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Recruitment

The Hiring and Recruitment small business archive. Expert advice to help UK small businesses optimise their recruiting strategies and processes to hire great employees. Includes guides and tips on attracting the right candidates by creating suitable job descriptions, offering the right incentives and choosing appropriate recruitment platforms.

Startup Funding and Grants

How can you finance a recruitment start-up?

What are the options available to those planning to open a recruitment business? Here, we find out.

Employing & managing staff

Why periodic employee screening is important

It is important for employers to check every candidate before recruiting. How do businesses go about screening employees?

Employing & managing staff

Graduate recruitment trends

Here, Charlie Taylor, founder and CEO of Debut, explores the potential graduate recruitment trends.

News

Businesses reveal their top recruitment priorities for 2018

A new piece of research from CV-Library, reveals businesses top recruitment priorities for 2018: from sourcing candidates directly and building talent pools for the future, to establishing a strong employer brand and succession planning.

News

Brexit to revolutionise SMEs’ recruitment strategies

Brexit is transforming SMEs’ recruitment strategies, as they try to keep up with the changes, research finds.

News

Talent is number one priority for SME investment

SMEs face various challenges when it comes to hiring new staff, with a third of SMEs reporting a shortage of necessary expertise among applicants as the main hurdle in hiring.

News

UK businesses prepare for the September recruitment rush

Businesses across the UK are preparing for the September recruitment rush, with job numbers soaring in some of the UK’s key cities last month.

Employing & managing staff

How to improve your recruitment success as a small business

In this piece, Jerome Forde, founder of FordeCloud, explores the strategies that can improve your small business recruitment success.

Employing & managing staff

How to get the most from your recruitment agency

Here, James Calder, CEO of Distinct Recruitment, guides us on how to get the most out of your recruitment agency.

Accounting

Hiring an accountant: When and why you need one

In this piece, Karen Barrett, founder and CEO of Unbiased, discusses the finer points of taking on an accountant.

Employing & managing staff

How to recruit the best talent for your business

How do you make sure you’re offering the job to ‘the one’? Here are some tips to help you recruit the right talent for your needs.

Employing & managing staff

Managing the hiring process is key challenge for SMEs

96 per cent of people in HR find identifying qualified candidates to be the greatest challenge in the hiring process.

Business Technology

Future-proof your business communications set-up

Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings

Business Loans

A guide to getting a small business loan

Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.

Business Technology

Friendly guide – top tips for small businesses switching to VoIP

With the landline shutdown coming fast, there’s never been a better time to switch to VoIP. Don’t let your small business be left behind!

Export & Import

Avoid delays with exports and imports

Many factors can affect products’ journeys from A to B. Here are some tips for best practice for successful shipping in the modern world