Rectec Blog
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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...
Introducing the Rectec Marketplace
Last year we launched Rectec Compare - our unique recruitment technology comparison service which connects our clients with highly matched...
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...
What is a recruitment CRM?
This is the first part of a two part blog series on Customer Relationship Management, applicant tracking systems and recruitmenmt CRMs. This blog...
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...