Gender Neutral

How to write a gender neutral job advert

It’s been reported that writing adverts using gender-neutral terms results in jobs filling faster than those with masculine or feminine phrasing. If this is the case, why wouldn't you try and…


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Keeping your talent pool warm

A talent pool is a list of individuals that you might be interested in employing. These may be unsuccessful candidates who have applied for jobs previously but were just too good to discount…


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5 top tips to get recruitment back up to speed

Recruitment may have been the last thing on your mind over the last couple of weeks, but it’s important to have a strategy so that when things return to normal, you hit the ground running. So how…


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I’ve been made redundant, what should I do?

First things first, don’t panic. We’re in unchartered territory at the moment and seeing lots of people being furloughed or being let go. Here are our top seven tips on how to be prepared to get…


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What is a talent pool and should I have one?

Remember when someone would post their CV to you and ask you to keep their details on file should anything come along? Well, that filing cabinet was the talent pool of days gone by. Nowadays a…


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How to onboard staff – Top Tips

You could think that once you’ve hired an employee your work here is done, but that’s just not the case. Onboarding staff means integrating a new member into your business to enable them to do the…


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It's official! polkadotfrog the latest division of Spider.

The multi-award-winning Ipswich based recruitment company Spider leapt at the chance to acquire the polkadotfrog brand to strengthen their already successful Online Job Advertising and Specialist…