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In these blogs, you’ll find handy hints, tips and insights into all things relating to job boards, recruitment advertising and the hiring process. We cover most elements of recruitment from job board advertising, interviewing and selection, applicant experience, recruitment technology, recruitment legislation and much more!

We have lots of useful content here so please do have a nosey and don’t hesitate to get in touch with your thoughts or questions!

 

Mental Health Awareness Week

How dogs can help with mental health in a working environment. Find out how Storm our office pooch helps the team…

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Take our Job Seeker Survey

Flat Fee Recruiter conducts an ongoing job seeker survey to monitor trends and behaviors. Please complete the survey here…

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

How to Attract Candidates as you Fight for Talent Against your Competitors

Recruitment Advertisement

Protect your Employer Brand

Protecting your brand has never been so important! As candidate numbers reach an all-time low in the UK, never has there been a time when looking after your existing and future talent has been as important.

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Online Video Interviewing – Top Tips to Keep Recruitment Moving

Recruitment Technology

Flat Fee Recruiter Customers are 100% Happy!

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Fully Branded Advertising with Flat Fee Recruiter

Make your business and vacancies more visible than ever and get real candidates for all your jobs, with the Flat Fee Recruiter full branded advertising solution

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Get Even More From Flat Fee Recruiter

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

CV Screening Service

Flat Fee Recruiter is helping all types of businesses to recruit with additional services like CV screening to support busy employers.

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Recruiting in the Education Sector

It’s no secret that the Education Sector faces huge recruitment and retention challenges.  As unemployment across the UK hits a record low, but how do I attract good candidates for a fraction of the price?

Hints and tips

Reed CV Database Search – Reach passive candidates.

At Flat Fee Recruiter, we are really excited to be the first fixed fee recruiter to partner the Reed CV database search!  This is aimed to bolster your direct hiring strategy and target the passive job seekers (candidates who may…

Recruitment Technology

Using Boolean to Search CV Databases

Searching vast CV databases can seem a little daunting. This is where using Boolean logic in the keyword field will really help you. Here is a quick starter guide.

Recruitment Technology

Tips to Approaching Passive Candidates

As the applicant market continues to tighten, becoming savvy with your recruitment strategy is essential if you are to hire the best talent for your business.  Surveys report that 70-80% of people are open to opportunities but the vast majority…

Recruitment Process

GDPR – Myth Busters About Email

To help you understand more about GDPR and emailing / marketing, we hope these common myths and explanations will help you.

Recruitment Advertisement

GPDR: What it Means For Your Candidate Data & Processes

As the Employer (Data Controller) you probably have questions surrounding how Flat Fee Recruiter (Data Processor) is going to process your candidate data under your instructions, here we answer some questions

Recruitment Legislation Uncategorized

Do You Need Luck in Recruitment?

At Flat Fee Recruiter, we do our best to remove all the luck out of recruitment advertising and concentrate on what we can influence and control.   

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Careers Pages With Every Advert

Flat Fee Recruiter has designed a bespoke career landing page to accompany ALL job adverts. This means the candidate has a seamless journey with your brand

Recruitment Advertisement

Careers Pages – Getting Started

You have your shiny new careers page for your vacancies, but what exactly is a careers page and what can you do with it?

Recruitment Advertisement

Stress Awareness 2018 – What can the employer do?

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

5 Farewell Flat Fee Recruitment Tips

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

#BlueMonday – How to Hire More Candidates

Hints and tips

GDPR & Recruitment – Do you need to change?

Recruitment Legislation

Keep Calm and Get Ready for GDPR in Recruitment

Recruitment Legislation

Using LinkedIn to Find a Job

Job Seeker Blog

Why do Employers Want a Cover Letter?

Job Seeker Blog

Ace The Interview 5 Steps to Interview Success

Job Seeker Blog

Changing Career Paths – Top 5 Tips

Job Seeker Blog

How to Find Your Dream Job Online

Job Seeker Blog

10 Tips to Using Job Boards to Finding Your Job – Quickly

Job Seeker Blog

Writing The CV For The Perfect Job

Job Seeker Blog

5 Cover Letter Mistakes to Avoid

Job Seeker Blog

How to Proofread Your CV

Job Seeker Blog

5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your CV

Job Seeker Blog

Things to Avoid When Searching for Jobs

Job Seeker Blog

How to Write a CV

Job Seeker Blog

How to Write a Cover Letter?

Job Seeker Blog

GDPR – Recruitment Essentials Webinar

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

How do Job Boards Work?

Job Seeker Blog

How Will The GDPR Affect Employers Who Are Recruiting

Recruitment Legislation

10 Tips to Recruit the Best Person for the Job

Hints and tips

Five Times more Job Applications with the Job Boards

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Debunking six myths of the application process

Recruitment Process

How to Recruit Staff and Fill your Job Vacancy

Hints and tips

How do Applicant Tracking Systems Make Screening CVs Easier?

Recruitment Technology

How to communicate with jobseekers that don’t know they have applied to your job

Recruitment Process

Recording and Monitoring Sickness Absence in the Workplace

Recruitment Legislation

SEO: How to Get Your Advert Higher in Job Board Search Results

Recruitment Advertisement

7 Reasons to Recruit Staff in the Summer

Hints and tips

Is your PSL holding your recruitment process back?

