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10 CV Mistakes That Put Employers Off Your Candidates

If your candidate is applying for new opportunities, you need to see off their competition and show that they are the best person for the job. This starts with their CV. Their CV is generally the first opportunity they get to make a great impression and to sell their skills and experience. If it doesn’t…

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6 Ways to Help Your Team Achieve Purpose 

It is important to define what purpose is before trying to explain how to achieve it. According to the dictionary, “Purpose is the reason for which something is done or created, or for which something exists. It is also describes a person’s sense of resolve or determination.” So in short you don’t need it, but…

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8 Things Employees Care About in 2017

When courting an elite candidate, it is imperative not only to understand what other companies may be offering in terms of benefits, but how the benefits you are offering are applicable to the individual who is being considered. A recent study by LendingTree allows recruiters some statistical evidence broken down by gender and age. It…

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Is Your Candidate Persona Based on Fact or Fiction?

If your marketing personas are merely based on conventional wisdom, your content will not reach its potential with the intended audience. Every good communicator follows the cardinal rule: know your audience. On the surface, creating audience personas for your employer or B2B brand seems like a great idea. Creating specific profiles of your audience so…

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3 Reasons Cultural Fit is Important in the Workplace

It is often said that firms want to recruit people with the right attitude and work ethic rather than just a glowing CV. While knowledge of the job is essential, key skills can be learned in-house, particularly at a junior level. But how easy is it to find someone who is the right cultural fit…

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Location, Location, Location (of Your Recruitment Business)

The business rates bill for offices in the city (of London) will rise by £1.4bn, or 33% over the next five years. The British chancellor Phillip Hammond has since announced some relief for those hardest hit by rate rises, but many recruitment businesses will not be able to claim any compensation at all. So, what…

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5 Reasons Your Candidate Should Relocate

If you work for an international company, with offices around the world, you may have advised your candidate to consider not only changing jobs but moving to a completely new country – which could be on the other side of the world from where they are now. There are a lot of considerations they have…

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9 Habits of Every Successful Recruiter

Have you ever wondered why good specialists are sometimes rejected by one company as unprofessional, yet accepted by another as a gem? The “army” of any company hugely depends on its recruiter skills. Some of them have those qualities, others don’t, losing their best candidates without even listening to them. Being a recruiter is a…

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Can Remote Working Grow Your Hiring Pool?

In today’s world, with all the communication you could ever desire at your fingertips, the working environment is a fast changing landscape. Global companies can work in sync with offices on opposing sides of the world. Distance is no longer a barrier in productivity or a hindrance to communication. Unsurprisingly, over the last decade, we…