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Stepping Beyond Comfort: Claire Cousens' Journey to Inspirational Leadership
Shining the spotlight on a journey of personal growth and development - where inspiring others and driving transformative changes that elevate the entire business makes for a great success story.
Beyond Lip Service: Embedding E,D&I into Recruitment's DNA
More than just buzzwords or the subjects of compelling corporate statements, E,D&I represent foundational pillars that can significantly influence a company's culture, innovation, and success. So why isn't it better tracked?
NED news from HARBOUR HQ
We're delighted to announce that amongst our numbers we can now count a Non Executive Director... click through to find out who ...
Jewish Care Case Study
‘Our old ATS was the M25 of recruitment processing. With HARBOUR, it’s like Highway 54. No palaver, straight through from end to end, and you get to your destination in really quick time.’
Evolving, but staying true to what HARBOUR has always been & will always be… daring to care.
Our CEO's perspective on new categorising of what we do and how we do it
The HR Tech landscape is evolving rapidly in 2024
The emergence of HCM and advanced HR platforms is changing how organisations of all sizes address their tech needs.
HARBOUR success for Healthcare Homes
HARBOUR upgraded Healthcare Homes recruitment ATS so they could process all their recruitment activity in one place
The gift of giving this Christmas
We are continuing our long-established approach to donate rather than send cards or gifts
Fridge magnets and strides forward
HARBOUR CEO Alex Hens reflects on 2023
Tending to our Connections : Nurturing Growth in a Hybrid Work Landscape
Tending to our Connections : Nurturing Growth in a Hybrid Work Landscape : TeamBuilding; hybrid working.
How could recruitment be more efficient?
If you’re planning to streamline your recruitment processes for 2024 and need a helping hand, we’re ready to help!
A response to Peter's post : Focus Focus Focus..... Finish
A response to Peter Gold's Focus Focus Focus..... Finish blog
How we worked with New Look to provide "best in class" recruitment
HARBOUR and New Look work in partnership to introduce new HMP
AI: Additional Intelligence?
HARBOUR's Chief Commercial Officer, Sarah Axcell shares her views on the emergence of AI technology...
How to up your DEI game with recruitment tech
Want to improve your company’s DEI? No idea how recruitment tech can help? Let HARBOUR enlighten you…
Why we don’t work Friday afternoons
Do you offer your employees flexible working? We do – and we have a happier, more engaged and loyal workforce to show for it.
Is recruitment tech worth the money?
Is tech recruitment a good investment? Yes – if it’s user friendly and can be adapted for your growing business needs.
A rather chuffed client...
Award-winning law firm TLT needed to power up their recruitment tech with HARBOUR
A Real Commitment to Sharing Success
HARBOUR CEO, Alex Hens announces Employee Share Ownership Scheme
Happy birthday to us
A celebration of 15 years of HARBOUR ATS
Social recruiting for charities
Charity recruitment is in dire straits. The demand is there but recruiters are struggling to fill positions. Could recruiting via social media be the answer?
Why job hunting is all the rage for candidates
Rage-applying is a thing! Discover how recruiters can prevent churn using an Employee Value Proposition that aligns employer values with candidates.
How to recruit fast in a recession
Recruiting during the recession? Discover the ONE thing you need to do to speed up Time to Hire and grab candidates before the competition.
A personal view from the HARBOUR wall : Goodbye 2022 – you were so very valuable, but I’m glad to see the back of you
CEO perspective of business change
We’re blowing our own trumpet
Great recruitment software starts with a conversation. Find out how HARBOUR’s client partnerships lead to an Applicant Tracking System that exceeds expectations.
All aboard the candidate express!
All aboard the candidate express! Want to hold onto new hires during the onboarding process? Use automation to speed things up and give them a smooth ride.
Has psychometric testing had its day?
Has psychometric testing had its day? Spoiler alert – the answer is no. But if you want to engage candidates with a more exciting assessment experience read on…
How to do social recruiting
As more recruiters turn to social recruiting to find candidates, we look at what you can do to maximise your recruitment strategy on social media.
Want more candidates? Get accessible!
Disabled candidates are an untapped talent pool – so now’s the time for recruiters to make job boards and careers pages more accessible
A Right Royal Munch Up
How our HARBOURites celebrated the platinum jubilee
What – no dentist appointment?
Recruiters turned to video interviewing during the pandemic – but will online interviews replace face-to-face interviews in the future?
Modern recruiting tools, neurodiversity and keeping human
Modern Recruiting Tools, Neurodiversity and Keeping Human
Meet Alex Hens, CEO of HARBOUR
Meet Alex Hens, HARBOUR CEO
How to Recruit Neurodiverse Talent
From application forms to candidate assessments there’s plenty that recruiters can do to attract neurodiverse talent.
