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RPO Recruitment Insights

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Calculating Return on Investment (ROI) in Recruitment
Recruitment ROI measures the effectiveness of your organisation’s hiring efforts by evaluating the extent to which costs invested in recruitment drive tangible benefits to the business.
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What is RPO Recruitment?
In today's fast-paced and competitive business environment, acquiring top talent has become more challenging than ever. As organisations strive to stay ahead, many are turning to RPO Recruitment as a strategic solution. We’ve put together a comprehensive guide to RPO, its benefits, and how it can revolutionise your talent acquisition process.
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The Rise of Candidate Ghosting
Candidate ghosting – when a candidate disengages from the hiring process after accepting an offer – is a growing challenge that significantly impacts businesses.
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What’s the Difference Between RPO and Recruitment Agencies?
When it comes to recruitment, there are hundreds of options to choose from so which solution is right for you?
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AI in Recruitment
AI can support recruitment in various ways by automating and streamlining different aspects of the process. Here are some ways AI can be used to support recruitment.
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Why Talent Effectiveness is Important in Tough Economic Times
The UK is currently struggling to recruit the right talent for the right roles. Coming out of the period of uncertainty and a revolution in the way of working that we’ve felt since the pandemic, 76% of firms questioned by the British Chambers of Commerce reported difficulties in recruiting.  
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How RPO Helps Businesses Adapt to Hiring Disruptions
While once associated with the technology sector, agility is now a term that can be applied to organisations in any industry who are able to embrace change and adapt rapidly to gain a competitive edge. 
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Embedded Talent: The Flexibility of RPO
RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) is growing in popularity thanks to its unique flexibility. Here, we look at what it is, what it can offer organisations, and how it is changing the way the recruitment process is handled.
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How RPO can ease the pain of upturn
The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted business and labour markets at an unprecedented level. From January to March 2021, when most of the restrictions were still in place, the UK unemployment rate was 4.8%, more than at the start of the pandemic, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). 
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Who Should Own Contingent Workforce Management – HR or Procurement?
With the latest estimates from Statista showing that there were an estimate 1.69 million temporary workers in the UK in November 2022, it’s easy to see that the ownership of managing a contingent workforce needs to be fully thought through and communicated across any organisation.
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Why a Managed Service Provider Solution Could Work for your Firm
As your firm grows and matures, the demands and needs of the business change. The same goes for your workforce. Over time, different ways of working and accessing resources emerge, with both permanent employees and contingent workers needed to meet demand. Without careful management, the administration and supervision of the processes around workforce management can become overwhelming. One solution is to use a managed service provider.
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What are the Different Types of MSPs?
As we face growing talent shortages, greater economic uncertainty, dynamic technology advancement and a desire for flexible work options we need to create choice and solutions for the complexity of today's talent needs whether that be for 50 or 5000 hires per annum.
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The Benefits of MSP for Contractor Management
Could MSP be the flexible solution you’ve been searching for?
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How Project RPO Recruitment Can Keep You Agile
Agility has, without a doubt, become the key phrase of workforce management today. Thanks to Covid, flexibility around working practices has become the norm, but this need for dexterity has translated across more than just the way our workforces operate. It’s also evolved business resource solutions.
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Benefits Of Project RPO
Unlike standard recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), Project RPO is started and completed within a defined timeline. It allows companies to meet their resourcing needs in any number of situations where greater capacity is required. For example, when exploring different markets, acquiring another business or launching a new product or service. In more seasonal industries, such as retail and agriculture, Project RPO may be of particular interest as it allows companies to meet the rising and falling demand they experience throughout the year, every year.
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Re-engineering your Resourcing Processes
Are you prepared for the future of recruitment? It can be an ongoing challenge meeting the everyday needs of your business, let alone the future ones. But failing to re-engineer your resourcing processes for the future could result in costly mistakes, wasted time and, ultimately, losing your talent to your competitors. But how do you prepare for a future of the unknown?
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Empowering Recruitment: Exploring the Benefits of On-Demand RPO Services
In our previous blog post, we discussed common conceptions around Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), and one of these was that "RPO is inflexible", however, this post dives deeper into On-Demand RPO and it's benefits, showing just how flexible RPO can really be.
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Five Myths About RPO Recruitment
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) is becoming an increasingly popular way for organisations to handle their talent acquisition. However, some common misconceptions persist about how RPO works and the benefits it can provide. In this post, we bust five myths about RPO.
