Cogito Blogs
Cogito blogs offer insights into the latest talent breakthroughs and expert perspectives to help you enhance your understanding.
The Five Pillars of Candidate Motivation: Unlocking Enhanced Candidate Attraction
In our latest blog, Cogito's Head of Insights - Ruari Fangman discusses just what drives candidates to take their next role In the dynamic world of recruitment, understanding what motivates candidates is the key to attracting and retaining top talent. Today,...
Our Journey To Being A Good Employer
Our Journey to being a Good Employer– and why your business should do the sameThe push / pull factors of starting a new business still remain with me. As well as the vision to improve recruitment and HR consultancy available to businesses, was the end-of-the-road of...
Good Employment Charter
Cogito become founding members of the South West Good Employment Charter. The Good Employment Summit, was held at the Bristol Hotel. This was a celebration of the first ever group of accredited Good Employment Charter Members. Which Cogito are pleased to announce we...
Why I Became A Mental Health First Aider
Why I Became A Mental Health First Aider Cogito's Learning and Development Specialist, Kirk Shortland, provides an insight into why he became a Mental Health First Aider.Having worked for the UK's largest non-Metropolitan Fire & Rescue Service for 15 years, I had...
Wellbeing Course Dates
WELLBEING TRAINING AND COURSE DATESWellbeing Courses Delivered by Kirk Shortland, our bespoke mental health and wellbeing training courses can show you how to effectively support your employees and increase engagement, motivation and productivity. In-Person Courses...
Introducing Cogito HR
Introducing Cogito HRIn this blog, Cogito’s Managing Director, Marc Drew, introduces Cogito HR, a people solutions & HR consultancy with a new approach to HR support for small and medium size enterprises. This month sees us reach a key milestone in our long-term...
Employer Brand Insights July 2023
This white paper delves into the current themes within the employer branding world. It provides HR and Talent Acquisition professionals with valuable insights and statistics to help them understand the talent pool's needs and build effective attraction strategies for...
How To Build A Reward Framework That Works For Your Business
How To Build A Reward Framework That Works For Your BusinessA clearly defined reward framework is an essential part of a company's success; not only does it give employees more motivation to work harder and smarter, but it also aligns employee incentives with overall...
Employer Brand Insights
Understanding candidates' needs is essential for employers, as employee attraction and retention becomes more challenging than ever. This white paper covers a range of employer brand insights and determines what employers should focus on to improve their proposition...
Data-Driven-Insights Are The Heroes Of An Effective TA Strategy
Why Data-Driven-Insights Are The Heroes Of An Effective Talent Acquisition Strategy With businesses prioritising investment in people, employers are continually seeking ways to improve their methods of recruiting and retaining top candidates, and data-driven-insights...
Common Mistakes Made When Developing An EVP
The first in our two-part EVP blog series discussed the Importance of Building an Effective EVP Platform: What Steps to Consider, to improve your employer brand and boost your success in finding the best talent for your business. Are you ready for the sequel?In...
Building An Effective EVP Platform: What Steps To Consider
An Employer Value Proposition (EVP) is a key aspect of a company’s attraction strategy, helping to communicate its unique benefits and culture to potential employees. This process will not only help attract the right talent but differentiates a company from its...
A Case For Sustainability And Responsibility In Talent Acquisition
Google searches for ESG have skyrocketed. The world is facing a global recession, and in such uncertain times, sustainability and social responsibility are more important than ever. That's where ESG comes in. The recent growth of ESG has prompted businesses to up the...
Labour Market Report November 2022
Labour Market White Paper November 2022 Cogito's Employer Brand State of the Labour Market white paper is designed to offer an indication of the labour market's current outlook for employed professionals, including recruitment and hiring intentions. This white paper...
My PTSD Picture
A picture paint’s a thousand words, right? I must have said and heard this phrase thousands of times. For me, one glimpse at this image of myself on a breathing apparatus course would change everything in an instant. “That can’t be me. How could I have fallen so far...
Salary Benchmarking: How to Attract and Retain Top Talent
There’s no doubt that salary and reward benchmarking is an essential component of any business strategy. In today's competitive candidate market, and with salaries on the rise, no one wants to lose their best employees to better offers and packages from their...
Why An Effective Employer Brand Strategy Is A Long-Term Relationship, Not A Fling
If it’s not your goal to promote your business as an attractive employer, why not? In today’s increasingly competitive candidate market, what your existing and potential employees think of your company as a place to work is essential. What do you think they would say...
The Importance Of Pre-Onboarding: Engaging And Exciting Your New Talent Before Their First Day
After a lengthy recruitment process, you've finally found your ideal candidate, and you're ready to get them started. Onboarding is more than simply job training or employee orientation -it's the bridge that helps new hires cross the gap between them and their new...
Towards a Neurodiverse Workplace – How Your Company Could Be Missing Out on Some of the Best Talent
Neurodiversity is a somewhat new term in the workplace. Many may have heard the phrase but not fully understood its implications in the business world. This blog aims to shed some light on the topic by giving an explanation of what neurodiversity is, the benefits of a...
Supply and Demand in a post Brexit pandemic – This Could Be ‘the most expensive Christmas yet’
Supply chain issues are not a new occurrence within food, hospitality, and retail (we all remember the KFC chicken shortages of 2018). This year, because of Brexit, new visa restrictions as well as COVID-19 and new travel restrictions, delivery and logistics issues...
