A critical bottleneck in the healthcare recruitment process is the referencing stage, which our independently commissioned research identifies as one of the most time-consuming and challenging aspects of recruitment in the healthcare sector.

Find out about our next-generation platform, “Atom”

Every August the route to and from work gets been brightened by the Copford scarecrow festival

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.

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?

We're delighted to announce that amongst our numbers we can now count a Non Executive Director... click through to find out who ...

‘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.’

Our CEO's perspective on new categorising of what we do and how we do it

The emergence of HCM and advanced HR platforms is changing how organisations of all sizes address their tech needs.

HARBOUR upgraded Healthcare Homes recruitment ATS so they could process all their recruitment activity in one place

We are continuing our long-established approach to donate rather than send cards or gifts

HARBOUR CEO Alex Hens reflects on 2023

Tending to our Connections : Nurturing Growth in a Hybrid Work Landscape : TeamBuilding; hybrid working.

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 Gold's Focus Focus Focus..... Finish blog

HARBOUR and New Look work in partnership to introduce new HMP

HARBOUR's Chief Commercial Officer, Sarah Axcell shares her views on the emergence of AI technology...

Want to improve your company’s DEI? No idea how recruitment tech can help? Let HARBOUR enlighten you…

Do you offer your employees flexible working? We do – and we have a happier, more engaged and loyal workforce to show for it.

Is tech recruitment a good investment? Yes – if it’s user friendly and can be adapted for your growing business needs.

Award-winning law firm TLT needed to power up their recruitment tech with HARBOUR

HARBOUR CEO, Alex Hens announces Employee Share Ownership Scheme

A celebration of 15 years of HARBOUR ATS

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?

Rage-applying is a thing! Discover how recruiters can prevent churn using an Employee Value Proposition that aligns employer values with candidates.

Recruiting during the recession? Discover the ONE thing you need to do to speed up Time to Hire and grab candidates before the competition.

CEO perspective of business change

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! 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? Spoiler alert – the answer is no. But if you want to engage candidates with a more exciting assessment experience read on…

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.

Disabled candidates are an untapped talent pool – so now’s the time for recruiters to make job boards and careers pages more accessible

How our HARBOURites celebrated the platinum jubilee

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

Meet Alex Hens, HARBOUR CEO

From application forms to candidate assessments there’s plenty that recruiters can do to attract neurodiverse talent.

She loves all things recruitment software, talking, brownies and Keanu Reeves – meet HARBOUR’s Chief Client Officer Sarah Axcell

References are mandatory for some organisations. Recruitment technology can take the strain out of chasing them…

From application to onboarding, discover six ways to engage candidates using recruitment software.

HARBOUR ATS join forces with Shortlister to bring you video interviews

Innovating Retail Redeployment & Recruitment

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.

For those of you who know us (and indeed, those that are yet to meet us!), at this time of year we d...

Covid left an already troubled healthcare sector in crisis. How can recruitment software provide emergency relief to bring care workers back again?

Direct Apply Functionality

Our ‘Dare to Care’ is important to us – a vital part of our business is our Client Support and the s...

Not a permanent or even full time addition (he has to go home for a nap in a while), but today we we...

Video games growing up? Tick. Dungeons & Dragons team at work? Tick. Warhammer connoisseur? Tick. Pa...

In any work environment there's a certain amount of person churn. Sometimes it's for the best for bo...

If you’ve ever tried your hand at tiling, you’ll know how much time it takes. You have to plan, meas...

Well. Here we are. Another work anniversary. HARBOUR turned 13 on 27th May. It's been a lot of hard...

Redeployment. It’s a word that’s got quite a sinister aura about it, hasn’t it? Redeployment. It con...

Mental Health at work has been climbing in importance on the business agenda and amongst policymaker...

As we step back towards re-opening life, I reflected back on one of the last crowd events I attended...

The fear of change or changing things is called Metathesiophobia. The origin of the word comes from...

Hands up if you’d like to be 16 again. When I look back to 1988, life was a whole lot simpler. I had...

OTR are a charitable organisation who provide vital mental health support services to young people a...

If you want the ultimate vehicle to keep you and your loved ones safe, I’d highly recommend the FV40...

Something we've always done since we first started trading has been to donate to charitable causes r...

November 12th 2020, in a year of firsts, saw our first (and hopefully only ever entirely) virtual HA...

Lockdowns - video calls - masks - working from (often less than ideal) home situations - isolation f...

Songwriters use it brilliantly, scientists build theories around it and children relentlessly ask it...

Over the years we've described ourselves as something like industry ninjas. We're really very good a...

There are more than 8 million people across the UK living in unsuitable housing. The economic, socia...

