Thanks to Shortlister, below is the recipe for the perfect candidate. No one is perfect, but behaviour and attitude is what largely defines an awesome employee/candidate. To find the best available candidate in the market, start by applying an executive search or headhunting techniques. Be sure to keep these personality traits in mind! Takeaways: Passion, drive, initiative…
Category: Talent Acquisition
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Should recruiters be a candidate’s friend? After all, there are no fees if they can’t fill the jobs, so they should treasure you and be delighted to hear from you on any occasion. And what a recruiter thinks of you can make a significant difference to your career prospects, so why do candidates fail to…
This TechTuesday, we are exploring this handy infographic on the online job application process, featuring data from more than 1,000 job seekers and 300 HR professionals. Applying for jobs online can either be a straightforward fast process or an long-winded application nightmare. Companies are continually trying to improve their online application process and the amount of…
Recruiting new staff can be time consuming and costly, so attracting the right candidates who will prove a long-term asset to a business is crucial. Time and time again, however, many recruiters fail to find the right people to work for them, which, in many instances, could have been avoided from the outset. Here are…
Last month I had the opportunity to take part in a training course given to our recruitment consultants. Whilst not a consultant myself, I found the experience to be both fascinating and highly valuable. It covered everything from questioning techniques to the psychology of negotiation and it really helped me to appreciate exactly what a…
Love or loathe the contestants on The Apprentice, there’s no denying that the show is a great source of lessons for recruiters! We look at our top 10 reasons to switch on: The candidates focus on their presentation: Whether the candidates are excellent or, frankly, terrible – they all have one thing in common; they…
Complaints… Complaints… Complaints! Has your job just become the one where you are at the receiving end of every complaint, from employees, from management and even from the CEO himself? If you are the HR manager in your company, then you are most likely to hear more complaints about recruiting. While at one side, unemployment…
Job seeking can be a long and laborious process, and it can sometimes feel like recruiters are on a completely different planet to the one you’re on. But before you hop onto your spaceship and whizz off to Mars, check out this infographic from MedReps.com to get you back on the same page… or planet. Takeaways: There’s…
Do you want to manage your Twitter efficiently? Certainly, everyone wants to build a large audience on the social network. If there’s no-one listening to you moaning about the extortionate prices of Chicken McNuggets at 2 am, what is the purpose of Twitter?! Thankfully, with the help of these three essential tools, managing and building an…