In late 2016 Impactpool sent out a survey to former and current United Nations staff members. All candidates had started their UN career at a junior staff position (P1 or P2) during the past 25 years. With this survey, we wanted to find out what successful UN staff members have in common, and we discovered that there is a lot.
Topics: Insider, Recruitment, Gender Parity
We asked staff of the United Nations where they go to find job opportunities. Our focus was women, and our results shows that printed media belongs to the past, organization’s own job site is still attracting important talents. However, one other source grows faster than any other source and is already the largest talent provider of all.
Topics: Social sourcing, Recruitment, Gender Parity
How we break norms in the Executive Search industry
More and more organizations are working strategically to reach gender parity at all levels in their organizations. How has this affected traditional search firms, if at all? The world is changing, but for some reason some things are more diffiucult to change. Does it have to be that way? At Impactpool we do not think so. In all our services we have a commitment to contributing to gender parity in International Organizations and when it comes to Executive Search, we break norms. Our slogan is "No women, No Fee".
Topics: Innovation, Executive Search, Recruitment, Gender Parity
International Organizations place their staff away from Hardship
Topics: Insider, Talent Acquisition, Recruitment
4 common mistakes when organizations advertise a job
If you don’t have a social strategy for your job ad titles, it may be a good time to get one. It does not need to be complicated. Your first objective should be to make the job title tweetable and sharable. In this article, we discuss 4 common mistakes.
Topics: Recruitment
Are you actively sourcing talents - or are you just sitting back and waiting for talents to find you?
In too many International Organizations, talent acquisition starts with a job posting. Where does it start in your organization? Many recruitment units get job advertisements under extreme pressure that must be posted now, now, now! Remember the message of this article the next time you are pushed by a client. By just investing five minutes on the right things, you can save weeks of re-advertisement and costs of low delivery.
Topics: Social sourcing, Recruitment, Talent Acquisition
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