Recruitment is exciting. It’s your chance to find an amazing new hire who will help your business grow in (hopefully) new and unexpected ways. For a small company, it’s also a huge decision. For smaller companies, in particular, recruitment can also be complicated and expensive. We’ve talked about the 5 best job posting sites for […]

Trust is an essential part of any successful relationship. We spend a lot of time thinking about building, maintaining, and rebuilding trust in our personal relationships, but we can be less confident when it comes to our working relationships. Trust is just as important at work as any other part of our lives. It’s probably […]

We all want diverse teams, an inclusive workplace, and a constructive and welcoming corporate culture. It’s key to our organisations’ success and our workforce’s happiness. This kind of culture doesn’t happen by accident, however. This is why we at crooton focus so much on DEI efforts. These are the tools you need to create the […]

As part of our candidate management series, we wanted to look closely at best practices for candidate communications. We know that good communication throughout the hiring process is essential to the candidate experience and their impression of your employer brand. It also makes it much more likely that your chosen candidate will stay the course […]

Here on the crooton blog, we like to talk a lot about recruitment. We’re dedicated recruitment nerds! But — if you’ve ever had any dealings with an HR team — you’ve almost certainly heard the term “head hunting”, too. Both activities involve finding the right people to work for your organisation. So what’s the difference? […]

Finding the perfect candidate, offering them the job, and taking them through the onboarding process are highlights of a recruiter’s work. There’s a feeling of success, achievement, and progress. Notifying unsuccessful candidates doesn’t have the same feel-good factor. It can be uncomfortable, stressful, and unpleasant. It is, however, a key part of candidate management and […]

The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that it is possible to rapidly transform the way we work. Working traditions that seemed set in stone were turned on their heads in weeks. This has led more people to question the way we work. And to ask themselves what it would mean for full-time workers to work one […]

As we move towards the middle of 2022, companies are looking at a complicated set of economic and political conditions which may present significant challenges over the next 12 to 18 months. Inflation and the cost of living crisis, the war in Ukraine, and uncertainty over continued Brexit developments all contribute to tough choices for […]

Feeling overworked? An assistant could be just what you need. Hiring an assistant is a great way to lighten the workload – and reduce stress levels – for you and your staff. It gives more experienced team members the time to focus on higher level tasks, knowing that all of the day to day basics […]

The world of work is changing. Generation Z (those born between 1996 and 2012) is entering the workforce, and there’s a looming labour shortage. And that’s before we even start talking about the pandemic and how it has upended our working lives. Expectations are changing, too. Candidates no longer want just a job and a […]