Right From The Start: Best practice for recruitment in a challenging market
As the fight for talent continues across diverse sectors, HR are finding themselves in a challenging position when it comes to finding the talent they need and getting that talent into their organisations. In this webinar three experts discussed their experience and best practices in ensuring they attracted and kept great talent.
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As the fight for talent continues across diverse sectors, HR are finding themselves in a challenging position when it comes to finding the talent they need and getting that talent into their organisations.
In The HR World’s recent webinar, Right From The Start: Best practice for recruitment in a challenging market, sponsored by recruitment as a services business Day One, three experts discussed their experience and best practices in ensuring they attracted and kept great talent.
As the fight for talent continues across diverse sectors, HR are finding themselves in a challenging position when it comes to finding the talent they need and getting that talent into their organisations. In The HR World’s recent webinar, Right From The Start: Best practice for recruitment in a challenging market, sponsored by recruitment as a services business Day One, three experts discussed their experience and best practices in ensuring they attracted and kept great talent.
Sian Wilson, Co-Founder / Executive Director, Day One; Claire Webster, HR Director, Avantia and Fiona Mason, Chief Human Resources Officer, RDT all put forward the current scenario where employers can find themselves overwhelmed by applicants for positions. The challenge they have is to sift through these candidates efficiently and effectively to find the right option for them. While technology can be used to take out some of the grunt work, the human touch is still very much required to ensure the right people come to the right positions at the right time.
The discussion covered the full recruitment cycle from understanding the talent required to ensuring the onboarding process works for each new addition to the workforce and it was interesting to note where and how efficiencies could be found within the process.
Diversity was also very much part of the discussion with the experts keen to describe how bias can be removed from the process, whether through sifting techniques or initial selection. This is also part and parcel of an ongoing strategy to extend the talent pool being considered by employers.
The webinar is available for on demand viewing and is well worth a watch for organisations of any size and sector. It is clear that employers will continue to win competitive advantage through their recruitment strategy and as such it is important to constantly be ready to update that process and stay ahead of the game.
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Day One is a technology-driven recruitment as a service company (RaaS) that tackles the inefficient parts of hiring, empowering companies to hire better.
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Sian Wilson: Co-Founder / Executive Director, Day One
Sian Wilson is a co-founder and Executive Director of Day One – a tech recruitment-as-a-service business that’s helps businesses Hire Better. Sian is a global leader with over 25 years of experience in growth, marketing, commercial and strategic organisational development in tech and skills-based businesses. Sian is a Fellow of the RSA, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Employability and Chartered Member of CIPD. She is the Vice-Chair of Tech UK’s Skills and Inclusivity Council and Non-Executive Director of Society Matters CIC. Sian is dedicated to helping businesses ‘Hire Better’ through verified skills and values matching in a fair and equitable way.
Claire Webster: HR Director, Avantia
Claire is responsible for creating and leading a human capital strategy that enables Avantia to achieve its business goals, overseeing a full remit of people related activities, from recruitment, performance management, talent development, to reward and recognition, engagement and wellbeing.
She believes in building a culture that encourages autonomy, is built on trust and encourages everyone through shared goal setting to aim high – and has been instrumental in developing a range of employee engagement programmes to help land Homeprotect a place on the coveted UK ‘Great Places to Work’ list for the last six years in a row.
She joined Avantia in 2015 and previously worked in a range of HR-related roles across finance and professional services, including learning and development, project/change management and generalist HR, with experience in global matrix management consultancies, asset managers and small boutique hedge funds.
Fiona Mason: Chief Human Resources Officer, RDT
Fiona began her career in the City, and worked at Bank of America for 12 years. After a period of consultancy she chose to join RDT permanently. She is passionate about working creatively with People in Technology and has supported RDT in its growth by providing interventions around recruitment, performance and learning. She knows that by investing in our people we invest in our business and Fiona’s remit is to ensure that the business hire and retain the best of the best. She has been with RDT since 2011 and has seen headcount more than double in that time.
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Simon Kent: Head of Content, The HR World
Simon Kent has been a freelance journalist in the field of HR and the workplace for over 20 years. He cut his teeth travelling the country asking people what they did for a living for The Guardian and developing an interest in how work and employees are managed.
He has written extensively for the national press, business and professional publications dedicated to general and specific HR functions, taking in HR tech, pay and benefits, legal, training, recruitment and more. He has edited HR and public sector magazines, digging out the best stories and liaising with senior level personnel and high-profile public sector leaders to bring great content to readers.
He has written books, blogs, white papers, features, profile, case studies and more. He has chaired round tables and brought high quality coverage online to a diverse platforms as electronic media has evolved. He continues to be motivated to find the stories and subjects that matter most to readers and ensure they deliver value every time.
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