Rectec Blog

Is recruitment technology the cure to “quiet quitting”?

Quiet Quitting seems to have taken the recruitment commentariat by storm over the last couple of weeks.  From major national newspapers to...

How Rectec can help you create the perfect recruitment tech stack.

A message from our founder, Rob Green. 2022 has represented a year of change, a year of challenges and a year of opportunity.  The story of the...

How does recruitment tech help retain staff?

Targeted use of recruitment tech can, if utilised well, be the cure to persistent recruitment outreach failure. But can the very same recruitment...

What is the difference between an RPO and an MSP?

Companies on the hunt for recruitment solutions will bump into a whole bunch of industry-standard, but sometimes vague, recruitment acronyms - two...

The Rectec guide to ATS and recruitment CRM comparison.

So, you’re in the market for a new ATS or Recruitment CRM. Where do you start your search?  There are over 450 applicant tracking system...

How to find the perfect Applicant Tracking System for your business.

There are many, many applicant tracking systems and recruitment tech providers in the market, many of which offer incredible, game-changing...

Will the blockchain change recruitment?

The digital world sits on the cusp of a fully realised Web 3.0. But what does this mean for the humble job seeker, and how will decentralisation in...

How does recruitment tech reduce bias in the recruitment process?

For all the incredible work recruiters, HR professionals and business leaders do to reduce bias within recruitment, it sadly persists. There is,...

How well positioned recruitment tech can help startups.

The concepts that sit behind lean management and agile leadership strategies are often guiding principles for startups. But when budgets are...

Brand modernisation, candidate inclusivity and how workplaces are changing.

News broke this week of one of the world’s most recognisable brands changing a long-held hiring rule.  This shift in employee expectation both opens...

Top Skills for Digital Nomads.

Dear digital nomads - do you know what skills you need to really excel at your craft? The age of the digital nomad is here.  This new iteration...

How tech can help temporary recruitment services improve and thrive in the post-pandemic landscape.

As we continually remind our readership, tech is no replacement for the important, tangible relationship building between candidate, recruiter and...

Job Benefits, and the changing nature of the work perk.

Like almost every other facet of modern work, the humble “work perk” has gone through something of a pandemic-shaped reset since 2019. But rest...

Can measuring the candidate experience improve recruitment ROI? Tech can help!

An eternal battle rages within recruitment - the great war of ROI, and how to measure whether a recruitment service is “effective” in our new...

Tech Leadership and Staff Management in a post-COVID world.

The great leaders of the last couple of years have shown extreme fortitude and worked with incredible effort to shore up the business landscape...

How to start upskilling your workforce, and why it’s so important.

To upskill or not to upskill? - the decidedly un-Shakespearean essential question on the tip of every employers’ tongue in 2022. “Upskilling'' is...

What is #WorkTech and how is it changing recruitment?

WorkTech has slowly become one of the more prominent terms that encapsulate digital change in our global workplace.  But what exactly is WorkTech,...

How to elevate your career in 5 easy steps.

The pandemic pulled a lot of work-related expectations into focus.  Many millions of workers across the UK pulled the trigger on established careers...

The Rectec Q1 Review

A message from our Founder! Welcome to the first of what we hope will be a series of quarterly updates on the goings-on at Rectec! To say Q1 has...

How to hire more efficiently in 2022

If Rectec knows anything, it’s the value of efficiency within recruitment. The entire premise of our game-changing ATS and recruitment CRM...

How AI is helping recruitment in 2022.

The recruitment industry has, like many service-based industries, benefitted immensely from the spread of digital tools and the integration of...

Rectec Compare is 1 Year old!

We’ve barely had a chance to catch our breath over the last few months, but today is a big day in the Rectec camp - it's Rectec Compare's first...

RPO and Recruitment Tech – can the two work together?

In our disrupted new normal, many employers are turning to Recruitment Process Outsourcing to shore up their recruitment shortfalls. But novel...

The changing face of employment law in 2022.

Employment Law and its changing iterations is increasingly becoming headline news as the effects of the pandemic continue to put pressure on...

