Create a Positive Interview Experience
Ensuring a potential candidate walks away from an interview feeling positive and motivated is a win-win situation. The interview process is a critical touchpoint in the hiring journey. It is equally an opportunity to attract top candidates by showcasing your company’s culture and values, as it is to assess the candidate’s suitability for the role….
Setting Hiring Objectives for the Year Ahead
“If You Fail to Plan, You Are Planning to Fail” This quote is attributed to Benjamin Franklin; no doubt you have heard it said, read it written, or seen it dolled up in a fancy font and posted somewhere online. As with many motivational quotes that get trotted out in a multitude of corporate presentations,…
Why We Say Boo! to Ghosting
The term “ghosting” recently found its way into the cultural lexicon to describe the awkward and sudden termination of a personal relationship, by cutting off all communication and contact with someone. The term ghosting may be relatively novel, but in recruitment, this story is as old as The Canterville Ghost. Although, the relationship between recruiters…
Are You Planning for Additional Headcount in Q1 next year?
With almost 30 years’ experience as a specialist IT recruitment agency, Clicks understands that there are some sentiments about recruitment that linger for hiring managers. Recruiting for your team can often feel like a distraction from core responsibilities, and an additional task outside of management’s ‘day job’. That’s partly true. Which is where we come…
Hiring: Deciding Between Two Great Candidates
Hiring managers face many challenges. The technology sector is very dynamic and fluctuates, and at times you can find that the talent pool in certain areas is quite deep. While this may sound like a great problem to have, too many candidates for too few roles isn’t good for anyone. Make The Correct Hiring Decision…
How to Write a Great Position Description
And Attract Top Talent A good hire starts with writing a good position description. In the same way that employers gain insights about job seekers through CVs, job seekers gather information about prospective employers through position descriptions (PDs). According to Clicks’ latest IT Recruitment & Retention Report, employers have reported fewer rejections for job offers…
Avoid These Hiring Hazards and Recruit Like a Boss
When a role becomes vacant in an organisation, it often becomes a scramble to fill it within a period-of-notice timeframe. This usually means rolling out existing processes (including repurposing old job ads and position descriptions) in an effort to expedite hiring a like-for-like replacement. The role is quickly published on a job board and hiring…
Crafting Effective Position Descriptions Part 2: Highlighting the Candidate
In the first part of this blog series, we explored the elements that employers should aim to include in their position descriptions (PDs) to promote their company and attract top talent. Now, let’s delve into the key aspects of highlighting the candidate in the PD. By incorporating the right language, sections, and key criteria, you…
Crafting Effective Position Descriptions – Showcasing Your Company to Attract Top Talent
The hiring market is constantly evolving. The needs of job seekers and employers change on a regular basis. Employers gain valuable insights about job seekers from CVs, just as job seekers gather information about prospective employers from position descriptions (PDs). While it’s important to outline the requirements and responsibilities of a role, employers should also…
7 Tips for Crafting the Perfect Job Ad to Attract the Best Candidates
When hiring, it makes sense to focus on the task at hand. But the reality is, if you are hiring for specific skills, like IT, you are competing against other companies to attract candidates from a limited tech talent pool. There are currently 772 jobs listed for Senior Developers in Melbourne. This number would be…
Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Hire an IT Contractor
Hiring IT contractors is a great way to bring new skills and expertise to your organisation. It may make sense to hire a contractor if you need someone with specific skills for short-term or project-based work. We have been helping clients recruit IT contractors for more than 20 years, and currently have hundreds of tech…
How to Best Assess Technical Skills When Hiring IT Roles
When it comes to hiring for IT positions, figuring out if candidates have the right technical skills can be a daunting task. But it’s a critical one to get right. Poor hiring decisions an cost time and money and hurt team morale. Luckily, we’re here to help with our top tips on how to best…
5 Reasons to Consider Using a Recruitment Agency When Hiring
Hiring can be a full-time job, so it’s hard to recruit if you are already delivering a project or managing a team. Luckily, hiring is all recruitment agencies do. If you’ve thought about getting some extra help, here are some of the reasons why you may choose to work with an agency. 1. Get access…
How to Improve the Quality of the Applications You Receive
Making the right hiring decisions is vital to the success of any organisation. You increase your chances of getting it right by starting with a strong pool of candidates. But how do you increase the quality of your job applications you receive? Here are three simple things you can do! 1. Create Compelling Job Ads…
How to Write an Effective Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement with Examples
Including an equal employment opportunity statement (EEO) in your job ad can help you attract more candidates when hiring. 70% of job seekers value an organisation’s commitment to diversity when considering prospective employers. But if you are going to include an EEO statement, you want to ensure its not a box-ticking exercise. If the message is…
To Shake or not to Shake – Are Handshakes Dead?