Suez have a vision to live in a society where there is no more waste. They believe that waste is a r...

March 2020 will go down in history as one of those times when everything changed. We all changed our...

As I write this we’re back in the office – kinda – ish. The office is open anyway, but for the momen...

Just sharing the joy that is Jared's Quizmastery :) That Was The Week That Was1. This week the damni...

From the quiz master general Jared. Answers will be updated next week :)That Was The Week That Was:1...

Yesterday we started what's likely to be a long process of seeking to reclaim some semblance of what...

Our virtual HARBOUR Arms Friday afternoon get together continues to be a real highlight in our locke...

Whilst we continue to find ourselves working remotely and adapting to life of working from home, soc...

Anyone else kinda done with this already?Having personally self-isolated for about a week before we...

Well - what a place we find ourselves in.rnTo cut to the chase : we're a software business and so we...

Today it was time to catch up on GDPR for the HARBOURites - our annual review and re-train to ensure...

As the January wet weather hung around and we moved beyond Blue Monday, a couple of us had the oppor...

Just over 4 years ago we were absolutely made up to be launching a double system for Legal & General...

Well - what a year 2019 has been.A new look and feel for the brand, deciding to show ourselves as HA...

Wednesday 6th saw about 40 HARBOUR clients converge on the Harbour Hotel in Bristol (well - having d...

11 years ago we came into being.8 years ago we moved into our first formal office space with our nam...

"IR35 is a word used to describe two sets of tax legislation that are designed to combat tax avoidan...

We started working with Trowers & Hamlins (th) back in 2017. It was our first law firm to work with...

We started this business over a decade ago with a clear vision. We understood the ATS market well en...

We've always said we're not fans of "out of the box / off the shelf" solutions. Getting to understan...

I;m going to write something for this. 

Back in the mists of time we had the opportunity to establish an ATS for the Royal Automibile Club....

We've worked with the business that has, for the past few years, been known as Danshell under a coup...

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...

Through this 'ere blog I know I've / we've been notoriously poor at keeping people updated with what...

Why - they're in the corner of the room. LOTS of them. And this week, we have one more to add to the...

Way, way, way back, we built a facility for Majestic Wine. Now this is further back than even this h...

No - REAALLYYY!!!Our time in Maldon draws to a close and today we "haul (collective) ass" up the roa...

OverviewPart of the global SUEZ group, SUEZ recycling and recovery UK employs over 5,000 people acro...

Sometimes you get so swept up in anything you forget to stop and smell the roses (as has been said b...

Just incase you're a client and missed the email from us that set this all out - here it is publishe...

Having delivered the first of a 2-phase execution for Bristol Airport at the beginning of the year,...

 #ThatIsAll  

So everyone totally mind melted in regards to GDPR? Goodness me it's a proper bore isn't it. Still -...

Oooops. Forgot to confirm just what the outcome was of the Christmas Charity donation didn't I :-/ A...

so'k - not really. We're still online, but just thought we'd make everyone aware that most people ha...

Just incase you missed it, get yourself over to our Christmas page and help us decide how to divvy u...

Looks like one of the team fancies themselves as a bit of a Barista, adding the HARBOUR / 3DMC blade...

To date I've not been able to let go of the mantle for updating this here blog with news of what we'...

As an ATS (if you need to ask what that is then you're probably on the wrong site) when we help clie...

Each year we opt to not send Christmas cards or quirky gifts and the like, but rather give a donatio...

As I write this we're now a business of 40 people - and with all those people comes the need to brin...

We are officially RUBBISH at promoting ourselves. There are two good parts to this though:1. it's be...

Not a lot to say really - we said what we felt before. Brexit won. Personally I still think it's dis...

... new record for gap between blog posts? Possibly. Geez - So sorry - how rubbish of me / us. Still...

As time ticks along and we keep adding clients, probably one of the most heartening things is the nu...

We've been going on a bit of a recruitment "splurge" of late, and part of that is looking for a coup...

The world's largest insurance and investment management organisation with worldwide assets of $1 tri...

Believe you me - I get annoyed when I find myself starting blogs "where has the time gone" or simila...

As we head into our 8th year of company existance, there are some things that have become quite embe...

This has been brewing in my angry draw for a little while now, but today saw the opportunity to lanc...

Absolutely incredible effort. We're very proud of you fella! Children's Hospital Challenge from Alun...

This morning one of our client sites was the focus of a sustained DDoS attack. Distributed Denial of...

We like to think we passionate about all we do for our clients - and that goes for whether it's a hu...

January's a bit of a month for broken resolutions - and it would seem that our push last year on upd...

So today was Christmas Jumper Day in work, well it was for us anyway - all in aid of Save The Childr...

A vulnerability called “Shellshock” has come to light that is making the headlines. In the wake of H...