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Outsourcing: The Answer to Spiking Agency Costs
The latest 2022 CIPD Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey, produced in partnership with Omni, revealed that 77% of employers who attempted to recruit had difficulties attracting suitable candidates, with 70% believing competition for well-qualified talent has increased.  
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RPO Terminology Explained
Recruitment can be a very jargon-heavy area of business, with lots of acronyms for you to wrap your head around. At Omni, we like to be as accessible as possible, which is why we’ve put together an explanation of RPO terminology. If you think we’ve missed anything off the list, let us know and we’ll add it on!
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Why Recruitment Outsourcing is the Ace Up a Startup’s Sleeve…
Funding and support for research, development and innovation has been crucial for startups over the past decade. Grants of up to £32 million have been awarded to companies across industries like aerospace, energy and pharmaceuticals.
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Five reasons organisations outsource their recruitment function
While recruiting the right people is crucial to achieving long-term business success, it is often time-consuming, challenging, and expensive, especially in industries facing skills shortages or dealing with high volumes of applicants in today's complex employment climate.
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The Cost of Poor Recruitment
In a recent research project conducted by Worksome, the recruitment-tech firm found that approximately a third of employees are failing their six-month probation period, costing companies an average of £24k[1]. These costs are forcing organisations to reevaluate their recruitment methods, especially when considering that 32% of business owners attribute poor hires to pushy recruiters paired with an alarming 94% of employers having no faith in recruiters’ access to the best talent[2]. A key instigator of this problem is that employers are underestimating the financial impact of getting recruitment wrong, and not learning how to improve
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Striking the balance: how organisations can benefit from an outsourced partner
The UK recruitment sector is facing an unprecedented period of challenge and change, with a record number of vacancies that now stands at 1,266,000
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The 5 Factors to Successful Outsourcing Partnerships
An essential component in achieving business growth and development is establishing meaningful outsourcing partnerships. While making connections is straightforward, maintaining mutually beneficial relationships presents a greater challenge.
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What’s The Difference Between RPO And MSP?
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Recruitment and Managed Service Providers (MSP) both aim to improve the hiring efficiency of your organisation by relieving the complications of managing the organisation's resourcing needs. But what do these two terms mean and what is the difference between RPO and MSP?  
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Talent Strategy Insights

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Omni at CIPD’s Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE)
The CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE) is a pivotal event for HR and talent professionals.
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The Critical Role of EDI Training in Diverse Hiring
The findings in the latest CIPD Resourcing and talent planning report 2024, supported by Omni, have revealed that employers are still struggling to find the right talent for their organisations
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Omni RMS’s Award-Winning Resourcing Effectiveness Assessment
We’re proud to have won the UK & Europe TIARA Talent Solutions Innovation of the Year Award for our Resourcing Effectiveness Assessment (REA).
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Mastering the Art of Talent Acquisition
The findings in the latest CIPD Resourcing and talent planning report 2024, supported by Omni, have revealed that employers are still struggling to find the right talent for their organisations
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How Assessment Can Improve Your Selection Process
A successful hire that is well-matched to the needs and dynamics of an organisation will help to increase productivity and profitability. In contrast, the cost of a bad hire is estimated to be three times higher than the salary paid, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC).
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Why You Need an Effective Outplacement Programme in your Business
Making redundancies or displacing people within your business can be daunting and feel like a very negative time. Supporting your employees with an effective outplacement programme can ensure that you give them the best chance to secure another role that is right for them while keeping your business safe. 
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Talent Assessment: Are Cognitive Tests the Ultimate Selection Tool? 
Recruitment has never been more challenging; we think most people would agree with that statement. Once we finally have our shortlist, how do we ensure the selection process we are utilising is going to be predictive of performance? Organisations often rely on various predictors to assess a candidate's potential for job performance; but are these the right predictors?
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The Value of Bespoke Assessment Exercises and Tools in Recruitment
Recruiting the right talent is crucial for any organisation's success. While CVs and interviews provide useful information, bespoke assessment exercises and tools allow those involved in recruitment to evaluate candidates' skills and potential fit more accurately.  
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The 8 Questions you Should Ask When Selecting A New Assessment Tool to Support your Recruitment
In a field where there are limitless options of assessment tools, many with very bold (and often baffling) claims from vendors, it can be difficult to know where to start when evaluating new assessment tools or technologies.  
