TOP TIPS TO NAIL THAT JOB INTERVIEW So you’ve bagged a brilliant opportunity to interview at a company and you couldn’t be more excited. But how should you conduct yourself on the day? Here, we’ll share some of our job interview tips to help you land your next dream role. What are five good interview tips? 1. Make a great first impression One of...

FIVE TOP RECRUITMENT TIPS It’s currently more challenging than ever to recruit top talent – but that doesn’t mean that talent isn’t out there. It just means you need to think a little harder about how you approach every aspect of your hiring process! In this post, we share five simple but successful recruitment tips that can help transform your ...

THE IMPORTANCE OF ONGOING TALENT MANAGEMENT In our line of work we see a large number of candidates who cycle back through the recruitment process every 12-24 months. In some cases (for instance, with contracting work) this can be by design, and lucrative for all concerned. However, in many instances it is instead the result of candidates accept...

WORK-LIFE BALANCE: HELPING YOUR TEAM TACKLE THEIR BUCKET LIST Everyone’s heard of a bucket list. Most even remotely ambitious people have one. Yet precious few employers go big on bucket list rewards and recognition schemes. Those that don’t are missing a trick. In this post-pandemic world, working remotely has become the new norm, and creating ...

INTRODUCING DYNAMITE TRAINING: SECURING THE BEST TALENT IN A TOUGH MARKET As we’ve discussed previously on the Dynamite blog, the working world is very different to the way it was pre-pandemic. Businesses are putting out vacancies into a recruitment landscape where workers are currently reluctant to move. It’s creating a candidate’s market; one ...

HOW BRAND STORYTELLING CAN HELP YOUR RECRUITMENT Most people have one or two dream workplaces. These are the companies you’d give almost anything to simply interview with, let alone work for. Whether you’re reading this post as a candidate, or you’re on the employer side looking to attract talent, you probably have your own dream job or company....

A CANDIDATE'S GUIDE TO SALARY NEGOTIATIONS Our recently-published guide to managing counter offers made it clear that accepting an offer to keep you at your current company when you have an offer to go elsewhere is something you should be wary of. However, there are two situations where, as a candidate, entering into a negotiation with an employ...

LOOKING AHEAD: FIVE RECRUITMENT TRENDS WE EXPECT FOR 2022 2021 was a uniquely challenging year in recruitment, with available roles far outstripping the number of eligible quality candidates looking to make a move in the post-pandemic landscape. Many businesses were caught on the back foot as a result, finding it more difficult than before to fi...

OUR GUIDE TO COUNTER OFFERS FOR EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS Counter offers have become increasingly commonplace in the past ten years. When you consider the cost of recruiting a suitable replacement for most skilled roles, the hit to productivity while onboarding a newcomer, and the general lack of candidate availability in the current climate, it’s...

WHAT CANDIDATES WANT IN THE POST-COVID JOBS MARKET The Coronavirus has turned the world of work on its head in more ways than one. Going into 2020 we had a very healthy jobs market, but coming out the other side of numerous lockdowns and an awful lot of uncertainty, the demand for candidates now far outstrips the number of people actively seekin...