As the Worker Protection Act 2024 comes into effect, HR professionals face a pivotal opportunity to reassess and enhance their recruitment strategies. While compliance with new regulations is crucial, the focus shouldn’t solely be on ticking boxes. Instead, it’s time to pivot towards a more profound and transformative approach: hiring for attitude. The Conventional Recruitment […]
Author Archive: Nikky Van Bommel
Nikky van Bommel is the Marketing Director for Big 5 Assessments and has worked in the Psychometric Testing industry for over 10 years. Nikky is responsible for all marketing and social media for the organisation.
Making Today’s Remote Recruitment Choices – A Story Of Cars and Candidates….
Of the multitude of changes that have come about during the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing candidate suitability is probably one of the lesser known….. In pre-pandemic days recruiters and employers could always meet candidates in person in order to validate their suitability. At whatever stage of the recruitment process the meetings took place it was […]
Turn a negative into a positive
For every candidate, you hire there will be some disappointed people who didn’t get the job Did you know that 60% of applicants never hear back from employers after an interview? We believe it is important to create a positive feedback experience for candidates. Here are 3 reasons why: It is a nice thing to […]
Are you looking to fill a vacancy?
We can help you with every step of the way… Whether you are new to the world of Psychometric Instruments or a seasoned user looking to add to your toolkit…we can help!
Support Your Staff with ‘What Job Fits Me’
The job market is currently facing unprecedented pressures as the UK battles against the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only does the virus have a significant impact on the health and well-being of the population, but it also leaves many business owners with difficult decisions to make. While some businesses seem lucky enough to be able to […]
10 things every hiring manager should focus on during the coronavirus pandemic
Recruitment has probably changed during these unprecedented times in one way or the other but that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to keep busy with. Here are the Top 10 things you could be doing during these unprecedented times! 1: Re-write old job descriptions Re-write those old job descriptions your manager Dave wrote all those […]
Personalised advice for managing your team working at home
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread across the globe, countless companies in all different shapes and sizes are forced to continually firefight to save their businesses. One of the biggest challenges with the way that coronavirus has forced us all indoors is related to the remote management of workers while we all see our […]
Personalised working from home report
The times we are living in are – to quote every politician and news anchor on our televisions – unprecedented. One of the biggest changes to the everyday life of the general public is the simple task of staying at home, which, if you too have been self-isolating, isn’t all that simple in practice. There’s […]
Re-allocation of staff
We truly are living in unprecedented times right now – something that I’m sure that you’ve heard plenty about over the last few weeks. The coronavirus pandemic has changed all life as we know it and nobody is quite as hard hit as small businesses and independent companies, some of whose future is unknown. Although […]
Be Unrealistic and Dream Big
Is it really Friday again? I can’t believe it is time for yet another weekly pep talk from Graham the Good (aka Graham Stuart- one of our resellers and our bearer of positive news in these difficult times)We trust you will find them useful and empowering – feel free to share them with your colleagues, […]
Looking for delivery staff?
Let us help you pick the right driver who will deliver again and again… Are you getting inundated with CVs of drivers but struggling to find the time to sift through all the paperwork?Here at big 5 Assessments our job is to make sure you benefit from data-driven recruitment decisions which will make finding the right candidate so much quicker and […]