you get to grips with online recruitment (job board) advertising providing details on it's strengths, weaknesses and when to use it for maximum effect.

Announced in April 2016 and imposed in May 2018 the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) dominated business conversations for what seemed like an eternity.  

For months those four syllables sent cold shivers down the spines of anyone who's role involved handling personal data. An absence of meaningful public information made GDPR complex to understand and widely open to interpretation. 

Exacerbated further by the sometimes contradictory information provided by pop-up 'GDPR experts' many of us were left providing ambiguous answers and scrambling to our desk to ask our trusted friend Google for the answers. 

Sound familiar? Don't worry you're not alone. GDPR became the second most googled query behind the 2018 phenomenon that was Bitcoin.

With the dust settling and several companies now paying the price for poor compliance we've put together our GDPR knowledge in this helpful blog to help HR professionals, IT teams and business leaders to fully understand how to stay in control of recruitment data and ensure compliance.