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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.

Following their co-hosted workshop at LinkedIn’s London HQ, Omni and Vercida share their top takeaways on attracting diverse talent.

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. 

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.  

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?

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.