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What is safeguarding and safer recruitment?

Welcome to Recruiting Made Easy. In this series, we answer the questions that HR and in-house recruiters ask most often. The series covers recruiting processes, tech and regulation. Up next: What is Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment? Safeguarding: protecting people’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, helping them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. Safer Recruitment: a process that ensures each individual employed by an organisation is suitable for their role and poses no risk to service users or others. Safeguarding affects organisations that look after children or vulnerable adults. Hiring trustworthy staff is fundamental to safeguarding success, so we Read more…

CVMinder ATS partners with Pressburst

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Pressburst, the leading marketing solution for independent schools. Pressburst helps independent schools to quickly deliver news and jobs to relevant associations and jobsites. We have teamed up to make school job posting even easier. Any school can post its jobs to Tes Jobs, eTeach, AoC and other jobsites with CVMinder ATS. Now CVMinder ATS will pass those same jobs to Pressburst for onward delivery to key associations: Pressburst will also post school vacancies to: Pressburst offers low cost subscriptions and an excellent service to HR heads. We are proud to partner with Read more…

Tes Jobs denying application redirection to key jobsites

In a recent move, Tes Jobs is denying application redirection to some jobsites / job boards. Whilst reports are presently unconfirmed, our understanding is that these may include eTeach and MyNewTerm. Why is Tes Jobs denying application redirection to some jobsites? The short answer is that some jobsites are competitors to Tes Jobs. Sites like eTeach and MyNewTerm operate as jobsites with some applicant tracking capability. Let’s suggest that you use both Tes Jobs and eTeach. You might use the applicant tracking features of eTeach. In this case you’ll want to advertise a teacher vacancy on Tes Jobs and redirect Read more…

Care & Support Jobs – Free Job Postings

We’re pleased to announce that we have integrated CVMinder ATS with a free jobsite that’s made just for the care industry; Care & Support Jobs. Care & Support Jobs is managed by Cohesion and underpinned by their partner’s jobsite software. Cohesion is actually a specialist recruitment company based in the Midlands. You might imagine a conflict of interests here, but Cohesion doesn’t appear to leverage the job listings. Instead, they seem genuinely keen to give something back to the industry. We like that. Unlike other jobsites CVMinder ATS integrates with, this one requires individual customer request and setup. At their Read more…

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) make recruiters redundant?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the news and more people are learning about its capability. Some people look forward to AI-led advances whilst others fear the birth of a singularity and Judgment Day. Those closest to AI acknowledge the potential for human extinction, but hope to avoid it. By asking whether Artificial Intelligence will make recruiters redundant, I am narrowing the focus to keep things grounded and realistic. To cut to the chase, evidence shows that it’s just a matter of time before AI will be able to make recruiters redundant. However, it is less certain that AI will make Read more…

What is the ‘candidate experience’ and how do you improve it?

Your candidate experience matters when you are recruiting. A great candidate experience encourages talented people to apply for your jobs. So, what does ‘candidate experience’ mean and how can you improve it? The candidate experience is simply the series of touchpoints a person has with your organisation during the entire recruitment process. This starts with your advert and ends with onboarding. It includes all systems, communication, media and people in the recruiting process, so it’s time to check: Employer branding and your candidate experience Employer branding is slightly different from company branding. Company branding speaks to customers and prospects. It Read more…