The How-To Guide Every Digital Leader Should Read
Part Two – Part Two – Finding the right digital talent for your team
By Carolyn Ross – Recruitment Director – Inspire Selection
News & Advice
How to Build (& Grow) a High Performing Digital Team – Part One
The How-To Guide Every Digital Leader Should Read
Part One – The critical digital skills required within most organisation to ensure they remain current
By Carolyn Ross – Recruitment Director – Inspire Selection
Recruiting Working Mums
As a team with a majority of working mums, we know the challenges of trying to balance a meaningful career, contributing our equal share to the family finances whilst juggling the everyday tasks of raising children, managing family logistics and attempting to make some lifelong memories along the way, all without any extended family close by.
Review of 2021
After a challenging but solid 2020 we are proud to say that 2021 went from strength to strength, with placement numbers up over pre-covid numbers. This is such a positive indicator for the UAE and the region – just showing how well we are recovering post the pandemic...
Job Hopping – 5 ways to make it a success for your business
Job hoppers – the term used for someone who moves jobs every one to two years, are often frowned upon by hiring managers. Read our tips on why and how your business can benefit from a job hopper.
Louise Knight joins the Sales and Marketing Team
Inspire Selection is growing, and we’re pleased to announce that Louise Knight has joined the Sales and Marketing team. Louise fits perfectly into the Inspire Selection team, with 23 years’ experience across executive search and contingency recruitment, almost 10 of...
Creating a Sustainable Workforce
With COP 26 rapidly approaching and the eyes of the world looking to global leaders coming together to create a plan to battle Climate Change, many of us are thinking about how we can be more sustainable in our own lives. Viewing the Workforce as a resource to be...
Five Common Hiring Mistakes and how to avoid them!
With media reports of a growing economy and three out of four businesses in the region looking to hire over the coming year, it’s time for businesses to perfect their hiring technique. Despite it being widely acknowledged that an organisation’s most important assets...
What’s your plan?
Do you have a workforce plan? It seems many companies do not. The CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel Development) have just released their recent Resourcing and Planning Survey which reports that less than half (46%) of organisations have a workforce planning strategy based on a robust understanding of current and future workforce needs.
Sustainability
In April 2021 Inspire Selection launch of our Sustainability desk to support companies to recruit and build their Sustainability teams. Here we investigate what Sustainability means for organisations and why it is so important. We talk to Damian Regan Assurance Leader...
Invisible Jobs: Stay-at-Home Parents and Career Break
What an uplifting conversation with Dina Butti, Najat Abdelhadi and Louise Vine! If you missed the chat on working and parenting, and how the world of recruitment has changed since the pandemic, check it out here:
The One-Click Job Search….. it doesn’t work
We recently joined The University of Manachester for their MBA careers event where we were selected to be part of an expert panel and Q&A session. The common thread was that many job seekers find a job online, hit ‘quick apply’ and expect to get the job.
Stand out in a competitive marketplace with personal PR
Personal PR is a way to keep yourself at the top of your audience’s mind. It doesn’t just apply to landing a dream job, it could also bring you incredible speaking opportunities and brand collaborations. Our friends at SOCIATE, a communications agency headquartered in Dubai address some questions that can help send your personal brand soaring off the ground.
Ten Top Tips for a Successful Video Job Interview
CONGRATULATIONS! You have an interview!
We understand that interviews can be stressful at the best of times, but the switch away from face-to-face interviews to those conducted by applications such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams throws up more challenges.
Follow our 10 Top Tips for a Successful Video Job Interview to help you get that job!
Survey Results – Will job seekers drop their salary?
We are seeing a regional trend of jobs being offered to market at lower salaries than ever before and overall packages being squeezed. We recently ran a survey asking our vast LinkedIn network whether they would take a salary cut. ***A quick note here about Inspire...