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Talent Acquisition Workplace

Why Redundancy is Not a Dirty Word

There’s a lot of it going around. Maybe it’s happened to you. So you’ve been “made redundant” and you are worried about how to explain that to friends and business contacts, and especially to recruiters and potential employers. After all, who wants to hire someone who is redundant, right? Reality Check #1 – No-one can…

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Talent Acquisition

Are You a 40 Year-old Social Media Virgin?

I love the 40 Year-old Virgin movie.  Scenes which spring to mind: Chest waxing Speed Dating The scarey driving lady on a date The one I totally love is the “just ask questions” scene… Do you know where I’m going on with this? The premise of the movie is that Andy is 40, and has…

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Talent Acquisition

3 Ways to Recruit Using Pinterest

The CV is now a very old fashioned way of understanding what personality and talents a candidate has – nowadays it’s all about Twitter feeds, Instagram photos and Pinterest boards. Pinterest boasts over 12 million users and (according to RJMetrics) is retaining and engaging users as much as 2 to 3 times as efficiently as…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How to Set up a Direct Hire Model

I wrote a blog recently in which I talked about the success of our direct hire model (How In-House Recruiting Can Save You 200k on Agency Fees). As I said quite a lot about how easy it is to do and how much money you can save, I thought I should follow it up with some…

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Talent Acquisition

13 Time Management Tips You Ought to Know

As a small business owner, managing your time and expectations is extremely important if you want to maintain the proper focus. I struggle with this issue and can be easily distracted by a phone call or a tendency to check my emails more often than is probably needed. Time management is one of those skills…