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Skills-Based Hiring Is Changing Recruitment

An Applicant Tracking System like Occy helps recruiters manage structured hiring processes, evaluate candidates consistently and make more informed hiring decisions.

Why Customer Support Can Make or Break Your Recruitment Technology

At Occy, we believe great technology should always be backed by great people.

Why Social Media Is No Longer Optional in Recruitment

Combined with an Applicant Tracking System like Occy, social media becomes much more than a marketing channel. It becomes a valuable extension of your recruitment strategy, helping you reach more candidates, strengthen your employer brand and streamline the hiring process.

How Leadership Dashboards Turn Recruitment into a Strategic Function

With an Applicant Tracking System like Occy, recruitment data becomes accessible, actionable and valuable across the organisation.

How to Optimise Your ATS for Graduate Hiring Season (Without Drowning in CVs)

Graduate hiring places intense pressure on recruitment teams due to high application volumes in short timeframes, making it essential to have scalable processes that balance speed, candidate experience, and quality decisions without overextending resources.

Designing Inclusive Products and Experiences: What Actually Matters

Inclusive design is not about good intentions alone — it is about creating systems, products, and experiences that remove barriers and enable more people to participate fully.

Reducing Time-to-Hire in Care Without Lowering Quality Standards

With care providers facing rising vacancies, talent shortages, and increasing demand, the challenge is no longer choosing between speed and quality in recruitment — it’s building processes that successfully deliver both.

Why Candidate Engagement Can Decline in June (And What to Do About It)

With the right hiring technology in place, seasonal challenges can be reduced. In this blog, we’ll explore exactly how.

Why a Strong ATS Needs to Adapt to Your Hiring Structure

A strong ATS isn’t just a database—it needs to reflect how your hiring actually works, not force your team into a rigid process. When it adapts to your structure, it reduces friction, improves consistency, and helps hiring teams move faster without losing control.

How Job Ads Are Competing for Attention, Not Candidates

Job ads today aren’t just competing for candidates—they’re competing for attention in an increasingly crowded, fast-scrolling digital world. In that environment, the most successful roles aren’t necessarily the best ones, but the ones that are best understood in the first few seconds.

How Smarter Reference Checks Can Transform Care Recruitment

Reference checks in care recruitment are often treated as a formality, but they carry real weight in safeguarding decisions. When done properly, they can be the difference between a safe hire and a serious risk.

From Shortages to Solutions: Rethinking Hiring in the Care Sector

The care sector has long been under pressure. Find out how the Occy ATS can transform care hiring for the better.