Happy New Year, Epitome has LANDED

Happy New Year

Welcome 2015, we are so excited about this year as we have a number of new developments and changes happening in our business. We also turn FIVE later in the year so will be marking this landmark in our business with something, you'll just have to wait and see what.

Kicking off our new year resolution to become even better at what we do we are delighted to launch our all new online applicant portal. Firm believers that mobile is the future of recruiting we have spent the last six months working with developers to design an online applicant portal that will enable us to pinpoint the best applicants for our clients jobs. Our clients set the questions & the applicants complete them online and best of all this can all be done on ANY mobile device.

60% of applicants today view jobs on their mobile but on 21% of employers are actively engaging mobile optimised recruitment solutions. At Epitome we are bring mobile recruiting to the employer, so whether your are hiring 1 or 100 we can give you a state of the art recruitment experience to ensure you get the best applicants before your competitors.

To find out more about our new online portal contact a member of Team Epitome today.

Follow us here for more exciting feature launches over the next few weeks.

Happy Recruiting.
regards
Emma Gunes
Managing Director
Epitome Recruitment

The 'Epitome' of elegance @ The Irish News Awards

Lindsey and Victoria got their glad rags on to attend the annual Irish News Workplace & Employment Awards, held this year at Titanic Belfast on June 19^th. As I’m sure you’ll agree both ladies looked the ‘Epitome’ of elegance as they arrived to take their seats and wait for the evening to begin. For the first time Epitome had been short listed as a finalist in the prestigious section of Recruitment Innovator of the Year, up against some well established national companies we went in with heads held high and full of anticipation.

The glittering ball room with the famous stair case (the one from the movie with Leo and Kate) was a buzz with excitement, many of Northern Ireland’s leading organisations gathered to celebrate their successful people and a successful year of business. The Workplace awards really highlight the importance of getting it right when recruiting, hiring people who will fit with your team, fit with your corporate culture and fit with your management style. The variety of personalities in the room supports the evidence that not all companies hire the same people, they don't want clones.We all need to ensure we are hiring not just people who have the right skills but also the right personality.

At Epitome we put this high on our selection scoring when recruiting for our team and also for our clients. People need to fit in with the existing team and feel like they are valued by their employer. This was evident in the room on the 19^th June, those companies who fully supported and developed their people where the winners on the night and even those short listed as finalists had fantastic teams around them, including several of our key clients one of whom, Henderson Retail, received a Highly Commended award, well done Team Henderson's we like to think we played a role in your success.

Unfortunately Epitome came away empty handed on the night, but being our first time at the event and first time short listed we still came away with heads held high and confident that we are innovators in recruitment. With the developments we have in the pipeline for the rest of the year including online assessments and video interviews are a quietly confident that we will be back to challenge the winners in 2015.

Congratulations to all the winners and runner's up, see you next year.