Candidate Experience

Early Careers Expert Series: Building an Effective Candidate Attraction Strategy

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Attracting the very best talent for your early careers schemes is more competitive than ever. Businesses must take a structured, data-driven approach to their attraction strategy to stand out in a crowded market. From understanding labour market trends to refining campaign spend and pre-application engagement, every element plays a crucial role in ensuring the right […]

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Apprentices Need Room to Grow and Expand: 2025 Apprentice Spotlight with Daniel

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As we approach the end of Apprenticeships Week for 2025, we come to our final Apprentice Spotlight, this time featuring Recruitment Coordinator Apprentice, Daniel… “My name is Daniel, I have just been to college where I studied A level maths, business, and computer science. I play football and badminton in my spare time and taught

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Unlocking Volume Hiring Success with Amberjack: Insights from the 2025 IHR Breakfast

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As Amberjack continues to be a trusted partner for volume hiring, it’s clear that valuable lessons from early career recruitment can be effectively applied to high-volume hiring challenges. On January 30th, we partnered with IHR to explore this topic, featuring insightful contributions from Octopus Energy and Network Rail. A key question emerged for every stage

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Record Applications for 2024 Explained

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85,000 candidates completed assessments through the Amberjack Volume Assessment Platform in October 2024. This number smashed all previous records. Whilst some of this increase can be explained by a record year of sales for Amberjack in 2023/24, this certainly doesn’t explain it all. Martin Kavanagh, Amberjack’s Head of Assessment, believes that we’re seeing the results

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Ensuring Fairness in Assessment and Selection

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Is your assessment and selection process job relevant? Does the candidate understand how your assessment is relevant to the job they are applying for? If not, then they probably don’t think the process is fair. Relevance is one of the biggest factors impacting perceived fairness of an assessment and selection process. After reading the CIPD’s

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How Gen Z Candidates Are Using AI to Job Hunt

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Straight from the brain of one of Amberjack’s Gen Z Advisory Board members, discover how your talent pool is using Artificial Intelligence in your vacancies and Early Talent programmes! “As a student entrenched in my job hunt right now, using AI tools helps me dramatically cut down on the amount of time I spend on

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What Gen Z Actually Think About Mental Health at Work

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Mental Health Awareness Week – what does this actually mean to a Gen Zer with their fair share of mental health challenges? I’m Jasmine, I’m 26, I work in the Marketing Team at Amberjack, and I’ll always be one of the first people in the room to talk about mental health. Why? Well, over the

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Finding Your Feet in the Legal Industry – International Women’s Day Spotlight with Ronke

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For International Women’s Day 2024, Amberjack decided to sit down with women from the latest generation to enter your workforce: Generation Z. These Gen Z women explore our latest research, ‘What Gen Z Women Want’, and share some of their own feelings and experiences too! International Women’s Day 2024 took place on Friday 8th March,

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Candidates Look at Your Gender Diversity – International Women’s Day Spotlight with Tanveen

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For International Women’s Day 2024, Amberjack decided to sit down with women from the latest generation to enter your workforce: Generation Z. These Gen Z women explore our latest research, ‘What Gen Z Women Want’, and share some of their own feelings and experiences too! For our second International Women’s Day Spotlight, we sat with

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How Can Learning and Development Support Your Keep Warm Activity?

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This time of year sees an incredible amount of change and excitement in the early careers space, from graduate and apprenticeship programme offers rolling out, to preparation for the programmes ahead. Neave Taylor, Amberjack’s Learning and Delivery Development Manager, takes you through the importance of keeping your candidates warm and engaged. The Importance of Keep

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