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In-house Recruitment versus Engage Recruitment – Do the Costs Stack Up?

2nd Oct, 2025

Engage Executive Talent, launched in 2019 by CO3, offers a values-driven executive recruitment service tailored to Northern Ireland’s third sector. While many charities choose to recruit in-house, often citing cost savings, we wanted to see how the numbers actually stack up. For a typical £50,000 executive role, we estimated the administrative costs of running an…
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Could you be an interim senior executive or CEO?

9th Dec, 2024

Interim Executive Training prepares individuals to work with a Third Sector organisation on a short term basis, helping organisations to either manage a gap in permanent leadership and/or to provide additional support to a Chief Executive and the Senior Management team in times of need. The bespoke training programme is available to Executives who have…
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The Rise of AI in Job Applications: Streamlining Efficiency or Risking Authenticity?

5th Apr, 2024

In today’s fast-paced job market, candidates are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI), reshaping the way they approach the entire recruitment process. With just a simple prompt, AI tools can generate a multitude of documents in mere seconds, including CVs, cover letters, researching interview questions, designing presentations, and drafting email messages. Many are turning to…
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Could you be an interim senior executive or CEO?

17th Feb, 2021

Interim Executive Training prepares individuals to work with a Third Sector organisation on a short term basis, helping organisations to either manage a gap in permanent leadership and/or to provide additional support to a Chief Executive and the Senior Management team in times of need. The bespoke training programme is available to Executives who have…
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ARK Engage boosts board and exec recruitment in housing associations

3rd Feb, 2021

Engage and ARK launch market-leading recruitment partnership Northern Ireland’s leading third sector recruitment agency Engage Executive Talent has partnered with ARK Consultancy to create a radically new and unique talent recruitment service for Northern Ireland’s housing associations. Engage Executive Talent is the recruitment arm of CO3, the membership body for third sector leaders in Northern…
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Attracting the Top Housing Talent with ARK Engage

14th Oct, 2020

As Northern Ireland’s leading third sector recruitment agency, Engage Executive Talent has partnered with ARK Consultancy, the UK’s leading housing consultancy, to create a radically new and unique talent recruitment service for Northern Ireland’s housing associations. We’re celebrating with a Zoom event at 1pm on Wednesday 9 December 2020.  To register for for the event,…
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The effect of Covid-19 on the number of executive candidates

3rd Jun, 2020

Patrick Minne – Director, Engage Executive Talent Two weeks ago I wrote about the effect that Covid-19 was having on the timing of executive recruitment by non-profits.  Since then I have had a number of conversations with charity board members who are trying to gauge the extent to which the pandemic has inhibited the appetite…
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Covid-19: Timing your executive recruitment

20th May, 2020

As many third sector chief officers, senior managers and administrative staff locked their office doors behind them in March and learned a whole new language of videoconferencing and remote team working, many put their recruitment plans on hold.  Apart from wondering about the logistics of how they could conduct interviews effectively, they had understandable anxieties…
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Charity Trustees: What to ask during Covid-19

6th May, 2020

If you’re  a charity trustee at the moment, you might well be asking yourself how the Covid-19 disruption affects your role, and how best you can support your organisation during this stormy time.  Intended just for this period, here are a few pointers to help steer the ship. The first thing to remember is that…
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Videoconferenced Interviews: What you need to know

22nd Apr, 2020

Like most recruitment services worth their salt, Engage has always provided the option of conducting interviews with candidates through videoconferencing.  That option was only occasionally deployed for candidates who were located abroad, and generally was limited to early stage interviews because employers still placed huge importance on being able to gauge personal rapport and chemistry face…
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