I was having drinks with a friend when I bumped into an old colleague. Something interesting happened after I made introductions. My friend – a consummate professional – reached out to offer her hand, but instead of shaking it, my former colleague put up both his hands. It looked like he was being held up…
Why We Need to Stop Saying ‘Culture Fit’
Culture Fit is a Bad Idea and Could be Discriminating At the risk of being unpopular, in this edition of our ‘Achieving diversity through recruitment’ series, I want to explore using the term culture fit when hiring. Culture fit was a concept introduced in the 1980s to shift the focus beyond skills and experience to personalities and…
Critical Steps to Ensure Candidates Accept Your Job Offer – Part 3
You’ll know two critical things about making job offers if you have been following our latest hiring advice series. Firstly, it is essential not to make a formal offer until you know the candidate will accept. The second vital step is to find out what else is happening with your candidates outside of work. If you missed it, make…
Critical Steps to Ensure Candidates Accept Your Job Offer – Part 2
We recently talked about the highs and lows of recruitment – finding the perfect candidate for a role, only to have them knock back your job offer. But there are things you can do to increase your chance of securing the best candidates for your jobs. If you missed it, review our top tip in…
Critical Steps to Ensure Candidates Accept Your Job Offer – Part 1
Imagine you are on track to close out the roles you’ve been working tirelessly to fill. You have taken the time to optimise your recruitment process, have written great position descriptions, and candidates have commented on the positive interview experience. But when it comes to making the offer, you’re still experiencing higher than expected rejection…
How to Successfully Set Diversity Goals in Six Simple Steps
My mum always said, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. I’ve tried to adopt this approach in most areas of my life, and it has served me well. That’s why when it comes to achieving greater diversity in your workplace, setting goals is key. It provides you and your organisation with clarity…
Achieving Workplace Diversity Through Recruitment
Tackling unconscious bias Workplace diversity is important to organisations and candidates alike. Research has shown financial performance, innovation and improved decision making are just some of the many benefits of a diverse workforce. 70% of job seekers value an organisation’s commitment to diversity when considering prospective employers. Diverse workplaces help create successful businesses that job seekers…
What Is the First Step to Achieving Diversity in Your Workplace?
I believe diversity, equity, and inclusion should be an integral component of any organisation’s business strategy. At Clicks, we wholeheartedly believe our talented and diverse workforce is the reason we’re so successful. This diversity helps us both culturally and commercially. Fortunately, there is a wealth of data available about the benefits of diversity in the…
The Key to Conducting an Effective Job Interview
The key to conducting an effective job interview is thoughtful and considered planning. Before delving into how to best plan for an interview, let’s take a look at why structured interviews work: Provides confidence in decision making (and helps with making quicker decisions). Ensures the best fit for the job is hired – not the…
How to Quickly Hire the Right Person for the Job
Working Exclusively With Your Recruitment Agency Can Help Deliver the Result You Want. Are you hiring and need to engage a recruitment agency? There’s a range of reasons why you may need some extra support. You’ve already conducted a search without being able to fill the vacancy, or you simply don’t have the time or resources. Whatever the reason may be, you’re probably looking to find the right candidate fast. Before you pick up the phone to call all the recruiters in your contacts list, consider working with only one agency. I’m going to bust some common myths when it comes to engaging multiple agencies. I hope this helps you get the most out of your partnership with your recruitment agency, and most importantly, fill that role.