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Solving the Competition for Talent – Think Differently and Don’t be ‘Ad Hoc’
Could taking a more inclusive approach to assessment and selection be the answer to recruiting in talent short markets?
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Best Practice Talent Attraction for a Modern World
The war for talent is well and truly back. There are more vacancies than ever before and almost every employer is having challenges hiring the people they need. The question seems to be growing in importance; how do you go about attracting talent in a new world of work?
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Why it’s Time to Take a More Inclusive Approach to Assessment and Selection
In October, ONS reported that the number of job vacancies from July to September 2021 had exceeded 1.1million an all-time high and the second consecutive month the three-month average has risen over one million.
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Top Tips for Implementing Skills-Based Hiring
In recent years, there has been a significant shift in the skills required by our workforces and the attributes that employers value the most in their staff. With the rise of remote and hybrid working, skills such as self-management, timekeeping, and virtual communication abilities have become increasingly important. Employers have also realised the importance of thinking ‘outside the box’ when it comes to skills identification. The Great Resignation of 2022, which reshaped many workforces, has also led to a need for evolving skills requirements.   
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Do your leaders have what it takes to lead in the modern world of work?
Leaders can appear at all levels of an organisation. But for an organisation to succeed in the modern world these individuals need to be great, not just good. The challenge comes in defining how you judge what a great leader is? And then how do you support your leaders to be and do better?  
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How Training Your Hiring Managers Will Help Your Recruitment Strategy
According to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), the cost of a poor hire at mid-manager level with a salary of £42,000 can cost a business more than £132,000 – a culmination of wasted training, low productivity, decreasing morale and increasing employee turnover.
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Insights for Recruiting Success: Enhancing the Candidate Experience
A comprehensive study from Omni offers an in-depth look at the modern candidate journey and how employers can improve their recruiting strategies. Drawing on survey responses from over 900 job seekers across the UK, the research highlights candidate priorities, pain points, and motivations. For talent acquisition teams, the findings provide a roadmap to evaluating and optimising your candidate experience. Here are the top five takeaways:
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New Year, New Job? Retention Strategies for January
Over the past 20 years, data has consistently shown that January is one of the most common months, if not the most common month, for employees to start searching for a new job, or even leave their job. There are a variety of reasons why this trend may increase in January, and we explore these in this blog post, as well as looking at some solutions to support your organisation to maximise retention and motivation.
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Recruiting for Resilience 
The impacts of Covid, lockdown and Brexit mean most organisations are having to cope with more change, increased uncertainty and bigger challenges than ever before.  This has resulted in a higher pressure, more stressful work environment for many people. 
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Five Trends in Recruitment in 2024
The recruitment landscape is continuously evolving and UK employers are constantly having to adapt to and embrace new trends that reflect the shifting priorities of both employees and candidates. In 2024, the focus has been on creating more inclusive, efficient, and flexible hiring processes that meet the demands of a diverse and dynamic workforce. From skills-based hiring to the integration of AI, here are five key trends shaping recruitment strategies this year, according to us at Omni.
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How Can Managers Improve Employee Retention?
2021 saw a large number of employees leave their roles voluntarily in a labour market shift dubbed ‘the great resignation’. November ONS figures revealed that job-to-job moves reached a record high of 979,000 between July and September, with statisticians confirming the increase was down to resignations rather than dismissals. 
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How Data Can Transform Your Talent Strategy
While it is universally acknowledged that data can help organisations make more informed talent decisions, not enough companies are taking advantage of it.
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How Effective is Your Recruitment Strategy?
With attracting critical skills being one of the biggest challenges organisations face today, an effective talent acquisition strategy centred around long-term goals is crucial. Leveraging recruitment metrics that enable improvements, support fair and objective decision-making, delivers positive candidate experiences and optimises overall recruitment effectiveness is key. 
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How to Attract and Hire Diverse Candidates in 2021
Events of the last 12 months mean many businesses are refocusing efforts in areas that were once overlooked. For most, diversity is now a board level objective yet still an area where significant improvements are required to create and sustain more inclusive workplace in 2021.
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Key Metrics For Recruitment Effectiveness
The last two years have seen irrevocable changes in the talent market. Widening skills gaps, shifting candidate expectations, the ‘great resignation’ and record job openings continue to impact talent acquisition, with organisations investing heavily to secure the talent they need.  
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What Are You Doing to Build an Objective Selection Practice?
