Wave News: Recruitment Trends, The 3 C's of candidate attraction and much more

By Emily Buckley

Hello and welcome to a new look Wave News! This is the place to come to check out:

• What we’ve published in the past month - the latest data-powered reports, value-driven articles, insight-packed podcast episodes, advice-led social posts and more.
• Wave news - new Wavers, charity endeavours and big announcements. Anything newsworthy will make its way here!
• Events - we’ll detail any events we’re hosting and those we’re attending, whether online or in person.

?? Fresh data

Wave Q1 2024 Recruitment Trends Report

In line with the usual new year boost to activity, the start of Q1 2024 was the busiest, with a rise in both jobs and applications, but the quarter as a whole was relatively active – a good start to the year despite the general feeling in the industry that jobs are plummeting.

Jobs rose from Q4 2023 and applications maintained the levels seen in Q4, which saw the highest numbers of applications of 2023.

As well as headline jobs and applications data, we share:

? Industries posting the most jobs and those receiving the greatest volume of applications

? Industries receiving the highest and lowest average numbers of applications per job

? Plus insights into the platforms that you are using to post your jobs to and the ones that are producing the highest numbers of applications.

Read it here >

?? Great reads

Where, When & What: The 3 pillars of candidate attraction

Successful candidate attraction involves multilayered strategies, a fully integrated tech stack, reliable data, and of course skilful human recruiting. But what it boils down to are 3 pillars.

In an article for UK Recruiter, I investigated the Where, When and What that are the cornerstones of candidate attraction: Where to find candidates; When to post your jobs; What to include in the job advert.

Read it here >

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The Deep Dive: How to use your recruitment website to attract the 3 Cs

In this month’s Deep Dive I dig into how you can attract the 3 Cs to your website to ensure it’s working as hard as it should be. Rather than just reaching out to one defined target audience, recruitment websites need to work for three - candidates, clients and consultants.

Recruitment websites therefore have a set of needs that are unique to the industry in order to appeal to these different visitor types. I outline the 3 target audience profiles and then detail what your website needs to attract and cater to each.

Read it here >

??? Wave on socials

Wave are a social bunch and you’ll see us on LinkedIn posting content aimed at helping recruiters and recruitment agency owners, as well as team news, client website launches, and other newsworthy posts. here are our top 3 from the past month:

1. For a quick hit of job ad writing advice that will instantly up your job ad creation game, head to our carousel detailing 5 elements to include in a job advert.
2. Want to know a bit more about the Wave team? Rather than a Friday takeaway, we’re all about Friday takeovers. Recently our very own socials superstar, event planner extraordinaire and general marketing wiz, Marketing Executive Chris Ash, took over the Wave LinkedIn page and it’s well worth a read -
3. Website launch days are always exciting at Wave HQ and we’re hugely proud of our most recent two. For recruitment website inspiration, check out our brand new sites for Pearson Carter & Red Sea Executive Search

?? Our news

A big welcome to our new Wavers

We’ve begun our new financial year with a bang, welcoming not one, but two new Wavers to the team.

Andrew Mbewe has joined Wave as our new Sales Development Representative. With years of business development and sales experience, we know he’ll be a huge asset to Wave as we continue to grow. Want to know a little more about Andrew? We asked him for 3 fun facts about himself:

1. I am not sure whether I will continue supporting the Mercedes F1 team next year when Lewis Hamilton moves to Ferrari
2. I’ve read the bible cover to cover
3. I’m a dad to a 7-year-old princess

Some of you will know Alisha Springer from when she worked for Wave previously and we are delighted to be welcoming her back as our new Enterprise Customer Success Manager.

Alisha will be working closely with our clients to ensure they’re getting the most from Wave and that all their candidate attraction needs are met. Here are Alisha’s 3 fun facts about herself:

1. I am a lover of all things sweet, especially anything chocolate orange
2. Fiancée to a world champion bodybuilder?
3. 'A cool mom, not a regular mom' of two cuties!

All the best,

Emily