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Return to the Office: Practices vs. Policy
While companies worldwide are striving to find the perfect balance between hybrid, remote, and in-office models, there is no clear winner when it comes to productivity. According to McKinsey, all working models, whether fully remote, hybrid, or in-person, report similar levels of engagement, intent to stay, and overall satisfaction. The key lies not in rigid policies but in companies' practices to foster connectivity, innovation, and growth.
How to Sell Your SaaS Company to Top Sales Candidates
The SaaS sector is one of the most competitive industries for attracting and retaining top sales talent. With countless companies competing for the same high performers, differentiating your company and making it the preferred choice is critical. Here’s how to effectively position your SaaS company to sales candidates and secure the best talent for your team.
LinkedIn Global Hiring Trends
The last 4 years have been a rollercoaster from hiring surges to mass redundancies, remote working to return to office and back again. The unpredictable talent trends in sectors such as technology have proven challenging for everyone in the industry to navigate.
Making sense of current talent trends can help us predict future trends, including desirable skills, ways to attract talent and ways to boost retention.
LinkedIn recently published the findings of their 2024 Global Talent Trends. The data comes from LinkedIn's Economic Graph, the LinkedIn Executive Confidence Index survey, and the global community of more than 1 billion members on the LinkedIn platform.
How Low-Performing Individuals Impact the Productivity of A-Players
Every leader aims to build a team that consistently delivers exceptional results, especially in highly competitive sectors like SaaS and sales. However, balancing diverse talents within the team can be challenging. High-performing individuals, or "A-players," often carry the heaviest load, innovating, problem-solving, and setting the standard for success.
Transform Your Recruitment Strategy: Stop Relying on Job Ads
If your internal acquisition team are expected to find your ideal candidate through advertising the job alone, they are set up to fail. And if your company is working with a recruiter who advertises the job and boasts about having 3000 applications, you are most likely wasting time and, therefore, money.
The Changing Face of Office Work in London: Insights from Oakstone International
We asked our Divisional Directors and Managing Consultant thoughts on London workers spending less time in the office.
The 10 Core Principles That Drive Oakstone's Success
At Oakstone, we've honed our approach to finding high-performing leaders and creating results-driven teams for our clients. Our success is built on our people and experience, and we maximise effectiveness to deliver exceptional results for both candidates and companies.
How to Hire an External CEO as an Early-Stage Startup
This guide will walk you through the process, from understanding the need for an external CEO to making the final hiring decision.
The Benefits of Using a Specialist Recruiter to Find Talent
Businesses often turn to recruiters to save time and money on talent acquisition, however, a specialist recruiter offers even more significant advantages for sectors with unique skill requirements, such as technology, SaaS and FinTech.
How Can You Optimise Your Hiring Process?
Talent acquisition is a crucial component in driving organisational success. However, the traditional methods of advertising job roles, while providing broad exposure, often result in an influx of unqualified candidates. This inefficiency can be particularly detrimental when hiring for executive-level positions, where the stakes are higher, and the need for the right fit is critical.
Is AI Impacting Your Company Recruitment Experience?
While AI enhances efficiency and decision-making, it can also impact the candidate experience in ways that might not align with your company's values and goals.
Advice from SaaS Leaders: Building Winning Teams as a Start-Up
Start up advice from Fractional CRO and Sales Leader Nick Bareham, Ex VP of Sales at Cyara Perry Gale and Advisor at One Peak Partner Investors Martin Moran.
The Power of Search Firms for Building Go-to-Market Teams
The Software as a Service (SaaS) industry's success hinges on more than just cutting-edge technology; it relies on the ability to build high-performing go-to-market teams that drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction.
The Emergence of the Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
It's not only AI companies which are expanding on the new technologies. Data shows that countless organisations are building out an AI-skilled workforce. That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). Guest contributions from Dr. Andrea Isoni, Guillaume Laport and Dan Hammond Smith.
The Financial Advantage of Fractional Hires
Companies constantly seek innovative solutions to streamline operations and cut costs without compromising productivity. In 2023, we witnessed drastic cost-cutting in the form of global redundancies. However, we are now seeing different strategies being increasingly adopted.
Fractional Chief Revenue Officers: Strategic Growth Guidance
Fractional CROs have emerged as critical players in navigating companies through crucial growth phases.
Oakstone International are witnessing an unprecedented surge in demand for fractional CROs, marking a notable shift in how companies approach revenue generation and strategic decision-making. This surge is a direct response to the increased demand from companies seeking the unique advantages fractional CROs bring to the table and a broader shift towards a fractional way of working.
Executive Headhunters: Who Are They, and What Do They Do?
It is not a secret that executive leadership and talent are needed to spearhead companies’ growth and innovation. Organisations often turn to a specialised breed of professionals known as executive headhunters, recruiters or consultants in this pursuit.
What is a C Level Recruiter? Navigating the Executive Landscape
These high-ranking executives are at the helm of strategic decision-making, and finding the right individuals to fill these roles is essential.
The executive search process to fill these roles is specialised to ensure the right individual is hired, minimising organisational costs and disruption.
Retained Executive Search: Unveiling the Secret to Finding Top Talent
This article will delve into retained executive search and its benefits. We will explore what retained executive search entails, its unique approach, the access it provides to hidden talent, its comprehensive process, and why the fees associated with it are often worth the investment.
When Should You Use a Recruitment Partner?: Building Stronger Teams Together
The secret weapon of many successful companies is leveraging recruitment partners, but why do so many companies with internal talent teams still use recruitment partners, and how can using a recruitment partner help build a strong team together?