Ghosting seems to be the biggest growing problem in the recruitment industry, a lot of people talk about it. Just this morning on LBC a lady was sick and tired of being ghosted by companies, recruiters the like on her job search. And truth be told, I am too. Yes, I am a recruiter, I get… Read More
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The Other week, on Linkedin I mentioned a candidate asking me how long should their CV be? You can find the thread OVER ON LINKEDIN What I am discovering with that comment and the few times in the past I have spoken about this. Is that we are trapped in old rhetoric. Such a place is… Read More
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Do we remember our careers differently? do we have a bias that it happened a certain way? and we forget just how we got there?
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We are in a world where (Statistic I heard of BBC news) – there is something like 5 million+ job applications made each month in the UK. That is apparently 1/6 of the working population that is applying for a job at any one time. There is a lot of applications out there… Most get… Read More
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I read an article lately, which I feel from my perspective could be very close to the truth. Only 2% of applications make it to job interview. That’s a small figure. Is this happening to you? Here my thoughts on what to do..
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You have a difficult engineering vacancy. The first agency has not solved it, so you call a second. Then a third. More agencies should mean a wider net, should it not? Sometimes it broadens the search. But for a narrow specialist role, I have seen it do the opposite: the same candidates approached repeatedly, mixed messages… Read More
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To find great people today is getting harder and harder. We as recruiters have many methods in an arsenal to find people – to be fair, it’s our job, it’s what we get paid to do. What we have realised over the years, and thanks to the job websites 1 click applications – The job applicant… Read More
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