Despite research confirming that companies with a diverse workforce are more productive and perform better financially, Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) strategies have long been disregarded as a priority for many businesses. Now, with the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement coming hot on the heels of #MeToo, D&I has finally taken centre stage in organisations across the globe.
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Why Talent Effectiveness is Important in Tough Economic Times
The UK is currently struggling to recruit the right talent for the right roles. Coming out of the period of uncertainty and a revolution in the way of working that we’ve felt since the pandemic, 76% of firms questioned by the British Chambers of Commerce reported difficulties in recruiting.  
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Candidate Experience Mistakes All Employers Need to Avoid
As the economy is waking up at pace, we are seeing many sectors are finding themselves challenged by navigating a candidate-driven market. Rather than expecting employees to fit the criteria of a job requirement, employers are increasingly attempting to attract candidates and pull out all the stops to get the workforce they need to meet demand.  
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Future-Proof Your Workforce: How Strategic Workforce Planning Sets Your Organisation Up for Long-Term Success
We often hear that resourcing functions are critical to organisations, in getting the right talent, into the right place, at the right time and at the right cost. We hear less often about the part that Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) plays in making this happen, and how this sets organisations up for success in achieving the above. Arguably SWP is of equal importance to the Strategic Business Planning process. You can have the best business strategy in the world, but if the talent isn’t accessible or doesn’t exist at the right time to execute it, then things start to fall over.   
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What Does Good Workforce Planning Look Like?
In a challenging national and global climate, planning ahead and ensuring your organisation is resilient and strong enough to overcome whatever issues it may face has become even more important than ever before. That is particularly true when it comes to your greatest asset; your workforce. And, as the saying goes, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail.’ The Resourcing and Talent Planning Report 2022, that we delivered in partnership with the CIPD, has found a number of interesting results and highlighted varying approaches to workforce planning, but how are firms navigating the challenging waters in which we’re currently operating?
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Broadening Your Talent Pooling in a Tight Labour Market
Organisations are continuing to experience one of the tightest talent markets in history with skills shortages standing in the way of attracting and retaining the right people. Now, shifting economic challenges are really affecting organisations when dealing with increasingly stubborn talent gaps as people seek a working world with a new set of priorities and expectations.  
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Creating a strong employer brand: Lessons from a CIPD Chair 
I recently had the pleasure of chairing the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development’s (CIPD) Employer Brand and Recruitment Conference. Aside from being privy to a wealth of hugely interesting discussions around how to leverage your brand to stand out from the crowd, the event sparked innovative ideas and thoughts on employer value propositions (EVPs) and what really works; and if it is working, how do you evidence this?
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Flexibility in the Workplace: Where Are We Now and What Does the Future Hold?
Flexibility in the workforce arguably became one of the ‘key phrases of the pandemic”. As employers and employees faced the first round of lockdowns and working from home became the norm, it soon became apparent that remote working can really benefit organisations and employees alike. 
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Pay is Not Enough in Today’s Talent Landscape: Here’s Why
The skills shortages across the UK are well-documented. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has spent much of 2022 reporting record-breaking vacancy increases while unemployment numbers dropped, limiting the supply of talent. Business leaders have been widely vocal on the challenges they face finding resources, with many inflating salaries in order to attract employees. But pay is not enough for truly strategic talent attraction and retention. 
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The Principles of Brand Building For Talent Acquisition
Employer branding is an essential component of any talent acquisition strategy. Whether conscious of it or not, all organisations have an employer brand. However, those who put effort into developing and communiating theirs will more likely stand out and successfully engage, recruit, and retain the right people. 
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The True Cost of Recruitment
Recruiting new staff is an inevitable part of running a business. With the average staff turnover rate at around 15%depending on the industry, the cost of recruitment needs to be considered when planning budgets – particularly at a time when people are moving jobs to access better pay.
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The True Costs of a Bad Hire
How much is a bad hire really costing you?  We’ve all heard the shocking statistics that a bad hire costs hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of pounds to your business. But do you know the true costs?
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Why TikTok is Tailor-Made for (Gen Z) Talent Attraction
Given some of the acute labour and skill shortages across several key UK sectors such as logistics, manufacturing and retail, organisations are understandably looking at new ways to entice jobseekers and potential candidates, in particular young Gen Z talent. Social media platforms have for some time been fertile ground for talent acquisition but the shift towards video rich content has been a gamechanger. In this blog, we explore the incredible influence that TikTok is having in social media recruiting while looking at some of the ways you can use the platform optimally in the recruitment of young professionals.    
