Cogito Blogs
Cogito blogs offer insights into the latest talent breakthroughs and expert perspectives to help you enhance your understanding.
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...
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...
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...
Benefits of Fixed Term Contracts
Fixed-term contracts can be beneficial to both employers and individuals due to the opportunities and flexibility they can offer. In Quarter 1 of 2020, as COVID-19 took hold of Europe, the economy and employment levels suffered significant shocks. As unemployment rose...
Top 10 Jobs With Talent Shortages In the UK
The UK labour market is experiencing one of the most challenging talent shortages in its recent history. Our last blog post discussed the skills shortage which is taking place within the transport and logistic professions. However, this skills shortage is found to be...
Where has the talent gone? A breakdown of the UK’s skills shortage in transport and logistics professions
The UK Transport and Logistics job market is experiencing one of its most uncertain phases in recent history. This year, transport and logistic vacancies reached their highest mark for a century. Rain Newton-Smith, Chief Economist at the Confederation of British...
Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace
In this blog I take you through the importance and benefits of diversity and inclusion (D&I) and then leave you with the foundations of a great strategy to move forward with. By the end you’ll have a better understanding of the key aspects of D&I and how you...
Women in STEM – How Can We Improve Gender Equality?
Women in STEM This blog will take you through some of the main reasons that women in STEM are underrepresented and the key issues women face when they do find work in STEM fields. We’ve also included some ways as a business you can improve the situation and some tips...
The Importance of Employer Branding
Employer Brand and EVP development is increasingly becoming a “must have” for any organisation looking to attract and retain great talent. The world of work is shifting on its axis. Skill shortages in areas such as Tech, Care, Financial Services and Science are now...
What’s the Point of a Recruitment Audit?
Businesses that regularly fail to review their recruitment model are likely to be repeating poor practice, wasting money and alienating candidates. If your business conducts any level of regular recruitment you should be taking the time to understand what works, what...
10 Benefits of Talent Mapping – Improve Your Talent Acquisition
What is Talent Mapping? Talent Mapping is a powerful recruitment strategy that is often used in tandem with Talent Pipeline. Forward thinking recruitment teams use Talent Mapping to ensure they never sacrifice their quality of hire just to quickly fill a role. The...
Press Release: Cogito secure 12 month extension with ASM Assembly Systems
For the third straight year, Cogito have been appointed as the exclusive recruitment partner to ASM Assembly Systems (ASM) in the UK. Since 2019, Cogito has evolved the ways in which ASM attracts the niche skilled talent critical to its business performance and...
Press Release: Cogito awarded Recruitment Transformation Programme with L&C Mortgages
Cogito are delighted to be have been appointed as the recruitment partner to L&C, an award winning mortgage broker specialising in fee-free mortgage advice with offices in Bath and Newcastle. Following the successful delivery of a wide range of recruitment...
How Much Do We Really Want To Work From Home? – Survey Report
Home Working is the future! Right? Now that many of us have experienced a greater amount of home working than ever before, we wanted to understand what people felt about it, what they liked, didn't like and what they wanted in the future. 203 individuals from a cross...
HR Pulse Report – HR Priorities & Ethnic Diversity
As organisations come to terms with the impact of Covid-19 upon their business, HR professionals are working upon a wide range of projects to support change programmes from reorganisation to post lockdown employee engagement to home working policies. In addition...
Is Home Working the Solution to your recruitment problems?
In April 2020, statistics released by the UK's Office for National Statistics showed that 49.2% of adults in employment were working from home as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a recent research study we conducted 77% of people said they wanted to work from...