The HARBOUR hangout… with Sarah Axcell
She loves all things recruitment software, talking, brownies and Keanu Reeves – meet HARBOUR’s Chief Client Officer Sarah Axcell
Is the reference dead?
References are mandatory for some organisations. Recruitment technology can take the strain out of chasing them…
6 Ways to Successfully Recruit
From application to onboarding, discover six ways to engage candidates using recruitment software.
Introducing a new integration for video interviews
HARBOUR ATS join forces with Shortlister to bring you video interviews
HARBOUR Highlight
Innovating Retail Redeployment & Recruitment
Retail redeployment – doing it right, doing it nice!
Redeployment can be tough. But with the right recruitment software you can make it a fast, efficient and painless process for your people and your business.
It's that time of year again...
For those of you who know us (and indeed, those that are yet to meet us!), at this time of year we d...
Taking care of care sector recruitment
Covid left an already troubled healthcare sector in crisis. How can recruitment software provide emergency relief to bring care workers back again?
Direct Apply with Reed.co.uk
Direct Apply Functionality
"We all need people who will give us feedback..."
Our ‘Dare to Care’ is important to us – a vital part of our business is our Client Support and the s...
The latest addition to the office
Not a permanent or even full time addition (he has to go home for a nap in a while), but today we we...
HARBOURites in the spotlight - Dan Lynch
Video games growing up? Tick. Dungeons & Dragons team at work? Tick. Warhammer connoisseur? Tick. Pa...
Gutted to be saying 'see you round' to a HARBOUR legend
In any work environment there's a certain amount of person churn. Sometimes it's for the best for bo...
Top time for Topps Tiles!
If you’ve ever tried your hand at tiling, you’ll know how much time it takes. You have to plan, meas...
"it's sooooo unfair" - getting older
Well. Here we are. Another work anniversary. HARBOUR turned 13 on 27th May. It's been a lot of hard...
Is redeployment on your radar?
Redeployment. It’s a word that’s got quite a sinister aura about it, hasn’t it? Redeployment. It con...
Mental Health at work 2021: How can technology help?
Mental Health at work has been climbing in importance on the business agenda and amongst policymaker...
The candidate experience in 2021 - Learning the lessons of getting it all ‘Pete Tong’
As we step back towards re-opening life, I reflected back on one of the last crowd events I attended...
Changing – but not for change’s sake. Digitising The Royal Automobile Club Membership Application Facility
The fear of change or changing things is called Metathesiophobia. The origin of the word comes from...
National Apprenticeship Week 2021: Are you investing in the future?
Hands up if you’d like to be 16 again. When I look back to 1988, life was a whole lot simpler. I had...
On a mission with Off The Record
OTR are a charitable organisation who provide vital mental health support services to young people a...
A brand safety lesson for a Swedish super-brand - and its candidate experience parallels.
If you want the ultimate vehicle to keep you and your loved ones safe, I’d highly recommend the FV40...
Festive giving from all at HARBOUR
Something we've always done since we first started trading has been to donate to charitable causes r...
HARBOUR User Forum 2020
November 12th 2020, in a year of firsts, saw our first (and hopefully only ever entirely) virtual HA...
Remembrance in 2020
Lockdowns - video calls - masks - working from (often less than ideal) home situations - isolation f...
The lost art of asking why
Songwriters use it brilliantly, scientists build theories around it and children relentlessly ask it...
Going public
Over the years we've described ourselves as something like industry ninjas. We're really very good a...
Purpose beyond Profit – a client vision that’s dear to our (Midland) Heart
There are more than 8 million people across the UK living in unsuitable housing. The economic, socia...
Changing contracts and redeployment – stepping up and smoothing process in a stressful enough world.
March 2020 will go down in history as one of those times when everything changed. We all changed our...
War on waste - delivering digitisation of safety critical induction
Suez have a vision to live in a society where there is no more waste. They believe that waste is a r...
Learns from lockdown – the HARBOUR hive
As I write this we’re back in the office – kinda – ish. The office is open anyway, but for the momen...
More quizzical quizzing
Just sharing the joy that is Jared's Quizmastery :) That Was The Week That Was1. This week the damni...
Another quiz @ the HARBOUR Arms
From the quiz master general Jared. Answers will be updated next week :)That Was The Week That Was:1...
We're back in (ish)
Yesterday we started what's likely to be a long process of seeking to reclaim some semblance of what...
What’s a virtual pub without a virtual pub quiz?
