While many places around the world are opening up, loosening restrictions, and slowly putting the pandemic behind them, its effects will be felt around the world for years to come, possibly decades. It has meant adapting and facing many new, unprecedented hurdles, for business and job seeker alike. Unemployment levels have gone up; job vacancies […]
As specialists in the manufacturing sector, we’re used to dealing with the ever-changing needs of our clients, particularly when it comes to volume. How many heads you need to hire can vary massively, whether due to seasonal requirements, an uptick in business, or other miscellaneous factors which might mean you need people on board – […]
As business leaders, we talk a lot about customer experience – that is, the journey your customer goes on when they engage with your business. But what about candidate experience? Curating a great one should be a key part of your recruitment strategy and process. Candidate experience encompasses every interaction an individual has with your […]
As business owners, Executives or HR leaders, we all have various processes to manage and analyse. It’s our job to understand what’s working, what’s not, where we’re being productive and more. Finding incredible staff is such a fundamental part of running a business, but the process itself sometimes falls by the wayside in terms of […]
A lot has changed this year, from how we interact with each other – customers, colleagues, family and friends alike – to how we go about our day, maintain relationships and communicate. More than anything, what’s changed is the way we work and how we conduct business. So it follows that your recruitment process should […]
It’s often said that the hardest part of running a business is finding the right staff. Staff who are reliable, competent and committed don’t come around every day, so making the right decisions with regards to hiring is crucial. So, when your business faces a challenge or stepping-stone which you’ve deigned to solve by bringing […]
It sounds cliché but, as a jobseeker, it really is important to see every missed opportunity as bringing you one step closer to the next. Interviewing is a skill like any other, meaning practice is important – so, take every rejection as a learning experience. Instead of dwelling on the result, ask yourself: how can […]
Hiring in the manufacturing industry is often done a little differently to other more ‘corporate’ sectors. For starters, decisions are not always made based solely on what we can see on a resume – reason being, there’s often a lot to be said for the hands-on, more technical skills which a piece of text just […]
For many business leaders, staffing agencies are a necessary evil; there, I said it. Like many other outsourced business processes – marketing, IT support, accounting – finding the right partner is absolutely key; not having done so is perhaps why so many organizations have had what they’d consider a ‘bad experience’ with a recruitment company. […]
Here at NLG, we’re certainly proud to call ourselves recruitment consultants – emphasis on the consultancy part. When it comes to hiring and recruiting, finding the talent is merely the first act; the show goes on and, particularly operating within the manufacturing sector, one of the struggles we often hear of clients coming up against […]