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Why Businesses Make the Wrong Hires
As UK skills shortages intensify, organisations are accelerating the recruitment process to secure the talent they need. As a result, the last 18 months have seen employers increasingly make hasty hiring decisions they have come to regret.  
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Why Culture Contribution is More Important Than Culture Fit
Stephen Covey, the author of ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’, famously said, “Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution” and although that was published back in 1989, these words still resonate today. Many organisations talk about culture fit in their recruitment processes and prioritise those candidates in a selection process that they feel will fit into their existing workplace culture. However, recently the importance of cultural contribution – what individuals can actively bring to their roles – is challenging for prominence. Here, we look at what it is and how it can contribute to the success of an organisation.
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Why Social Value Is More Important Than Ever
As the world and its economy continues to rebuild after the effects of Covid-19, it has become more important than ever for both public and private sector organisations to develop impactful strategies that proactively deliver social value.  
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Why Talent Effectiveness is Important in Tough Economic Times
The UK is currently struggling to recruit the right talent for the right roles. Coming out of the period of uncertainty and a revolution in the way of working that we’ve felt since the pandemic, 76% of firms questioned by the British Chambers of Commerce reported difficulties in recruiting.  
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Talent Retention – Career Matters
With the challenges faced by the UK job market at the moment and increased competition for the best skills, it’s essential to have a talent retention strategy in place alongside any hiring plans. When it comes to retaining your best talent there are a range of initiatives businesses can put in place from increasing salaries to flexible working to wellbeing programmes. But the one that packs a punch not only by benefitting your top performers, but also adding more value to the business, is learning and development.  Here, we look at what this means for employees and employers. 
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The Challenges Facing Internal Mobility
The last two years have presented significant challenges for employees, leaders and organisations alike. First came the economic, social, cultural and political issues arising from the pandemic, followed by the ‘Great Resignation’, where job-to-job moves reached a record high in 2021.  Here, we look at what this means for employees and employers. 
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Right to Flexible Working, from Day One
The government has recently set out its plans to allow workers to ask for flexible working from the first day of their new job, as opposed to the current 26 weeks they have to wait.   Here, we look at what this means for employees and employers. 
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EDI Training Insights

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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Why it Starts and Ends with the Hiring Manager
With equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) firmly on the agenda, there’s one person in an organisation that shoulders more of the responsibility; the hiring manager. As the gatekeeper to an organisation, they’re influential over every aspect of the recruitment process and the way EDI is embedded, or not.  
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EDI – A Critical Strategy Across All of Your Workforce
As more organisations become aware of the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workplace to attract and retain talent, it’s growing increasingly apparent that it can’t simply be an initiative that’s limited to your permanent workforce.  
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D&I: Time to Take Action
It’s no secret that companies committed to diversity and inclusion (D&I) are able to secure the best talent, have the highest employee engagement and, ultimately, turn a greater profit.  
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Creating an Inclusive Experience For Your Candidates
In this current climate we need to continue to reaffirm the value of building diverse teams. According to Mckinsey, ethnically and culturally diverse teams are 36% more likely to outperform their competitors. Research from Deloitte also reveals that diversity of thought enhances innovation by 20% and increases the ability to spot risk by 30%. We all know this already, yet we are seeing EDI starting to drop down the agenda.  
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Let’s Talk About Bias: How Hiring Managers Can Make Better Decisions
Omni’s Head of Management Training, Suzanne Browne, recently took part in a Hatching Ideas webinar that explored the role of bias in talent attraction and recruitment and what can be done to address and eliminate it. Here, Suzanne covers some of the key takeaways and learnings from the discussion.
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What Do a Quarter of Employers Do to Improve Boardroom Diversity?
CIPD and Omni call for employers to be more strategic with their recruitment and selection processes.
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What Works: Attracting and Selecting Diverse Talent
Following their co-hosted workshop at LinkedIn’s London HQ, Omni and Vercida share their top takeaways on attracting diverse talent.
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Why it’s Time To Tackle Ageism Towards Older Workers
In the first week of November, around 221,000 new job adverts were posted in the UK – the fourth highest weekly figure since the start of 2020. It brought the total number of active job postings to 2.68 million, a new record high, according to the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC)’s latest Jobs Recovery Tracker.  
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3 advantages of using an executive search for critical business hires
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