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Hudson RPO has signed up to the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme

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As part of our commitment to not only recruit but also retain great people, we have signed up to the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:

  • ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible communicating and promoting vacancies
  • offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work
  • at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
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Making the most of furlough

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Being placed on furlough may be an option given to you by your employer during the current COVID-19 crisis. Furloughed employees are not allowed to work during this period, so how do you use the time off work most effectively? Or keep yourself from going stir-crazy and depressed while staying at home, especially when you are by yourself.

Apart from the usual tips around looking for things you may have put on for a long time because you either did not want to do it or just really did not have time to do, it might be good as well, to keep your mind trained and awake.

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When placed on furlough during the current crisis, consider these tips to keep your mind trained and awake
  1. You can start a new hobby from home. Knitting for example is to be said very therapeutic as it calms your thoughts and releases stress and tensions. You could also start working with other materials, such as wood. Or learning an instrument – which does not necessarily have the size of a piano or the noise of drums.
  2. Attend online courses to either develop new skills in your profession or learn new skills that may enhance your skills set. You could learn a new language, expand your knowledge in areas that might be add-on to your profession, such as HR legislation for recruiters.
  3. Become a volunteer for the NHS for example. If you do not want to risk getting in touch with people directly, entities may look for befrienders over the phone. Talk to people who are forced into self-isolation to feel less lonely. Generally, the NHS is looking for a lot of volunteers now. Volunteer to help elderly people to do their shopping for them or other things that need to be take care off, that they cannot do.
  4. Work on your goals for after the crisis. Set yourself targets nevertheless to work towards – to still have a purpose to get up. They can be job related with a promotion or new challenge in your current role in future. Or something personally like doing another degree maybe.

Finding ways to keep your mind healthy might be a key to overcome a situation of fear and uncertainty. Naturally physical exercise remains a key part of remaining healthy, so a combination of both will ensure you remain sharp, alert and ready for whatever faces you when you return to work.

Elena Longen is an EMEA Recruitment Lead based in our Centre of Excellence, Edinburgh.  Elena will be starting a furlough shortly and we look forward her having back to work as quickly as possible.

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Welcome to the family office

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What strange times we have found ourselves living in, and all in such a quick timescale.

Everyone finds the situation challenging in different ways – some find working from home difficult, isolating perhaps? Some are finding the lack of social interaction challenging and also the restriction on getting out for exercise/fresh air.

From a personal point of view, firstly I have to say I count myself extremely lucky in that a) I am currently employed with the ability to work at home; b) my husband is currently employed and most importantly; c) we are all healthy.  I am lucky enough to be able to work at home – meaning I can provide childcare for my 5 year-old while the schools are closed, while earning a living.

It is not without its challenges!

I have found working from home full-time more enjoyable than I initially expected. I find it pretty easy to structure my day and spend more time at my desk than I normally would. I don’t have a need to set an alarm for work in the morning as I have a 5 year-old who likes to get up around 6:30 am!

My personal struggle seems to be trying to entertain my son while working…the school very helpfully sent him home armed with schoolwork exercises, educational websites to visit and an example of what our daily timetable could look like. Unfortunately at his age he isn’t equipped to do a lot of his work unsupervised. He manages to do some work, watch some television and play a bit in between demands for snacks, drinks, hugs, snacks and more snacks. It’s a learning curve for both of us!  My team members have, on occasion, been entertained by his somersaults on the couch in the background of our Teams calls!

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My team members have, on occasion, been entertained by my 5 year-old son’s somersaults on the couch in the background of our Teams calls!

As a team, the Teams app has been invaluable for keeping in touch, considering I only started with the company less than two weeks ago, I already feel at home – Oh did I forget to mention the other added stress of starting a new job, in a completely new industry?

Do any of you have any useful tips on how we can juggle educating/parenting a child while working at home?

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New RPO client partnership with beverage industry leader Keurig Singapore

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We’re pleased to announce our new RPO client partnership with beverage industry leader Keurig Singapore! Our team successfully supported Keurig in Asia with the opening of a new Asia Operational Hub in Singapore. We also supported the client’s recruitment needs in China. Congratulations to everyone involved in this partnership. We look forward to supporting continued growth for Keurig Singapore!

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Debunking RPO myths and talking talent with HRD Live

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What are some of the myths that surround the RPO model?

EMEA Marketing Director Miles Stribbling addresses this question during a recent podcast with HRD Live.

Listen to the full podcast below.

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Writing partnership into the basic recruiting sourcer job description

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Writing partnership into the basic recruiting sourcer job description

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A typical recruiting sourcer job description will include many things: who you’re accountable to, what you’ll be doing on a day-to-day basis, etc. But what the recruiting sourcer job description often lacks, is a vision of the strategic mark a great sourcer can make.

