Examples of Recruitment and Induction in Practice

Cadbury Schweppes was the first UK employer to use blogs as a means of connecting with potential applicants through its graduate recruitment website. This article shows how this innovative idea gives applicants an insight into the organisation and raises the profile of Cadbury’s as an employer of choice.

A description of how two major companies, the BBC and Procter & Gamble, are using their corporate websites for effective recruitment purposes.

Accenture provides an example of an organisation which has embraced the use of new internet tools in the search for graduate talent. This article examines how Accenture is using the latest internet technology to achieve its competitive advantage.

Sourcing suitable, high-quality candidates provides the foundation for effective selection. In the ‘war for talent’, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AstraZeneca have been looking to more creative methods for sourcing candidates.

This article takes a brief look at Europe's fifth largest bank ABN Amro and their approach to graduate recruitment.

A brief article giving an account of how the Department of Human Services overhauled its recruitment and selection process to make sure it hired the right people for the right jobs and to minimise the time taken to do so.

A look at how the CRE has developed a non-discriminatory recruitment and selection process.

A description of the recruitment world leader, Korn Ferry’s, approach to online recruitment.

Most employers deliberately exclude the long-term unemployed from the recruitment process. But NHS Greater Glasgow decided to tap into this source of talent when it set up a scheme to recruit jobless people into basic NHS roles.

A look at how recruitment company Ferguson McKenzie has helped implement PBS, an innovative recruitment process, in a variety of UK organisations, with some impressive results.

This article profiles innovative approaches to induction programmes from a number of organisations.

With over 350,000 employees spread across many remote locations around the world, computer technology giant IBM needed an innovative way of inducting its new recruits and creating networking communities. This article investigates how IBM has used cutting-edge video gaming and virtual world technologies to create IBM@Play, a sophisticated new induction tool.