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Category: Insights
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Understanding The Benefits of Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Recruitment Processing Outsourcing, or RPO, is when a company hires an outside agency to manage all aspects of recruitment. This can include but is not limited to, marketing for new hires, screening interviews, and administering of any testing or group interview processes. RPOs may also take on other HR functions within a company such as… Read more
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Increasing Diversity and Reducing Bias in the Workplace
Diversity and inclusion are now at the forefront of most organisations’ strategies for improvement and growth. Businesses everywhere are striving to be more inclusive of prospective employees in regards to gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality and more. In order to increase diversity and reduce bias, one must look at every stage of the hiring process, from… Read more
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Insurance in the News
The reform of the Irish Insurance industry has, at last, began to take some shape. Campaigners have long been calling for the cost of motor and liability insurance renewals to be lowered. As well as the cost of insurance premiums being paid by customers being a cause for concern, so too has been the amounts… Read more
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EVP (Employee Value Proposition) Explained
For any employer interested in talent attraction and retention, an EVP (Employer Value Proposition) should be at the forefront of their business strategy and goals. Likewise, employees should be aware of EVP’s and their significance when it comes to any prospective employers. We aim to explain it in the following piece – What exactly… Read more
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How to negotiate pay – for both employers and employees
Money can be a difficult and awkward matter to discuss, both on behalf of the employer and the employee. Negotiating a salary in the first place and hence negotiating a pay rise once in a role, is something many of us try and avoid or don’t know how to handle. Likewise for an employer, when… Read more
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Ways to Communicate Confidence in Your Job Search
Are you in the middle of a job search, preparing for an interview or going for a promotion? Can you identify a common factor which applies to all three? It’s the presence of confidence. As recruiters, we meet a variety of candidates day in day out (albeit virtually at the moment!), and while the majority… Read more
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The Accountancy Talent Shortage and Impact of COVID-19
By 2025, millennials will account for 75% of the global workforce, they are the first generation to grow up in the digital age, they expect agile work practices, are highly receptive to the use of emerging technologies and favour work practices that utilise technologies to advance work processes and work-life balance. From 2008 to 2012… Read more
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How Accountancy is adapting to the Digital Revolution
Over the past couple of months, technological innovation has undergone rapid change within all industries, including that of Accountancy. In turn, this has meant that businesses have needed to reassess the ways they carry out their Business as Usual activities and their general way of working. Adapting to technological change is now a massive part… Read more
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The continued rise and success of the Irish Fintech market in 2020
2020 is, has been and is set to continue to be a challenging and disruptive time across most sectors and industries. However, within the area of Fintech, there has been a continued rise in terms of financial activity and investment going on within the sector. According to recent figures from multinational professional services network KPMG,… Read more
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How HR departments are adapting to the new ways of work
It goes without saying that professionals across all areas of business, regardless of the discipline or industry has had to adapt to new ways of working and operating as a result of the pandemic. None of these more so than those working within HR. With the digital transformation of recent years, those working within HR… Read more