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Blog, Recruiting
Tech recruitment in London: Luring and sourcing top tech talent
As a recruiter or hiring manager in the hypercompetitive tech recruitment landscape, you’re likely fighting tooth and nail for those coveted developers who, frustratingly enough for you, have the luxury...
Blog, Culture
Evolution of a company retreat: from product updates to breaking bread
Some people call it a corporate retreat. Others call it a company gathering. Still others call it an all-hands. Workable CEO Nikos Moraitakis calls his company’s own tradition of the...
Blog, Recruiting
How you can benefit from building a talent community
Matt Buckland has a long career in recruitment, and according to him, it shows. “I started in recruitment in about the year 2000,” the veteran talent acquisition thought leader grins...
Blog, People
The power of a corporate retreat: 5 reasons why you should do it
A corporate retreat can be a surprisingly efficient motivator for your company – even when it comes to the bottom line. Consider this scenario: You’re the boss of a multinational...
Blog, Recruiting
Building a winning engineering team: Workable CTO tells his story
When you talk to Spyros Magiatis about his experience building the engineering team that owns Workable’s recruitment software, you quickly understand that it was like Rome – it didn’t happen...
Blog, Recruiting
Wooing top tech talent: Recruiting in the Boston tech scene
A memorable Workable event on tech recruiting opened with some surprising statistics, courtesy of Culture Amp’s Joshua Bach: “10% of people [leave] within the first six months of starting a...
Blog, People
“Employee promotion to manager” time: 4 tips to inspire your stars
There are two crucial elements to successful people management: first, you want to reward your most capable employees, and second, a common reward is to promote them to a position...
Recruiting metrics, Tutorials
Devil in the details: The cost of the hiring process and what you can do about it
If you're a recruiter at a large scaling organization, you likely are – or are soon going to be – in charge of finding great candidates for multiple departments and...
Blog, People
Employee development and the Peter Principle: Why your managers keep messing up
“Look around you where you work, and pick out the people who have reached their level of incompetence. You will see that in every hierarchy the cream rises until it...
Blog, Recruiting
The cost of replacing an employee – it’s more than you think
When you’re an HR manager, you know this drill all too well: Sally walks into your office one day and deposits herself in a seat across from your desk with...