On Thursday 2nd November, it was our pleasure to go along to the Local Authority Challenge East as main sponsors and advisers. The event saw 22 teams from local councils from across the East of England take on a gruelling day of role playing tasks. Each team took on the role of the senior management…
In a candidate-driven market, competition for the best talent is fierce. Standing out from the competition, attracting the right people and achieving your goals can be particularly challenging. This is especially true in the capital, where candidates have more choice in terms of opportunity than possibly anywhere else in the country. We’ve recently had…
There is a famous advertising quote that anyone trying to sell anything would do well to keep in mind – “Customers buy for their reasons, not yours”. Before we go any further, if as an employer looking to recruit, you think that you are not now in the advertising business – think again. When…
I recently posted on LinkedIn about the extortionate costs a council had reportedly been charged for taking an ‘external support and search approach’ for recruiting a senior level post. To add insult to injury, in this particular instance an appointment wasn’t made, making the cost even harder to stomach. The reported fees really were mind…
2017 has been a huge year for SmartSearch – working on a record number of campaigns. For those still unaware of how SmartSearch operates, the service was designed to tackle the prominent challenges in recruiting to senior, executive and hard to fill positions within the public sector. Using a combination of online search methods and…
Following on from our incredible success at this year’s PPMA awards – we’re extremely excited by the prospect of yet more awards glory this year as the Come Back to Social Work campaign has been shortlisted for a Personnel Today award. The campaign, run in partnership with the Local Government Association, aimed to address the…
On Thursday June 22nd June 2017, Jobsgopublic hosted the fourth in a series of breakfast events in partnership with the In-house Recruitment Network. The aim of these events is to bring together a diverse range of HR and recruitment specialists from the public sector and provide a space to dissect the key topics, successes and…
We often hear the line ‘candidates don’t look for jobs in the summer’ and therefore it’s a bad time to advertise. However, this is very much a myth. Traffic to Jobsgopublic was in fact up by 20% year on year last Summer and showed the same high numbers as June and September. With technology playing…
Jobsgopublic are delighted to announce the full launch of their brand-new education arm, Chapter Education. Chapter was born out of a long-standing desire to do everything we can to help schools tackle the challenges they face in their recruitment. Combining nearly two decades of recruitment experience with education HR expertise, Chapter are perfectly placed to…
As the Apprenticeship Levy enters it’s fourth month, it continues to be a much discussed topic throughout the recruitment and HR worlds. We are delighted to have Caroline Nugent, PPMA President, write an exclusive piece for us to provide her thoughts. As President of the PPMA, it’s always a privilege to share the views of…
