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We specialise in doing one thing incredibly well: facilitating in-house corporate recruiting teams and RPO providers to be the best they can be. We do this by providing them proven recruitment talent and outstanding bespoke training.
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You used a recruitment firm to hire a recruiter?
So why would anyone with a corporate recruiting team ever think to use an external provider to find a team member?
Well maybe not any old agency, what about us!? It’s a pretty standard question we have to answer along with some others; (more…)
Free Training for In-house Recruitment Professionals
To celebrate rolling out our fantastic specialist training course to individual delegate days we’re giving away something we think is really valuable… Places on our courses!
Command and Conquer: Rec Alert 1.0
We all like to think we have control over our lives and our work, but how to balance this with the requirement of being flexible and reactive enough to market conditions and new opportunities? Everyone loves a bit of strategy, or at least there are plenty of people who like to think they are strategic in their work. (more…)
Information Station – What price an ATS?
Recruitment is all about information: gathering information, processing information, using information. Recruitment services are intangible, you can’t frame a cracking process and hang it on your wall. Recruitment is about people and people change all the time. People move jobs, move home, take different directions in life, get promoted, get fired, have families.
If information is where you add value as a recruiter, then the way you process that information, store that information and update that information is so important. I often wonder what recruiters did before computers, but these days we store our information on ATS systems, we update details on LinkedIn, Twitter or Xing and we use that classic recruiter tactic of picking up the phone. Of course, when your database gets to a certain size, it is tough to have a system that is always up to date unless you have the manpower to pump out calls to all of your potential candidates.
New Training Courses Released
Welcome to the training revolution!
Something we’ve been hugely proud of at Aspen in recent times has been our partnership work in training and developing in-house recruitment professionals. We’ve always said that our support for the natural evolution and growth of in-house recruiting will eventually impact on the agency sector that we’ve worked in for many years but we’d never want to stop working on something we’re passionate about, IN-HOUSE RECRUITING.
In-house Corporate Recruitment in 2012 – What the hell’s going on??
Well that seems to be the question most of our good friends in the industry are asking at the moment. The odd whisper here of “what do you think X’s plans are this year”, “what are you hearing about salaries at…”
Well we have good news… We think we know just what’s going on so here’s our very quick market take in terms of opportunities for recruiters.
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Which charity should we support in 2012?
A pretty short post this one but I’m looking for some input from the marvellous recruitment community. I and my businesses over the years have raised some decent money for the likes of The Childrens’ Trust, Woodhatch Park Project, Cancer Journey, and Target MD and I’d like to do the same again this year.
Say “aaaaah” – Healthcheck time…
So we’ve been back a couple of days and in many ways the tone of the first week of January often sets the precedent for what the year holds in my experience so here’s what we are seeing and hearing…
An Idiot Abroad – Franco wheels out the phrasebook
European recruiters I salute you! Recently Aspen In-House has worked extensively with European recruitment professionals across our dear continent. It has been an interesting example of what recruitment means to different markets, businesses and individuals. Above all it has been an education for me and an experience I thoroughly enjoyed and will continue.
Holding a recruitment grudge! When should you just let it go??
So I’ll be brief. With my business launch earlier in the year a fresh start was accompanied by new branding and it seems in the minds of some a clean slate…
- First day back from holidays and my lovely in-house recruiter only group CIRE (Centre for In-house Recruiting Excellence) is stuck on 1,999…
- Looking forward to our first CIRE networking drinks evening in Bristol this evening, if you're in the area and are an in-house recruiter it…
- We've just updated the "jobs" page of our website. Plenty of exciting opportunities particularly for multiple language…http://t.co/8ihZlZ1L
