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Interview Format (Clients)
External market
What is happening in the market?
Ongoing impacts of COVID? Any impacts from Brexit?
Key trends / issues
Expectations on how it will change in next 12 months
Your business
How many people are you expecting to hire in the next 12 months?
What are your primary tools for recruitment? (Linked In, etc.)
Do you use recruiters? If so what rates do you normally charge? Do you also use headhunters?
what are your key challenges in recruiting new talent?
What roles do you find most difficult to recruit for?
What are the most important factors you hire for (skills, experience, cultural fit, attitude, etc.) and how do you test candidates for them?
To what extent do you search for talent overseas?
To what extent do you use awards and industry recognition to differentiate yourself
How important are your culture and values in choosing the right candidates? How successful are you in promoting them?
What is the biggest difficulty you face in getting candidates to say yes?
Do you ever run bespoke recruitment events yourself?
How easily do you find graduates?
Hypotheses
How proactive are you in terms of building a future-proofing approach to recruitment by developing internal and external talent pools for the future?
Have you ever tried a gamified approach to hiring?
Have you ever considered turning the model on its head and pitching to A Lister candidates?
How important is communicating the company brand and culture to attract the right hires? How are you doing this today?
How important is diversity and inclusion to you? Would you consider events that were very targeted to support particular groups?
How important is altruism to you?
Do you think that there is a place where the tech community lives in London?
SMR
Who do you think it targets in terms of:
Level – entry, junior, mid, senior, expert
Company type – start-ups, tech businesses, corporates, etc.
Role / function – admin and support, data, design, engineering, finance, marketing, ops, sales, HR, product
Have you been as a candidate or as a client?
What was your perception of the event?
Would you ever take a stand at SMR?
If so, would you do it this year? What time this year?
If not, why not?
What would you want from a recruitment fair?
What other recruitment fairs do you use? If none why not?
Do you see SMR as more of a start-up or a tech fair?
Would you prefer something smaller and more focused?
What is SMR great at? What is it rubbish at?
What else keeps you awake at night?
Would you consider joining an advisory board for the show?