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Amberjack’s Immense Data Sets: Analysing and Utilising Data Correctly

Martin Kavanagh — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 12:48:21 GMT

In the best film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the 1971 version - this is not open for discussion!), when Willy Wonka is showing his guests into the first room in the chocolate factory he sings hypnotically:

“If you want to view paradise, take a look around and view it”.

Growing up I always wondered how Charlie Bucket felt in that scene. I now know it was probably similar to how I felt when our Head of Technology showed me the assessment data available in our volume assessment platform as part of my induction to Amberjack.

The Diversity of Diversity: Improving Your Recruitment

Rob Clowes & Jasmine Barrett — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 09:45:22 GMT

So, you finally hit that 50% male and female hire ratio. You did it, well done! Diversity? Completed it.

Or maybe not...

You increased your BAME candidates? Nice. Pipeline looking good? Even better. Diversity? Completed it again.

Or not so much...

The Real Experience of an Early Careers Job Search

jasmine.barrett@weareamberjack.com (Jasmine Barrett) — Wed, 18 May 2022 07:45:00 GMT

The experience of entering the professional world as someone in the first stages of their career can be daunting. As an organisation looking to attract new talent and continually develop, insight into the experiences of these young professionals can be invaluable.

Each year at Amberjack, we recruit placement students and graduates into our business. Here’s what a couple of our newest recruits had to say about their job hunting experience.

Reasons Why You Should Outsource Your Early Talent Recruitment

Cassie Sissons & Jasmine Barrett — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:21:49 GMT

Early Careers recruitment is an important process. Welcoming the next generation of talent into the workforce and assessing who has the potential to thrive in different sectors is no small task. Especially when your organisation is looking to grow and evolve with every new hire.

This is why outsourcing your recruitment process can have huge benefits. Recruiting graduates, apprentices, and placement students, involves a number of steps; and partnering with a specialist provider (like Amberjack) to share their expertise and shoulder some of the responsibility can be advantageous, especially for multiple hires, or for small recruiting teams under time pressure.

Reflecting on My First Year in the Early Talent Marketplace

Jonathan Hall — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:24:30 GMT

Having worked in recruitment, assessment, and more recently the field of psychometrics for many years, joining Amberjack, with a laser focus in Early Careers, was a new challenge! It has proved a fascinating and innovative space, that many experienced hire recruiters could learn a great deal from, and many are starting that learning journey, including me!

Benefits of the Pandemic – Is Your Contact Centre Using Potential-based Hiring?

Carlin Summers & Jasmine Barrett — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 09:23:33 GMT

The downfalls of the Coronavirus pandemic have been undeniable. Yet, for some, advantages and opportunities have presented themselves, like little lights at the end of a depressing and dark tunnel.

For Contact Centres, the sudden and lasting upheaval caused by Covid certainly shook things up, but the result is not entirely negative. While uprooting an entire workforce from office-based to work-from-home settings was an undertaking, it has allowed organisations to rid themselves of costly premises. For example, Capita saved £10m in the first UK lockdown alone by closing offices and has subsequently closed 49 sites worldwide, while Santander scrapped their plans for a new £75m call centre for 2,500 workers.

The Inescapable Challenges of Women in Work

Amanda Mobbs — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 10:52:58 GMT

It was International Women’s Day last week, and I was asked to answer a few questions. Yet, with the #breakthebias focus this year, I thought I’d step outside my comfort zone and perhaps throw some of the usual questions up in the air…

Recruiting Women: The Importance, The Struggles, and The Solutions

jasmine.barrett@weareamberjack.com (Jasmine Barrett) — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:17:46 GMT

Here at Amberjack, we want to help build a better working world and provide candidates for the workforces of the future – but this doesn’t come without being committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

This is why we’re passionate about helping organisations recruit early talent with DE&I in mind, and why for International Women’s Day 2022, we’re diving headfirst into the process of hiring women and increasing the representation of women within your workforce.

Early Talent Recruitment Trends 2022 - Is Uncertainty Here To Stay?

jasmine.barrett@weareamberjack.com (Jasmine Barrett) — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:52:00 GMT

Amberjack works with organisations globally to hire Early Talent using our unique model for potential. Our position allows us to regularly reflect on the market and offer our clients valuable insights on recruitment trends. This is exactly what we did on February 10th, 2022.

By gathering and anonymising data from 25 organisations and over 200,000 applications, we were able to provide clients with mid-season recruitment insights at a time of continued uncertainty and offer our expertise to find solutions.

We also benchmarked against broader industry data from the ISE, and collated market insights using polls with leading Future Talent organisations, enabling us to demonstrate the consistency of our conclusions and establish how Future Talent employers are being affected.

Identifying Candidates with the Potential to Succeed

Rob Clowes & Jasmine Barrett — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:24:26 GMT

The disadvantages of CV filtering and the alternatives for a more effective recruitment process.

So, you’re looking for new talent with the potential to succeed in your organisation? A candidate with the enthusiasm to make changes and drive development? Someone with a willingness to learn and master new skills?