Job Crystal we know a thing or two about how to hire a recruiter. We hire internal recruiters (those that work in a company and hire only for that business) and we hire 360 recruiters in our own business. You could say we hire more recruiters than any other role consistently.

the question begs ‘Can you really find someone for any job in 24 hours?’. In our world of recruitment, you can always find someone, the question is if they are available and interested. What has made finding someone in 24 hours easier is the new AI recruitment technology out there – help is not too far away.

Having recruited candidates in a range of places – internally, in a corporate, a start-up, and through an agency, as well as having been a candidate. I have learned a thing or five about where to find the best candidates. Great recruiters use all the tools at their disposal, due to having to search through 7 billion! You just need

We often question when we hire the wrong person, how did it go so wrong? Working in recruitment and hiring for my own team, hindsight often tells me where it all went wrong. Find our Top 5 reasons ‘why you didn’t hire the best’:

We are seeing an increase in job openings in South Africa, which is great for our economy but does create competition when YOU want to hire the best. Often companies have to fight against bigger monetary offers, but now days you would be surprised what ‘wins’ that quality candidate. Due to what has happened over the past 18 months many candidates are looking for non-financial benefits to help with the change at home, so if you can offer some of these non-financial benefits you may be leading the race.

Jobs and Job Titles are linked critically to an immediate view of what the job will entail. Example “Personal Assistant” we immediately think of a person who will assist a manager with answering phones, travel arrangements and administration. Another example is “Manager” immediately think of someone that leads a team of employees. Want to save hours in hiring? Then ensure your Job Title is ideal for the role.

Be it you call it a “Job Description”, “Job Detail” or Job Specification (aka Job Spec) – they all equal the same thing, a document that lists what a job is called and does.

Background checks are done in different situations, but the situations where background checks are mostly used:

Steve Jobs said, ‘hiring the best is your most important job’ and ask any founder who has been hired badly, how true this is. Just ask Red Adair with his famous words ‘If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur. ‘

We are some of the lucky working parents out there, we have a great support system and we happen to be technology savvy. Having said that we are just like every other parent out there during a lockdown in a pandemic, we have kids jumping into zoom calls, a house to sort out, a goal to get to 0 emails each day and so many lists of things to go, to get, to buy, to focus on, to read, to…. You get the point.