HR & recruitment

We asked managers and business owners about the most unusual encounters they'd had while conducting job interviews. Here's what they told us...

If finding seasonal employees is an annual struggle, switch it up this Christmas. Here are ten tips to make seasonal recruitment less of a headache.

There's nothing wrong with traditional annual leave policies, but these changes could make recruitment and retention a whole lot easier — and even save you money.

Keeping the recruitment process free from unconscious bias is almost impossible. One of the few practical solutions to limiting its impact is blind hiring — a variation on your typical recruitment process that scrubs [...]

Whether you run your hiring process internally, or outsource parts to a recruitment agency, you have to take steps to avoid discrimination and keep the recruitment process fair.

You've advertised your role in the local paper, shouted about it on social media, and posted it on the big job sites.  As a result, the responses have come flooding in, and [...]

If you've ever gone through the process of writing and posting a job ad, sorting through the applications, and then sitting down to interview the candidates, you'll know how much time and effort goes into recruitment.

Regardless of whether you're creating a brand new role or replacing a departing member of staff, searching for your next employee can be both exciting and a little bit scary. Choosing the right [...]

The perfect candidate for your latest vacancy is out there somewhere — but right now, they don't know their ideal role exists. That's where your job advert comes in.

Updated May 2018 The issue of data protection has been everywhere recently following the furore over Cambridge Analytica and Facebook's wider approach to data protection. (Out of the loop? Here's a summary of [...]

Managing annual leave can be something of a nightmare for small businesses. From juggling staffing requirements and trying to prioritise leave requests fairly, to communicating rota changes and calculating holiday pay, there's plenty [...]

Half of employees don't take all of their annual leave, with the average employee only taking 77% of their total leave, according to a Glassdoor study. Although you might instinctively be pleased that [...]

Picture the scene: it's a Monday morning and you've just made a start on your emails when a member of staff sheepishly approaches with an envelope in hand. There's never a good time [...]

You've attended plenty of job interviews as a candidate, so you've seen plenty of interviewers in action — the good, the bad, and the ugly. But regardless of the competency of the interviewer, it's [...]

Finding the staff you need to run your business isn't easy. The first step is getting your job ads seen by potential candidates. Then, you need to convince them to apply. And after [...]

If you've been struggling to recruit the right people for your vacant roles recently, you're definitely not alone. In an eye-opening study by the Open University, 90% of the 400 UK businesses surveyed [...]

When you're a fresh-faced startup, it can be tempting to hire only fresh-faced staff. After all, especially in the early days, what you probably want most is youthful exuberance, new ideas and people [...]

Once a rarity, internships are now practically ubiquitous. Experts estimate that the number of UK internships has increased by more than 50% since 2010 - and it's not difficult to understand why. There [...]

Welcome to the inaugural Friday Face-Off! This is the first of a new series on the RotaCloud blog, where we look at contentious business issues and argue both sides. Here are the sorts [...]

When you were a job seeker, it seemed there were hundreds of capable candidates applying for all those roles you were after. Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, things are [...]

Skipping a day at school or a lecture at uni seemed inconsequential at the time, but skiving work isn’t quite as harmless! When an employee fails to turn up to work for [...]

April 6th marks the start of the new tax year. It's unlikely to be the most exciting occasion in your diary, but if you work in HR, payroll, or you manage an [...]

Hiring your first employee is a momentous occasion for your business. It's right up there with launching your website, securing your first client or customer, or making your first million! For many UK [...]