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Innovative ways to meet the challenges of the future. A morning presentation by Dr Ian Lin - Tuesday 29th July, 2008.

How many times have you lost your best candidate in the recruitment process? One of our clients shared an experience with us the other day as they had recruited an Engineering Manager.. 10 minutes before he was due to start on his first day he made the phone call.  No doubt there had been a significant investment of time and effort in recruitment.

Is it true that, eventually, instead of the candidates going to the job, the jobs will go to them ... or is this just reserved for those elite few who are attractive to the aloof search firms?

In this candidate short market it becoming increasingly difficult to attract a decent response to any recruitment advertisement. What can YOU do ?   Not every business can afford to just increase their advertising budget and increasing the size of their advert or place it closer to the front position to Increase the quality and volume of your response? 

Here are 10 practical ways for you to maximise the quality of your ad response without just spending more money:

What practical things can you do to increase your recruitment success rate to over 90% when using a recruitment firm. We often call them our "9 golden rules of engagement" when discussing with clients.

Over the last decade as most businesses have focused more keenly on the bottom line they have embraced the concept of contract employees in “supposedly” non-core areas such as engineering trades and project activities.

What is now common practice at the trade level can present the same benefits to many professional recruitment exercises, if managed properly.