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

INFOGRAPHIC: Benefits of Applicant Tracking Systems for SMEs

Recruitment Technology

How to Widen your Reach for Job Seekers on Online Job Websites

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

The Benefits of Branded Application

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Top Twitter Tools to Help you Recruit

Social & Mobile Recruiting

Introducing The Value of SEO in Your Recruitment

Recruitment Advertisement

Recruitment Advertising with Flat Fee Recruiter

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Workplace Appraisals: What you need to know as an Employer

Hints and tips

4 Things to Consider before Jumping into Social Recruiting

Social & Mobile Recruiting

Job Boards – Back to Basics

Recruitment Advertisement

5 Things to Consider when Selecting a Flat Fee Recruitment Provider

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Applicant Communication: Arranging Interviews

Recruitment Process

The Problem with Over Specifying

Recruitment Advertisement

Tips to get the most out of your recruitment process

Recruitment Process

Why it’s Essential to Proofread your Job Adverts

Recruitment Advertisement

Welcome to the FFR Blog

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Are You Getting What You Paid For?

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Sales Calls – An Inconvenience or an Opportunity to save Money?

Hints and tips

The Dilemma for Hiring Strategies

Recruitment Advertisement

How Does Your Advert Get The Love it Deserves?

Recruitment Advertisement

How to Cut Your Recruitment Costs

Hints and tips

Creative Recruitment Campaigns

Social & Mobile Recruiting

Flat Fee Recruiter for High Volume or Bulk Recruitment

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Cool Tools & Apps to Help You Social Recruit

Social & Mobile Recruiting

Where is the Best Place to Advertise your Jobs?

Recruitment Advertisement

10 Interview Questions for Interviewers

Recruitment Process

The Importance of Job Titles for Recruitment Adverts

Recruitment Advertisement

10 Tips to Use Twitter to Recruit

Social & Mobile Recruiting

5 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Recruit

Social & Mobile Recruiting

The Why & How of Mobile Recruitment

Social & Mobile Recruiting

Where is the Best Place to find Quality Hires?

Recruitment Advertisement

Why Are More Businesses Changing The Way They Recruit?

Hints and tips

What Motivates your Employees?

Hints and tips

6 Great Recruitment Books

Hints and tips

Flat Fee Recruiter Offers Branded Advertising

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Use your Brand to Land Top Talent

Recruitment Advertisement

It’s Not Always Black and White

Recruitment Advertisement

Bad Advertisement: Are you putting applicants off?

Recruitment Advertisement

Recruitment Resolutions

Hints and tips

3 Tips to get the Most out of your Flat Fee Recruitment Package

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Reduce The Time to Hire

Recruitment Process

5 Tips to Use Facebook to Recruit

Social & Mobile Recruiting

5 Reasons Your Job Adverts Aren’t Pulling in Top Talent

Recruitment Advertisement

Job Board Advertising: Nailed!

Recruitment Advertisement

Optimising Job Board Adverts : Salary

Recruitment Advertisement

Optimising Job Board Adverts: Location

Recruitment Advertisement

Affiliates & Aggregators Explained

Recruitment Advertisement

Recruitment Case Study: Spotlight On Ennis-Flint

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

How to Love your Applicants

Recruitment Process

Your FAQ’s on Flat Fee Recruiter

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Things you didn’t know about Flat Fee Recruiter

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Get lucky with Flat Fee Recruiter

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Should you be using a Flat Fee Recruitment Service?

Flat Fee Recruiter Says

Selecting a Job Board

Recruitment Advertisement

Job Adverts vs. Job Descriptions

Recruitment Advertisement

Screening CVs: Using Criteria to Improve your Time to Hire

Recruitment Process

How to Proofread / Write For Online Job Boards

Recruitment Advertisement

Selecting Your Perfect Candidate

Hints and tips

Tips: Interviewing And Selecting Candidates

Recruitment Process

Getting Started With Interview Questions

Recruitment Process

Top 5 Ways to Use Social Media For Recruitment

Social & Mobile Recruiting

Applicant Communication: Telephone Pre-Screen

Recruitment Process

Applicant Communication: When and What to Say

Recruitment Process

Effective CV Screening – Top Tips

Recruitment Process

Graduate Recruitment: Attracting Graduates to Your Job Vacancies

Hints and tips

All You Need to Know About Writing Job Adverts

Recruitment Advertisement

Hiring Staff: What You Need to Know

Recruitment Legislation

11 Things You Didn’t Know About Flat Fee Recruiter’s ATS

Recruitment Technology

How Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) Can Help The SME

Recruitment Technology

5 Tools to Improve Your Recruitment Process

Recruitment Process

The Importance of Having a Call to Action When Online Recruitment Advertising

Hints and tips

The Importance of Reviewing Your Recruitment Adverts

Recruitment Advertisement

All You Need to Know About Job Board Advertising

Recruitment Advertisement

How to Lose an Applicant in 10 days

Recruitment Process

Flexible Working – What You Need to Know

Recruitment Legislation

Back to Work: Engaging Your Staff After The Holidays

Hints and tips

Is Your Recruitment Process Letting You Down?

Recruitment Process

Tools to Improve Your Recruitment Communication

Recruitment Process

Fit for Work: Managing Sickness Absence

Recruitment Legislation

10 Reasons Applicant Tracking Systems Are Great

Recruitment Technology

Is Your Application Process Killing Your Candidates?

Recruitment Process

10 Ways to Enhance Your Employee Engagement

Recruitment Process

10 Signs That You Are Losing Your Applicant

Recruitment Process

Do You Communicate With Your Candidates?