How to succeed at failure – a guide for job seekers suffering from career halting.

Rectec are uniquely positioned in the recruitment matrix between technical vendor and employer, connecting game-changing technical solutions to both...

How to become a much better recruitment negotiator.

This is a guest post from tech, business and professional development writer Luna Nikolai. Following a hugely transformative two years, the...

The History and Future of the 4 Day Working Week.

Over the last 2 weeks, a global pilot scheme for a 4 Day Working Week was launched. In the UK, 30 companies, incorporating around 600 employees in...

3 simple, but highly effective ways to calculate ATS ROI.

This is a guest post from our good friend Phil Strazzulla, the founder of SelectSoftware Reviews. Today, factors like the Covid-19 pandemic, the...

How to do an Employer Brand MOT.

New Year, New Employer Brand? While many millions of workers spend the first quarter of every new year having a personal “reset”, we think it’s wise...

Long Live 2021! Rectec’s Year in Review.

As another strange, incredible, challenging, yet successful year draws to an end, I’ve been personally reflecting on what happened in 2021, which,...

Why focusing on Gen Z hiring strategies can help secure multi-generational talent.

As 2021 comes to an end, we can look to the future with confident trepidation. The post-pandemic recovery continues apace, and innovations continue...

Tech, Recruitment and the Future – what does the WorkTech industry have in store for us next year?

According to Deloitte, “nascent” technical concepts have “captured the imagination of researchers and the investment dollars of venture...

What is an Applicant Tracking System?

This is the second part of a two part blog series on Customer Relationship Management and ATS within the recruitment space.  This blog aims to...

The top 3 things we learned from IHR Live Bristol.

Yesterday we were guests of IHR Bristol, and once again the event was a huge success. We met some amazing people, the speakers were all immensely...

The top 4 ways you can improve your recruitment branding.

But recruitment is still the business of relationships and trust. Job seekers don’t (yet) want to put their entire careers fully in the hands of an...

The top 5 most important things we learned from IHR LIVE Manchester.

Two days ago we attended the In-house Recruitment (IHR) Live industry event in Manchester. As it was our second ever in-person event, we were...

How to beat The Great Resignation.

Our working world is more connected, more digital and more fragile than ever. As we edge towards a fully realised post-pandemic working environment,...

Tips for Attracting Millennial Workers.

Millennials were born between 1980 and 1996, so we are talking about employees aged around aged 25-41. Most millennials will be experienced, and in...

Top 10 Tools for Recruiters.

With recruitment being such a busy and challenging industry to work in, you inevitably need to juggle a range of different tasks. There are many...

5 Tips for Being More Productive as a Recruiter.

Recruitment is such a busy role that it can be difficult to stay productive and take care of the tasks you need to. Before you know it, the day is...

Top Tips on How to Headhunt Candidates.

Headhunting has been around for a long time in different versions. Let’s discuss this in the context of recruitment though, rather than the literal...

How to Expand Your Recruitment Business.

When you start a recruitment business, the last thing you want is for it to remain static. You should look at ways you can grow your business, as in...

How to Use Mobile Recruitment to Attract Candidates.

As the name would suggest, mobile recruitment involves recruiting via mobile technology, including smartphones and tablets.  Smartphone...

Top Employee Retention Strategies for 2021.

It’s becoming more difficult than ever to find candidates to fill roles, and even more challenging to retain good talent. When employees are happy,...

Struggling to Recruit? – How to Improve Your Success as a Recruiter.

Recruitment is a challenging industry and working as a recruiter is much more demanding than many from outside of the industry understand. There are...

How to Hire the Right Person.

There are a lot of pressures on the shoulders of recruiters. On one hand, there is the expectation that they will fill roles quickly, and on the...

6 Benefits of Introducing Succession Planning into Your Business.

Succession planning is a strategy used by companies to help them plan for future recruitment needs. It involves identifying where vacancies will...

Top Reasons Why Candidates are Rejecting Your Offers.

When it comes to securing top talent, the job market is highly competitive. It is not enough to advertise a role and wait for an onslaught of...