Every year around this time, many people approach the new year with a sense of optimism and determination, vowing to make a number of life changes and self-improvements. Healthy food is consumed, gym parking lots are full and everyone is at their best. Unfortunately, by late January, most have already fallen off the wagon and…
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January is the perfect time to give your professional life a boost and set career goals for the coming year. Here are 10 of the best career resolutions to make, along with a few actionable tips on how to achieve them: 1. Perform an annual career checkup Before you can set any career resolutions, the…
There is a lot of movement in the jobs market (across the board) at the turn of each new year. It’s not too hard to understand why, either. People spend a whole year grafting away at their jobs, and want a new challenge. Specifically for third party recruiters, December is a fun but long month. With sales…
Recruitment is not the industry it was 20 years ago. I know, because that is when I started in the industry full-time. Two week turnaround times on shortlists, 9-5.30/6pm hours, fax machines the norm, emails and mobile phones just starting to become effective mediums to carry out business. Now it is full throttle – contactable 18…
The weather’s getting colder and wetter outside (excluding you lucky recruiters in the southern hemisphere), but for many of us, the business pipeline is doing the exact opposite and drying up before our eyes! By now we’ve come to expect that December and January are quieter months, as clients and candidates take holidays (how dare they?) and…
This post is sponsored by Technically Compatible. Times have changed. We humans have never been more connected, and yet, never been more closed off. The dawn of technology has opened endless avenues to reach candidates and for a time made all our lives easier. Now, however, the information age has turned into the information overload…
Christmas comes but once a year and for most recruiters than can be a relief. A nice long week or two off and let’s face it, most of the “professional services” world also switches its phone off for the festive period in its entirety. However, this jolly and jovial time of year can have a…
Ahh yes, Halloween. You’re no doubt sick of pumpkins by now, and you can take or leave the awful haunting makeup, but we all know that the pictures of babies in ‘scary’ fancy dress will never get old. Long live infants in onesies. In my opinion, you don’t need it to be Halloween for there to be…
Forget demons and serial killers in masks, recruiters have other things haunting their dreams this Halloween season. From seemingly perfect candidates who completely mess up their interview to clients who are never satisfied, finding great talent means facing some scary things. Check out the below infographic; it shows that 32 percent of American companies are having…