Last week saw the Autumn budget with implications for both business and families alike. The helpful people at Bullhorn have written this brilliant article which tells you "What the Autumn Budget Means for Your Recruitment Agency". Broken down into IR35, skills, construction and infrastructure, and public sector, it tells you everything you need to know.

This made me laugh this week, "Crazy Interview Questions" by Stephen O'Donnell. Once you've read these really, truly crazy ones, have a look at the 'unusual' ones, put together by Social Talent, shared below.

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One of the biggest, and most talked about, issue in recruitment at the moment is artificial intelligence and how it will fit in to and affect recruiters and the world of recruitment.

"When it comes to your recruiting strategy, you might be inclined to stick to a tried-and-true method. Shaking things up may not be at the forefront of every recruiter’s to-do list, but a new recruitment campaign could lead to sourcing top notch candidates."

"If you’re going to ask a candidate “what their biggest strengths and weaknesses” are, then a pre-scripted answer will be given to you from your typical job board section. In many cases, you’ll hear the same answer given to you. For the majority, mostunusual questions don’t actually have a wrong or right answer. These questions give way to the candidate to demonstrate their ability to think on the spot."

Recruitment can be time consuming, expensive and stressful and a no show from a candidate is the most frustrating thing. This article looks at four reasons this can happen and how video interviewing can help.

Gathered as part of their new eBook, Lever put together a series of tactics to eradicate the tricky challenges in interviewing to help get over common interviewing roadblocks. Here, they share five of them.

• 5 things CEO(s) of small companies, must know about recruitment
• The Most Efficient Interview Process Involves Your Whole Team
• Everything Recruiters Need to Know About GDPR

The Talent Attraction Channel - Ep13 - Great Recruiter Experience = Great Candidate Experience

Monday December 4th 2017 London 4pm

Recruiter Experience for the Benefit of Candidate Experience & Brand. Talent Attraction Strategist & Social Recruiting fire-starter Steve Ward (@cloudninerec) will be chatting with Matthew Cooper, Senior Tech Recruiter at Booking.com.

GDPR; The Opportunity For Recruiters < cutting through the BS

Wednesday December 6th 2017 London 1pm

Lisa Jones will be joining Louise to talk GDPR and why you should stop worrying about the (20 million Euro) fines and instead look at the opportunities. Consider that it’s about putting the individual first; frankly we should all want full control over our personal data. In fact you could view GDPR as an opportunity to build stronger and better relationships with candidates and clients.