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The Power of Collaboration with Specialist Recruiters. In the fast-paced world of business, recruitment stands as one of the most critical yet time-consuming processes, but lets face it, hiring can be a burden. The traditional approach often involves waiting for job adverts to run their course before engaging a recruiter, adding unnecessary weeks or even months to the recruitment timeline. However, what if we told you that there is a better way? Enter specialist recruiters!

Year Four – here we come!. Can you believe it? It's been three whole years since we embarked on this wild adventure with Gecko Travel Recruitment, we’ve said it before, but what a rollercoaster it's been!

In the fast-paced and competitive world of the travel industry, where reputations are built on exceptional customer experiences, it's surprising how often companies overlook the importance of providing interview feedback to candidates. Candidate feedback is key for us as travel recruiters, and we are finding that more and more hiring managers are not prioritising this important step in the hiring process, which beyond being a mere formality, can actually help protect and enhance their brand image.

As 2023 comes to a close, we’ve taken some time to reflect on what the year has meant to Gecko Travel Recruitment. In travel recruitment we saw an extremely buoyant year with peaks and troughs, but what was very clear was that confidence is back in the market. Candidates are putting the feelers out and businesses are continuing to invest in their people.

In the fast-paced world of travel recruitment, the mantra "Don't rest on your laurels" has never rung truer. While many companies invest time and resources into crafting their own job advertisements, there's an often overlooked strategy that can significantly expedite the hiring process: partnering with a recruiter from the get-go.

Let's talk about the age-old debate: is it better to swipe right on multiple recruitment agencies or commit to that one special partner?. Spoiler alert: we're leaning towards monogamy in the recruitment game, and here's why.

I'm spilling the beans on my first six months in the recruitment game, and let me tell you, it's been a rollercoaster of emotions, surprises, and a whole lot of coffee. So, let's dive into the highs, lows, and headscratchers of my journey so far....

Gecko Travel Recruitment is 1 year old!. It sure has been a rollercoaster ride getting here, but we are incredibly proud of what we have achieved so far.

Even if you aren’t familiar with the term ‘ghosting’, you’ll have no doubt experienced it. Ghosting originated from the world of online dating and is used to describe a situation where someone suddenly ‘vanishes’ or stops returning your calls, emails or texts. Instead of communicating that they aren’t interested they “ghost”. Ghosting isn’t a new trend—the phenomenon was on the rise before the COVID-19 pandemic and the problem has gotten worse – according to recent research, 1 in 10 UK professionals admits to having ‘ghosted’ a potential employer.

Now more than ever, recruitment is a candidate driven market. The Covid- 19 pandemic forced us all to re-assess and rethink our daily tasks and while it took a while to get used to, many people started to reap the benefits of working from home. There was no daily commute, increased time spent with family and more time to think about how they wanted to continue their lives and what they wanted to achieve.

It is becoming more frequent in todays job market to hear about incredible candidates not being shortlisted for an interview because they are ‘over-qualified’ for the role. This is a bitter pill to take for the candidate (and the recruiter), but surely if the candidate wants less responsibility and a better work life balance, then they’re entitled to this and shouldn’t be judged on the face of their CV as being ‘over-qualified’.

Your potential employer has a lot of job applications to wade through and if you’ve been applying to a number of travel jobs with not much luck, it could be that your CV is getting lost in the sea of other suitable and qualified applicants. In today’s economic climate, we believe that it is still possible to stand out amongst the many job seekers searching for work.

For the past 6 months we have been working incredibly hard to get this point and we are delighted to announce that Gecko Travel Recruitment is now live!. In March 2020 Lucy and I found ourselves faced with the prospect of redundancy when the global pandemic of Covid-19 shook the world.