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10 Life Hacks for Making Recruiting Life Easier

There’s nothing worse than having your Friday ruined by realising it’s only Tuesday. The average person spends 90,000 hours of their life in the workplace. With so much time spent at work, it’s important that you’re happy there. Tuesday’s should be just as good as Fridays. How can you make sure you have that Friday feeling…

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Is Your Startup in Hyper-Growth or Just Hyper-Enthusiastic?

Over the past year, I’ve met many ambitious tech companies in Los Angeles and Vancouver that tend to get lost over the hype, their “thing”, but it’s never as cool as it sounds. Why? I think part of the reason is because, behind every ambitious tech company exists an ambitious entrepreneur, who believes their invention, product, service, app, etc. is the…

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5 Ways to Identify the Right Candidates on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. According to Forbes, it is in direct competition with traditional recruiting agencies and a lot of people will turn to the platform as their first point of call when seeking a new career opportunity. This social network site allows members to share their experience, skills and past achievements on…

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How to Build Trust With Clients and Candidates

Part of the job of a recruiter is to communicate sensitive information from one party to another, which often requires a great deal of trust amongst all those involved. Unfortunately, for legitimate recruiters trust with potential/ first time clients and candidates is often more difficult to establish than for other service providers, due to a general mistrust of…

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7 Tips to Writing an Effective Job Description

Recruiting is a very competitive industry. Writing a good job description is a fundamental step toward attracting the right candidates to applying for one of your job postings, by communicating clearly what kind of individual you are after and what responsibilities and tasks the job entails. Here are some tips on how to write a good…