When you’ve been building award-wining homes for 40 years, you’re definitely doing something right....

You may have heard about a vulnerability that's been discovered with some sites that use SSL certifi...

When it comes to what’s important to us in life, our families, our houses and our cars… We make sure...

We love all our clients, but some tug on the heartstrings more than others. So when we had the chanc...

What's grown into a "bit of a thing" for us is that we don't send out Chritsmas cards or the like. T...

It's now a pretty established tradition that we don't send out cards n stuff, but prefer instead to...

so it's Thanksgiving over stateside today and it just so happened that it corresponds this year with...

Last week we held our second ever HARBOUR Forum - this time in Reading. We'll update more on the spe...

I've done quite a few daft things in my life - but this one I'm willing to blog about, because chari...

We're working hard building a great ATS and ensuring we maintain our great level of support, but it'...

Well - not really - 'cos it's not his bike, but he's certainly breaking it in for someone as he's un...

Now there are plenty of things that we should be shouting about in the name of self-promotion, but a...

A month ago it was a great opportunity to 'Do something funny for money' on behalf of Comic Relief....

The reality just hit hard - it's now been over a year since I last blogged. I don't know whether tha...

One day there'll be time to update people on what we've been up to. No really. 'Cos there's loads to...

"Goodness me." As we approach the end of the year at Mach 2 then that's probably the politest way to...

I won't even count up how long we've been waiting for this little launch - but suffice to say we sto...

Things have been busy here at HARBOUR HQ.Hell - things have been REALLY busy! But there's no complai...

We're a small but merry and dedicated band here at HARBOUR HQ. We generally prefer to keep things pr...

No   not mine! This is a request for you to spend two minutes giving a vote to a business of which I...

It's (probably) a little known fact that we share the same rural location (all be it separated by th...

No - this isn't a summary of a mad last weekend, but rather a top line on what we've been up to sinc...

It's odd to think that only a year ago we were approaching the end of year 2 of 3D MarComms and feel...

I'm embarrassed. Horrified and embarrassed.It surely can't have been 8 months since I last wrote on...

OK - so things are busy.Damned busy. You know they (whoever they are) say "it never rains but it pou...

This came up today in a little back and forth on Twitter & got me so agitated that I wanted to air i...

It's all been a bit busy of late, which is why my blogging has been neglected (what? you didn't noti...

With the cherry blossom now thick on the trees and daffs pointing skyward everywhere the change of s...

Two hellos / welcomes from us today. Firstly I'd like you all to meet Amy. “If it seems too good to...

We've just delivered two nice little projects that I thought we should just tell you about - and as...

Someone commented to me before Christmas on how, having won a mile-stone piece of business, they wer...

Towards the end of last year we set about recruiting to expand our development capability (which has...

Before we all get swept up in the New Year we thought we'd just salute an evergreen presence in the...

As we approach the end of the year it is of course generally a time for reflection on the year passe...

It's been a tough couple of weeks (hence the recent silence on here and other social media avenues)...

Are you:nn looking for an opportunity to prove yourself?n interested in getting in early with someth...

One of the things that Alex and Tony told me about 3D MarComms and HARBOUR was the speed at which th...

OK - week 2 and I'm like Johnny 5 in Short Circuit - input, input and more input!  (furrowed brow? c...

Last week I read an article from the Daily Mail (a link I followed I don't hesitate to add) from the...

It's been far too long since I put pad to key in regards to this ere company blog  but hey, sometime...

It's with a great big smile across my face that I can reveal some of the most exciting news for 3D M...

Last Friday we pushed live our ATS product site www.harbour-ats.com.At last we have a proper face to...

Not only is this the question I've heard alot lately as I drove down to South Wales with the family...

OK â“ Iâ™ve been itching for ages to write about what I believe is probably my favourite compa...

We've been on the road for the past couple of weeks telling a lot of people about HARBOUR® - to w...

If you've never come across Sirona Consulting's blog (Sirona Says) but like a regular good thought p...

Well - here we are then.nn1 year - 12 months - 365 days - 8760 hours - 525,948 minutesnnNot exactly...

I recently contributed the following to an ONREC magazine article (if/when I spot it online I'll add...

If you’re a twitterer or read blogs of people who are you’ll almost certainly have com...

It's been a long time coming, certainly from this side of the fence, but HARBOUR is finally at a sta...

My founding partner in crime, Tony, came across this post and whilst the original is very much worth...

If you've popped into this site a few times since we launched it back in the autumn of last year you...

This is pretty much a completely lifted article by Sean Carton posted on ClickZ.com, but I just thou...

I knew it had been a while since I'd got anything written on this ole blog, but could scarcely belie...