How your job description is laid out and the language used in it is a fundamental part of the candidate experience. Many, if not most, job specs are written by line managersRead More…
10Feb/20
03Feb/20
The most common candidate experience complaint
If you’ve been reading my series of blogs on how to give your candidates the best possible experience of applying for jobs with your company, you’ll know I’ve put a lot ofRead More…
30Jan/20
Swiss, but with a hint of Guinness
One of the things that we stress in these interviews with some of the people who work with us at RGU is not just the variety of work and experiences they haveRead More…
27Jan/20
Three peas – the guide to candidate experience excellence
If you were with me last time, you’ll recall I wrote about the ways in which the baby boomer generation used to apply for jobs and their expectations of how these applicationsRead More…
20Jan/20
What was it like for you? Why a great candidate experience matters
Until relatively recently, most employers wouldn’t have given a second thought to the candidate experience. As for the candidates, they didn’t have “experiences” – they applied for jobs and, if lucky, wereRead More…
14Jan/20
All the world’s a stage when it come to student recruitment
Every department in RGU is important. However, without our students – all 15,000 of them – we wouldn’t exist. Consequently, the Student Recruitment and Admissions team is extremely important! Let’s learn aRead More…
30Dec/19
RGU – Supportive, Engaging, Developmental
As our recruitment team sits in the HR Department, we are, naturally, very proud of our HR colleagues. if you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ll recall that earlier thisRead More…
04Dec/19
How Life Works at RGU
One of the questions we are increasingly asked by people applying for jobs with RGU is, “what’s your policy on individual wellbeing and mental health?” With mental health now no longer somethingRead More…
Cool and geeky at the same time!
We have done quite a lot of these interviews over the last few years. They’re intended to give anyone considering a job at RGU an impression of what it’s like to workRead More…
14Nov/19
Aberdeen – top place to live and work (and that’s not just our opinion)
As reported in Energy Voice and elsewhere, Aberdeen and Inverness “are ranked top in Scotland, and among the top 10 locations overall in league tables of the best cities to live andRead More…