Commonly, the corporate environment fails to define and support the long-term professional development of talent sourcers. The business implications of this are significant. It’s one thing not to provide career development to talent sourcers. It’s another thing altogether for organisations not to fully exploit the industry knowledge of recruiting sourcers.

The problem is, if you simply regard your talent sourcers as a business support service, and if you fail to guide them along a career progression journey, you risk missing out on the key market insights that can emerge when sourcers become strategic business partners.

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Sourcing archetypes often exist in hiring teams. Generalists are generally pragmatic in their approach. They can act as a team lead, mentor, and pipeline starter. They excel at adapting to diverse sourcing environments. Specialists are focused on market knowledge. They excel at partnering up with the business and tend to be employer branding advocates. Sourcing machines are focused on efficiency. 

They’re the best-practice setters, often the most-trusted tools person. Fixers focus on process, data, and predictions. They act as a crisis manager, able to solve problems and manage projects. Source: Ondrej Prochazka at the Hudson RPO masterclass, HRD Summit UK.

See how the recruiting sourcer delivers business value

Of course, top recruiting sourcers are experts at finding passive talent and niche candidates, often for hard-to-fill roles. They do this by combining native language skills with cutting-edge search technology.

But, if you dig further, you’ll discover that this set of skills has the potential to uncover macro-level insights powerful enough to shape and shift entire business strategies.

Let’s explain how this is possible, starting with candidate-mapping. The ability to combine native-language search techniques with leading search technology allows sourcers to map candidate pools in different markets.

By creating long-term talent pipelines, rich with both active and passive talent, sourcers can identify exceptional candidates who may otherwise remain off the radar.

The skilled use of big data technology also allows them to understand and articulate how candidates and competitors operate across markets.

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Our recruiting sourcers share market knowledge, learned on the job and at global conferences, with senior business stakeholders.

From recruiting sourcer to strategic business partner

Troves of market insights can be highly influential when it comes to designing corporate strategies around new markets and offerings, and equally, where and when to scale back.

But how can you discover them, let alone fully exploit them, if your recruiting sourcers are not progressively developed into business partners?

From the dozens of recruiting sourcers who have joined our business, we often hear that the industry tends not to enable a clear career development path for recruiting sourcers.

Ondrej Prochazka, talent sourcer and alum of Hudson RPO, recently addressed this issue during the Hudson RPO masterclass at HRD Summit UK. In this clip, he talks about how a lack of development permeates the industry:

Watch this short video to see Ondrej presenting at HRD Summit UK, during the Hudson RPO masterclass.

Imagine if we could flip the perception that career progression doesn’t exist within the talent sourcing community. The good news is — with the right training, support, and investment — we can.

Explore the potential career transformation, both in terms of technical capability and stakeholder engagement, in this talent sourcer graphic shared by Ondrej:

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Practical career development for recruiting sourcers

In its flagship Centre of Excellence (CoE), Hudson RPO is actively transforming career development expectations within the sourcing industry.

Career development stages are identified for all new starters who work within sourcing, recruitment, and administration. These are shared during the new joiner’s induction session.

Every six months, colleagues within the CoE review their development goals and measure their performance, often stepping into the next development stage.

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You can see how sourcing careers develop at the CoE by downloading our CoE Recruitment Researcher role profile.

In that example, you’ll see how the different stages of skills development are clearly identified. The role focuses on talent sourcing development; successful candidates collaborate with onsite recruiters and offsite recruitment specialists.

Experienced recruitment researchers can offer strategic value to organisations, thanks to a range of skills in:

  • Talent market analysis
  • Talent pooling
  • Sourcing
  • Screening
  • Longlisting
  • Shortlisting

From researcher to onsite recruiter and team lead, our colleagues can look forward to transparent professional development and progression. This is made clear in our recruitment-focused job descriptions, inductions, and ongoing training and support. We believe in this model, and recommend it to clients.

“Across the industry, a lack of transparent, long-term career development often permeates many stages of a talent sourcer’s career,” says George McRobbie, Service Delivery Director (EMEA) at the CoE.

“We seek to redefine that experience by providing structured career development at the CoE. As a result, our individual talent specialists are benefiting from tailored career development.”

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George McRobbie helps shape the recruiting sourcer career path at Hudson RPO

George continued: “We are proud to help train some of the industry’s most respected recruiting sourcers, including people like Ondrej, who has gone on to further his career in technical sourcing at Facebook, while also becoming a highly sought-after speaker in the sourcing industry.”

In the graphic below, check out the four stages of talent sourcing career development, as shared by Ondrej during the Hudson RPO masterclass at HRD Summit UK.

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