Our virtual HARBOUR Arms Friday afternoon get together continues to be a real highlight in our locke...
A game of “House” – No, not the lockdown kind…
Whilst we continue to find ourselves working remotely and adapting to life of working from home, soc...
Keeping things ticking along - and some stepping up
Anyone else kinda done with this already?Having personally self-isolated for about a week before we...
A Covid-19 update from / about HARBOUR
Well - what a place we find ourselves in.rnTo cut to the chase : we're a software business and so we...
GDPR day (Getting Down with Processing things n people Right!)
Today it was time to catch up on GDPR for the HARBOURites - our annual review and re-train to ensure...
A RADical start to 2020
As the January wet weather hung around and we moved beyond Blue Monday, a couple of us had the oppor...
LVing a new launch for Allianz
Just over 4 years ago we were absolutely made up to be launching a double system for Legal & General...
Festive best wishes - for one and all
Well - what a year 2019 has been.A new look and feel for the brand, deciding to show ourselves as HA...
Forum 2019 : Thank you Bristol - you were marvellous
Wednesday 6th saw about 40 HARBOUR clients converge on the Harbour Hotel in Bristol (well - having d...
Forum an orderly queue - we're off to Brizzle
11 years ago we came into being.8 years ago we moved into our first formal office space with our nam...
More than a passing ir35-ritation - you got it sorted?
"IR35 is a word used to describe two sets of tax legislation that are designed to combat tax avoidan...
Legally speaking - this is a much better execution
We started working with Trowers & Hamlins (th) back in 2017. It was our first law firm to work with...
We Dare to Care - a new dawn
We started this business over a decade ago with a clear vision. We understood the ATS market well en...
On our marks - get set - ELDON!
We've always said we're not fans of "out of the box / off the shelf" solutions. Getting to understan...
Why oh why? Boiling it down to our "why"
I;m going to write something for this.
Renewing & seriously upgrading our affiliation with a seriously smart club
Back in the mists of time we had the opportunity to establish an ATS for the Royal Automibile Club....
Never an ugly duckling - but now officially a Cygnet
We've worked with the business that has, for the past few years, been known as Danshell under a coup...
We'd have been barking mad to say no to this client
It's fair to say that there's a fair few of us in this office who are more than a little soft when i...
QUANTUM - a new chapter for HARBOUR
Through this 'ere blog I know I've / we've been notoriously poor at keeping people updated with what...
Where's ya bin?
Why - they're in the corner of the room. LOTS of them. And this week, we have one more to add to the...
Retail Recruitment - a relationship beautifully aged but now with added layers of vitality
Way, way, way back, we built a facility for Majestic Wine. Now this is further back than even this h...
Moving day - it's here!!!
No - REAALLYYY!!!Our time in Maldon draws to a close and today we "haul (collective) ass" up the roa...
the FIRM awards : Best OnBoarding Experience - Suez
OverviewPart of the global SUEZ group, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK employs over 5,000 people acro...
Avalanche of awards
Sometimes you get so swept up in anything you forget to stop and smell the roses (as has been said b...
Mixing things up in job seeking
Just incase you're a client and missed the email from us that set this all out - here it is publishe...
Career opportunities in Bristol are taking off - thanks to HARBOUR
Having delivered the first of a 2-phase execution for Bristol Airport at the beginning of the year,...
NEARLY THERE
#ThatIsAll
GDPR - Gang of Dedicated Programmers Rocking-out!
So everyone totally mind melted in regards to GDPR? Goodness me it's a proper bore isn't it. Still -...
Confirming our Christmas giving outcome
Oooops. Forgot to confirm just what the outcome was of the Christmas Charity donation didn't I :-/ A...
28th Feb 2018 - HARBOUR frozen
so'k - not really. We're still online, but just thought we'd make everyone aware that most people ha...
Christmas wishes & our charity tradition
Just incase you missed it, get yourself over to our Christmas page and help us decide how to divvy u...
Creativity comes in all flavours - inc. coffee
Looks like one of the team fancies themselves as a bit of a Barista, adding the HARBOUR / 3DMC blade...
Local Retail Recruitment - doing new stuff for a long standing client
To date I've not been able to let go of the mantle for updating this here blog with news of what we'...
Spell check is fine - but it's not everything
As an ATS (if you need to ask what that is then you're probably on the wrong site) when we help clie...
Charideeeeeeeee
Each year we opt to not send Christmas cards or quirky gifts and the like, but rather give a donatio...
Client Success - what we do, but with a new champion
As I write this we're now a business of 40 people - and with all those people comes the need to brin...